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Six years ago, Angel and I fell in love

with a derelict 45-room chateau.

This is truly beautiful.

And since then we've spent every spare moment

bringing it back to life.

This is beyond better than what I'd imagined.

LAUGHTER

CHEERING

We've both learnt so much over that time.

Now, we want to use Angel's creativity...

See the vision?

...and Dick's ingenuity...

That is the basis of a bed.

...to solve your design and DIY dilemmas.

We really, really need your help with the sash window

on our first floor landing.

From crafty conundrums...

I want to massage it in

because it creates that lovely fluffiness again.

...to entire room renovations...

...we're sharing our tips and tricks with you...

That is ridiculously solid.

Surprised you? Yeah. Surprised me, too.

...to get the most out of the things you already have...

Oh. Beautiful!

SHE GASPS

Oh, my God.

...and to prove with just enough encouragement...

Honestly, I've a little tear.

We did it, we created a fabric!

It's a thing of beauty. I love it, completely love it.

"Together, we can all make do and mend.

DOG BARKS

As a family we're all about doing things ourselves.

Go on helpers, one side each.

And today we're taking on a very special project.

Oh, look at this dog!

Look, dog, look. See, this is what it looks like to be all groomed.

The newest member of our family, Petale, is due a haircut.

Oh, Petale.

All we're doing is taking out some of the tatties

so Mummy can cut the rest of her hair off.

Cos Mummy's going to pollard the dog.

SHE LAUGHS

Pollard the Petale, that's hilarious.

There's a good girl.

You're mine, you're up.

SHAVER HUMS All right. Good luck.

I'm going... I'm going to just... Oh, there's a good girl.

Arthur, when I first cut your hair, when you was about 11/2...

You were this wriggly.

Even though I spend my life

trying to keep Dick and the kids' hair in check,

Petale comes with her own unique requirements.

I don't know if we're cut out for this job, babe.

What do you think, dog grooming? No.

What do you think? She looks cute!

Your face is looking good, dog, you're done there.

Come on, pups. Come on, I've got her, are you ready?

Ready, freedom!

Oh, no, don't eat your hair, stop it, stop it!

Quickly! No, don't give her a bucket of hair!

Now Petale is groomed to pooch perfection,

it's time to find out how we can help YOU with your projects...

...and we can't wait to get started.

Hello, gorgeous. Here you go, baby. Thank you. Here we go.

No, come here.

Well, nearly.

It's that bit there.

No, that's it, it's done, it doesn't get any better.

It does get better.

Right, OK, come on, what have we got to start with?

Jo and family. Jo and family.

Hi, Dick and Angel, I'm Jo.

My project is something really, really important to me,

and I would love some help from you both.

I was in the loft and I found the most extraordinary set

of vintage photographs of my ancestors,

some of them dating back over a hundred years.

Wow. And the amazing thing about them

is that many of them were actually actors,

and so we have some professional shots of them in costume.

So, this is my great, great, great grandmother.

That is a very special picture.

And this is my very, very dear old nan,

who we lost a few years ago.

And I think she would be absolutely delighted to know

that I was doing something with these photos.

These are the sort of pictures

that I have looked at over the decades and been inspired by.

Now, the story doesn't quite end there

because we've actually also got the family piano

that has been in our family for well over 100 years,

and I'm now the sort of custodian of this piano.

We also have a lovely photo of my great grandmother

actually playing the piano that we now have,

when she was a little girl.

This is going to be a real family project for us.

As soon as my husband and my children saw the photographs

they wanted to make this something for us all to do together.

We just need some help in exactly what it is we're gonna do.

So, this is my husband, AL

THEY LAUGH And this is my daughter, Lottie.

How theatrical is that? And this is my son, Dylan.

And what do we say?

ALL: Please help us Dick and Angel.

Oh, this is me, cos it excites me.

And if you need a hand building anything I'm here.

Yeah, thank you. I might do, because I am thinking of a theatre,

but I'm also thinking about how...

I don't need to know,

I'm going to get headache thinking about where you're going with this,

I can see a full production.

Since moving to the chateau,

I've loved creating unusual and unexpected designs.

From the circus playroom...

...to the butterfly staircase.

Now, I'd like to help Jo set the stage

to achieve something equally memorable with her project,

so I've come to the turret library for a chat.

Hello. ALL: Hello!

