
The story of an American family restoring a centuries-old château in rural France and the life they’re building inside it, with a little magic at the edges.
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The stories, detours, and questions we simply couldn’t fit into the YouTube episode.
We sat down to film the story of how we ended up here with a very reasonable plan - thirty minutes, with a beginning, middle, and end. Extremely professio...
For months, we’ve been keeping a secret.
While you’ve been reading these letters, we’ve also been carrying cameras everywhere we go.
Every muddy boot, every impossible renovation, every chicken-related emergency, every dinner around the t...
Last year, we almost didn’t get our château because of the month of August.
Well, that’s not entirely true. The bank wasn’t about to reject our mortgage simply because someone wanted a month at the beach. But when you’re an American trying...
Our apartment in Los Angeles was 500 square feet.
There was one bedroom, four people, and a kitchen with exactly enough counter space to make a small sandwich (provided you committed fully to the sandwich and did not attempt anything else...
France had its hottest day on record, then four more heatwaves, a national water ban, and a swimming pool that missed the entire season.
New here? I’m Kamille. We left California, moved to rural France, and bought a small château in the co...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Kamille writes from rural France, where her family is restoring a centuries-old château one room, and one chapter, at a time. Expect life in France, old-house lore, the renovation diary (minus the gloss), and the stories between the big moments.
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