Aaw, lovely seeing you all. I have looked over, sort of,

you know, these glamour maidens so much.

And this is my beautiful nan.

Some people don't understand my eyebrows, but actually,

when you look back to your nan,

you'll understand what my inspiration is.

Yes! Sorry guys, I know it's not what you thought

we'd be talking about, eyebrows.

Now, I'm notjust picturing a wall of photographs.

I can see a pattern that we could create maybe a wallpaper,

or some fabric, and it would be so unique

to you and your family.

Oh, my word! This one piano has been owned

by every single person in the photos.

So, the baton's now been handed to me

to preserve this amazing history.

You're going to take the baton

and get all of the relevant photographs scanned.

Then we can put that into a design that you like.

This is just amazing. Thank you so much. You're welcome.

Take care of yourselves, we'll speak to you very, very soon.

ALL: Bye!

What do you think of this project?

I love it, The fact that it's the whole family,

it's going to be really, really nice doing it with them.

As soon as Jo and family come back to me

with all their scanned photos,

we'll get creating something truly magical.

That's Angel in her happy place, now time for mine.

HE WHISTLES Come on, pups. Come on.

Over the next few weeks we're also going to be doing

our own projects here at the chateau,

and I'm embarking on my passion project in the walled garden.

The garden not looking too bad at all.

And while I'm passionate about the produce we grow...

WQW!

...there's one aspect I'm not so keen on, nasty pesticides.

So, I'm looking at ways to preserve our veg using nature.

We plant carrots between leeks,

because carrot flies don't like the smell of onion.

All in all, we're using nature to help us, as opposed to fight it.

And that's why we're thinking,

let's bring nature into the walled garden instead ofjust cultivation.

We need a pond.

By creating a pond, I want to attract

a variety of natural predators like frogs, toads and dragonflies

who will give our veg munching pests their marching orders.

This is a good place for it.

Are you happy, darlinEl? I'm really happy.

I'm going to grab the tractor,

and I'm literally going to start scraping.

COCK CROWS Go and lay an egg, you lot.

I'm going to get my tractor.

SHE LAUGHS That is so tight!

Not much room for space there! There is not much room!

SHE LAUGHS

That's better.

I am now going to start making a hole here.

For the pond, I want a mixture of environments.

Deep bits so friendly beasties can survive the winter,

but lots of edges for plant life.

A good old-fashioned oval should do it.

It's a really, really lovely shape.

I actually sort of saw it as being like an oval.

It feels like it hugs this part of the garden. Right, OK.

It's nice. So, a little bit more and keep it as a kidney shape. Yeah.

Is that you agreeing with me, seriously? Yeah.

I was always going to do that anyway.

I made that up.

HE LAUGHS

As my pond is somewhat bigger than a paddling pool,

I'll be doing it in stages,

so I'll be returning to my now kidney-shaped pond later.

But first, we're back in the dining room

and raring to go with another request.

Who've we got now? Right, now.

Hello! My name is Erik.

OK, what were you gonna say? I love their kitchen!

Kate and Erik, coolest kitchen ever.

Oh, wow.

We feel your pain.

Wow! That is an original feature

that I would have bought that house for.

We were hoping that Dick could actually help us

with the actual sash mechanism, that's become threadbare.

Oh, that's quite threadbare.

That's the sash cord, and that can be redone.

Sash windows, everyone thinks

you would be struggling to get them up and down.

A well-engineered sash window,

you should be able to move with your finger.

It's the balance of the weights

and everything else, that's going to be fun.

It would.

OK. It is big enough to create something quite special, definitely.

And the sash window, darling, that's, that's...

That'll be me. That is totally you. OK, happy with that.

Right. All doable. All doable.

And also, it did make me think of a lot of our windows.

I know, I've still got lots of windows to do, I know.

It's on my list, where's my list?

It's hanging up from the top of the chateau.

I still have my list.

Finishes in the kitchen! SHE LAUGHS

Even on the sunniest, most peaceful days at the chateau...

...there's always a job to do.

But no matter what, we've always got time for your projects.

We're firing up the laptop to meet Kate and Erik, who have asked for

help renovating their stunning sash window

on the first floor of their family home,

where they also want to create an unexpected living space.

And with such a stylish couple, I'm not leaving anything to chance.

Oh, there I am. This is as far as I go for getting ready.

Hello! How are you?

I like your kitchen, who's the cook? Right.

Are you the man whose designed it then, Erik?

Come and say hello to my girl for a second.

Come on, say hello, say hello.

Hello! Oh, it's lovely to see you.

I am going to be around, and we're going to be doing

some work together as well,

but you've got to get it working, so this is your man.

Anyway, speak to you later. Take care.

OK, see you in a bit. Bye!

Have you ever done up a sash window? No.

It's actually really, really satisfying.

When you fix a sash window, you know the little hooks

that are on the bottom of it,

you should be able to put your fingers in

and make it go up and down like this.

That's the way a sash window should work.

Sash windows work using a cord which runs through a pulley.

Hidden in a pocket at the side of the window, each cord is attached

to a sausage-shaped weight which is perfectly balanced.

When the window is pushed up, the weights come down, and vice versa.

On your window see if you can see all the components.

Are the pulleys in good condition?

What bits of wood are in good condition,

what are not in good condition?

You want to get in there, be a little bit brutal with a screwdriver

and see what is soft and what is good.

I will then take you through the principles

of getting to the weights.

It's super exciting.

And what's more, doing it yourself makes it really quite special.

It does, yeah.

When you use your fingers and open up your window,

do you know what's going to happen?

You're going to smile.

Go and find out how your window works, see ya! Bye, bye, bye!

We're not shy of a window here at the chateau,

in fact we have 58 in total.

Don't even start me on the cleaning.

But would you believe not one of them has a sash?

Right, wife. Are you ready? Yeah, I'm ready, I'm filming.

So, in order to show Kate and Erik the ropes,

or rather how to find them, we've had to build one.

And Angel is filming this little how-to guide just for them.

Here we go, important bits, the window,

this window is held in place

by beading behind and beading in front.

OK, that's beading, which is just rails

that the windows just go up and down. OK?

When you open the window, this is how it should be.

You usually have here inside the frame something called a pocket,

and that would just be a piece of press-fit wood

that goes into the side so

it can be pulled out if you have to do anything with your weights.

Having stripped the paint off, I need them to take off their beading.

We need to get something in here to get it moved. See, see?

And the worst thing is because this has just been made

the beading is quite well attached.

Faint heart never won fair maiden, when it comes to this.

Beading off... Look, this is a window.

What we're going to do is,

cos we don't want these things to drop down,

we're gonna take these and we're gonna just cut them off.

Just put the big knot in first.

So, there we've got a window. We've got our bits of beading.

These will have to be replaced with fresh,

and by the time they've got to that, inside the pocket,

off comes the weights, it all falls out,

and you've just got a table that looks a bit like this,

full of all the detritus that once was a beautiful window.

How do you know all of this?

Trial and error, and having done it badly a lot of times.

SHE LAUGHS

A few days ago, I gave Jo and family the task

of selecting some of their theatrical family photographs

with a view to making a very special repeat,

or if you want the techy term, tessellated pattern.

First, they had to gather all their favourite pictures,

then photograph and scan them into the computer,

before finally making a start on their design.

This is where we've got to so far with the mock-up,

which we are going to play around with

to see whether we need to rearrange them,

some bigger than others.

The family have put together a basic design for their pattern,

but the trick is to make it repeatable.

Tessellated patterns are one of my favourite things.

Their purpose is to eliminate gaps and hard lines from the pattern,

and I've used them throughout the chateau in fabrics and wallpaper.

What I want to showjo is actually repeating a square

or any shape is fine, but when you stand back

you're always going to see whatever shape it is,

and I want to show her how to blur the lines,

cos, you know, it's really simple, but it's quite clever.

Now, I've got I've got loads of photos.

Mr Strawbridge, always down memory lane,

lots of lovely photographs here.

And the best way to explain is to create a pattern

using our family photos, which I've already copied and printed.

I'm just going to mask up the table

so I just know I've got an exact shape, so...

I think first of all I'm just going to put loads of photographs

around the place, I think that is what Jo and the family

have already done so far.

That's Arthur in a suitcase, look how gorgeous he is.

That's when we found the chateau. Oh, our wedding.

Look at that gorgeous lady, how lucky am I?

SHE CHUCKLES

What I'm going to do now I've got the main part

of my rectangle in place,

I'm going to start cutting up the photographs downwards,

down the sides and across ways for the top and the bottom.

So, to blur this line, my left hand part of the photograph

on this side, and then this part, is going to go over here.

I think this one is really clear,

because it's me and Arthur,

and you'll really understand the principal of it.

Part of that picture is now going to go all the way up.

Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo...

...to wherever you meet your top line. Yeah, there we go.

And when you join two together we get a whole bit of Arthur.

By placing the two halves of me and Arthur

on opposite ends of my template,

and repeating that process down the other edges,

I'll achieve my seamless repeat pattern.

This is pretty much there,

I am going to have to recreate this digitally

because I want to make sure I've got the lines,

but come take a picture of it so I know what I'm doing.

To remember it. Yeah, to remember it. So, it looks like this.

That's a lot of the history of the chateau in that pattern.

So simple, as well, to do.

And the options are endless, from wallpaper to fabric,

cushion covers to curtains, the only limit is your imagination.

We're catching up with Kate and Erik

to see how they've been getting on renovating their sash window.

Aaw! SHE LAUGHS

That is such a statement window.

SHE LAUGHS

Comes off easy, isn't it?

And...

Here we go. Right.

Wow.

Wow.

Yeah.

So, we've removed the beading and the window from this side,

and we can only find one,

so, I don't know if it's just meant to be like that,

if it's just one on the right-hand side, and two on the left-hand side,

or if one's gone missing.

I don't quite understand the mechanism they've got there,

I think we need to give them a call.

Sash windows work using weights that are perfectly balanced,

so, I suspect there must be a fourth weight hiding in there somewhere.

Time for some exploration.

So, go up to there and try pulling it,

go up and pull it to the left, let me see. Does it move?

It's moving, and it's really heavy.

So, there is something attached to this rope.

Get back in that pocket with a torch and a little mirror.

What are you doing? You're just teasing me, you are!

I've got it now. There it is. Oh.

There's a weight here, as well.

The missing one, it's found. OK, good.

That is one of the original beauties of this thing.

They are made of lead, aren't they?

No, not necessarily, most of them are cast iron.

Is it not all rusty and horrible?

No, no, no, the way you're holding that, that's not lead,

you're going to reuse those again, without a shadow of doubt,

you could put a rust cure on it, you can make it very pretty.

But nobody's going to see that for the next 200 years.

It doesn't matter. It's like wearing nice...

Underwear. ..underwear!

THEY LAUGH

Do you know what I would do? Let me just speak for a minute!

I would, with a little brush and some gold,

I would then write names, your children's names, the date,

I would just put something really nice on it,

and put it behind the pocket, knowing it's there.

Listen, take care you two, lovely to speak to you.

Take ca re.

5Y9. bye. 5Y9. bye.

I've got work on my bye.

I think I've lost my wave.

SHE LAUGHS

Actually, that does sound kind of cool.

Jo and family are perfecting their repeat pattern,

which will be printed onto fabric.

And luckily Dad's a whizz on the computer.

So, it's just trying size and scale and move things around

so that they all fit.

So, yeah, sorry, son,

I'm going to have to give you a bit of a squish.

I'm back outside with my best workers

for the next step of my pond project to lay the liner.

Can I help? OK, yeah.

SHE SCREAMS HE LAUGHS

What could possibly be difficult about building a pond

with a six and an eight-year-old in the mud?

UP, "P, "P, UP, up, up, up, good.

Hey, hey, hey, team, I think we need to push this in a little bit,

and to do that, Arthur, can you sit?

I can't believe I'm doing this.

Just slide down there, I just want to see if there are any big bubbles.

You come over here too, Dorothy.

Slide down, slide down.

Oh, gosh, this is fantastic.

Push it down gently, slide around on your bums,

I'm just making sure there's no big air gaps under there.

I think we're nearly ready

to go and get on with trying to harvest some rain.

I think you may have to do that solo. Yeah, I might have to.

I'm going to make you a cup of tea. Yeah, right.

With weeks of work still left to go on Dick's project,

Jo and family are nearing the end of theirs,

and I can't wait to see the results.

So, we have received our fabric.

Look at that!

So, here is our fabric all printed out.

I actually can't see now which ones we cut in half even.

All the edges feel all blurred and it looks fantastic.

Yay! We did it! We created a fabric!

I really didn't think we would be doing this

when I found those photos in the attic.

It's just amazing. Wow! How special is that?

Hey! How are youse?

Really good. We've moved to the piano.

Of course, I would expect you to be nowhere else.

Are we ready 9W5?

Three, two, one... Go!

Oh, wow! They look amazing!

You know, it's not just a design,

I think this is what is just so beautiful about this project,

is the fact that every single person has played on that piano.

So, uh, I'm well chuffed to see how you've enjoyed it,

and how brilliant you've been at it as well.

It has been wonderful, and you know,

I'm spending so much more time now in this room,

you know, with all these things, and, yeah, playing the piano again.

And with plenty of fabric left over,

Jo and family have even been able to make some cushions

to create a totally unique room.

I feel like there's going to be

other designs, tessellations happening.

SHE LAUGHS

Take care, so lovely.

Bye, mwa h, mwah.

I don't want to go! Bye! You hang up first!

SHE LAUGHS

DOG BARKS

Inspired byjo and her family's incredible vintage photographs,

I've got a plan for our piano stool too.

We're going to cover this today.

Little piano seat.

Complete with a repeat pattern of all our photos.

It's a picture of all of us!

That is absolutely stunning.

Right, I am not a million miles off.

Are you ready? Put it down, and watch this.

Here we go, look at that!

Arthur, put it on. Wow!

It's quite special.

Does the stool with our faces on it

make your bum more comfy so you play better?

Does it make YOU play better? Here we go.

DISCORDANT NOTES

THEY LAUGH

HE BABBLES

THEY LAUGH

It's all go at the chateau.

And now I'm looking to channel nature

to make my eco-friendly pond in the walled garden.

My pond liner is down and now I need to fill it with rainwater.

And I want this in here.

This bit here goes up here like that.

Right, on there. Oh, it just fits and no more.

Chickens don't like snakes, and they don't like hoses.

While we wait for rain,

we're back in the dining room for another request.

Susanna and Luke.

BOTH: Hi, Dick and Angel.

My name is Luke.

And I do not.

SHE LAUGHS Oh, Luke.

He got exactly the same head rub as you when you're feeling, "Oh..."

Oh, that's so charming.

I reckon Luke's just doing that thing that thing you do

where you pretend you don't like something.

Right, OK. We have an Imelda Marcos here.

I can completely understand obsession with shoes,

I have bought vintage shoes from the 1940s that don't fit me

and I've got them in my dressior because I love them so much.

Just need as much advice as possible for it, please.

I think this is a challenge for me.

I mean, it's a challenge,

but I also think that you're going to want to have a big say.

You're sitting looking at the shoes.

I'm looking at the problem, not the shoes.

You just work out the problem,

I'm going to look at the shoes, they are really nice, I'd wear them.

Modernising the vintage wardrobe to showcase Susanna's shoes

is going to require an ingenious storage solution,

so, I'm catching up with Susanna and Luke in our kitchen.

Oh, hello.

Hiya!

Listen, lovely to meet you.

And it's good, you're in front of your wardrobe.

We are, yes. How old is it?

OK, that's making it 100 years old. But the thing is, it's quality.

It's something that's going to stay and exist for a very long time.

We have to protect that.

Sorry, Luke, fact of life, matey, get over it.

I know, I know my dream of firewood is over.

Now, what we have to do is we have to make it

so it really is useful for you.

Now, have you guessed where I am, by the way?

Oh, Susanna's getting her glasses on!

I'm in the service kitchen.

And the reason why I'm in the service kitchen

is because we have lots of storage solutions in the kitchen,

and if I do this, which, look, see the slidey in and out things

coming in and out there? See? Yes.

If you come across to the corner, you see there turning-roundy things.

All of these things have been designed

by bigger brains than mine, and they've actually just found ways

of getting the most out of the storage.

Now, how many pairs have you got in there at the moment,

just to make sure we're talking the same?

30, OK. What I want is an accurate drawing

of the floor of the wardrobe, and I also need the height,

and I need to come up with an answer for you

that is going to allow you to sort of make the most of that space,

and I think there will be spare space afterwards

which means you're not limited to 30 pairs of shoes forever.

THEY LAUGH

See you. Bye, bye, bye.

I'm loving this project, this is right up my street.

There's quite a lot of shoes there.

I think 30 is pretty acceptable actually.

HE LAUGHS

As soon as Suzanna and Luke get back to me with the information I need,

I can make a start turning Granny's wardrobe

into a Shangri La for shoes.

Kate and Erik asked Dick for help renovating their sash window.

Since then, following Dick's advice,

they've been hard at work stripping and sanding.

Fixing sash windows is a skilled job, but with the right knowledge

it could save Kate and Erik thousands of pounds.

I think a lot of people would think, rip all out.

Get a man to come and give you double glazing.

That's the easy answer. But look what look what they're saving.

Oh, yeah. Oh!

Wow.

Yeah, I love it.

Yeah.

Oh, gosh, that's just... You just love that, don't you?

I just love it. Yeah.

That, that'll be there, the last time those were out

could have been a hundred years. I know.

Oh, that's just lovely. I love it.

They've put so much prep work into this now,

I want to make that place work for them and to be comfortable.

I take it you've got a cunning plan?

Yeah, I've always got a cunning plan.

To furnish their landing Kate has bought two Bentwood rocking chairs,

and that's reminded me of my own rocking chair

that I used to nurse Arthur and Dorothy,

and it's somewhere up in the attic.

# Dun-dun-dun-dun! #

It is lovely but I want to make it a bit more cosy.

Comfortable. Comfortable, yeah.

Do you want a hand carrying that? Yes, please, it's quite heavy.

It's a solid old piece.

To upgrade Kate's chairs, I'm going to show her

how to make a cushion cover based on an antimacassar.

An antimacassar is something that goes on the back

of the sofa or a chair, to stop the sofa getting dirty.

But actually, what we're going to do is be inspired by that,

and actually just create a lovely 'umptious cushion

just to make it really comfortable.

A comfy cassar. Comfy cassar. OK, let me lay this down.

This is just wallpaper that I'm never going to use.

You're going to draw round that, aren't you? I can feel it.

I am going to draw around this.

So that's going to be my back.

Time to cut.

Right, this is a bit of a binding.

You can buy it already made up,

but this is just a homemade one with a bit of your garden twine.

HE GASPS That's where it went to!

Right, I'm just going to whizz this round now.

I'm using an off-cut,

but Kate can use any material she likes, even old curtains.

Here we are. So, we have the start of this.

Ooh! I can see what is.

So, now I'm gonna put my quilting bits in, get myself stuffing.

How are you going to stop the stuffing escaping, wife?

I have got to sew it, and then put the back on as well.

Right, let's just see. Turning it.

# Dun, dun, dun! #

Hold on.

Was that made on purpose, ladies and gentlemen?

Oh, isn't that comfy? Up you get, get off it.

Let me film you, let me film you.

That looks like a really comfy macassar.

I'll check in later with Kate to see how she gets on

making her own comfy macassar,

but now it's time for Dick to get an update from Luke and Susanna.

So, Dick has asked me to do some measurements.

Wow, that's a drawing. Right.

Good plans, good measurements, all right, all the information I need.

The challenge is giving Susanna access to all of those easily.

OK, I think I need to get myself a bit of a template done.

Right, my immediate thought process is let's have shelves

that can come outside to view the shoe, yeah?

I like that. And go back in, shut the door.

Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum... Stacked up. Yeah.

Now, I started looking around

all the bits of plumbing and pipes I had.

Show you this, put it on it, here we go.

Just to stop everything moving, so I need two screws.

If I was to put a piece of pipe on there...

...this gives me a way of stacking things.

Once you've got one done, that's a template, isn't it?

Darling, hahaha! She's with me.

Look at this, watch,

put this here, happily in, now see.

That works.

This bit here is going to limit how far out it comes,

to there, and then it goes back in to there, and it sits there.

And by the way, the separators can make as many as shelves

as he wants to put in there, OK? It's great.

Honestly, I think it's going to be game changing.

Great, and now you've got a pole in your workshop.

I'm just looking for a dancer.

Kate and Erik have really worked hard renovating their sash window,

but this project was also about creating a family space,

and I've got some ideas.

I've kind of been trying to get a vision

of what it's going to look like, so let me send you this now,

because it would be really nice to know, sort of, you know,

if there is anything else we can help you with.

So, guys, I'm going to send this over to you now.

There it is.

SHE GASPS Wow.

Wow.

I have just tried to stick with what I know you like,

and just put all the bits together.

That's crazy.

And the Martini glasses as well.

That looks amazing, Angel. Absolutely stunning.

That is very, very sweet of you to say, Kate.

And have you got a Martini glass?

No, we need to source that!

Things are really coming together for Susanna's old wardrobe

and it's great to see Luke putting the plan into action.

Beautiful.

Huzzah.

Plenty of room for two pairs of shoes on there,

you'd get a third pair on there.

Next thing I'm going to see is it completed.

But not before I have a little chat with Susanna,

because I've got some ideas

that will really personalise this project for her.

You always talk about your shoes having memories

and telling stories, and I was just thinking about shoe trees,

because whenever I bought an old shoe,

they always come with these gorgeous shoe trees.

I've just got to show you a few here.

They're just so gorgeous, aren't they?

If you did start collecting

and having some shoe trees in your shoes,

maybe your mum's shoes, shoes with special memories,

I kind of like the idea

that we could potentially decoupage them with some photographs,

or you can write little stories on the shoe trees as well?

It doesn't matter, this is indulgent,

you have a whole wardrobe dedicated to your shoes. And why not?

When we moved out to the chateau,

I just had so many lovely heels. I was always in heels.

I can't remember the last time I wore a heel!

So, your shoes also reflect where you are with your life.

I can't wait to hear the stories.

THEY LAUGH

It's an exciting time for our projects...

...as Kate and Erik...

...and Susanna and Luke...

I'm on the last two.

...are seeing all that hard work start to pay off.

And those creative touches can now be added.

Even my pond has come on.

There you go, the water's coming through.

All the water from the roof

has collected through the butt and come out here for free.

But with loads still to be getting on with,

we'll be coming back to my pond project another time.

I've got the mirror, Susie.

A few weeks ago, Susanna and Luke came to us

looking to turn her grandmother's old wardrobe

into a shoe storage show-stopper.

And now for the big reveal.

I am very excited.

Hahaha, look at that!

Good job, good job.

Yeah!

It was a joint effort, yeah.

It was a joint effort, completely.

Job well done, let's see if they're happy, shall we? Yeah.

That's beautiful.

We had shelf envy, you see. Luke, do you like your cupboard?

I love it!

ANGEL LAUGHS

You two have done an amazing job there, by the way.

Luke, respect when it comes to the DIY,

and all those bits you've done there.

The principles you got straightaway,

and what you've turned it into is amazing.

But it's not until you've put the paint on,

and do all the little touches,

which are incredibly important,

and actually bring every project to life.

SHE GASPS

That's so sweet, sorry.

Listen, life's about that,

and those memories and things there are not in your loft anymore,

it's somewhere you go to most days. You know what I mean?

And that's what it's about, we surround ourselves with things

and we use them, and we remember them,

as opposed to tucking them away.

Kate and Erik were looking to transform an unused space

into an unexpected family area.

So, with high expectations,

we're on our own landing for a final catch up.

Right, let's see how they go on.

Wow, wow, wow. Not bad, huh?

That's amazing.

They must be pleased with that.

It's breath-taking. Look at those chairs.

Oh, look at the cosy macassars,

they've done such a good job on that.

It's just them.

It's contemporary, yet actually full of vintage character.

Watch, watch, watch, look at this... Watch...

Oh, look at you, one finger!

SHE LAUGHS Well done, Erik.

THEY LAUGH

Let's give them a call,

let's give them a call, and tell them how clever they are.

Hello! Hiya, how you doing? Look at that family.

The two of you working together, and getting that done,

it is phenomenally good, that looks stunning,

and is going to look stunning for years and years and years and years.

So, well done. Thank you so much.

It's so Kate and Erik's style, I just, honestly...

Thank you so much.

Oh, I've loved it.

It's just a gorgeous space,

put the kids to bed and have a nice gin and tonic tonight to celebrate.

Well done, well done. Great work. Well done.

Smile lots as a family, as well. Take care.

See ya! Bye' bye' bYe, bye!

If you mention getting a sash window here...

Actually, a sash window is a really good idea now, isn't it?

You can't reach it.

That's good. We're safe, we're safe.

SHE LAUGHS

Next time...

Action!

...we tackle caravans...

I think she'll probably be able

to get her entire caravan done for 20 quid.

...get creative with calendars...

Solid copper posts. Oh, look at that!

...and help bring the inside out.

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