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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've imagined.

Ooh! HE LAUGHS

THEY CHEER

We've both learned 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

in our first floor landing.

From crafty conundrums...

I want to massage it in,

because then it creates that lovely sort of fluffiness again.

...to entire room renovation.

I'm going to get stuck in and get the walls painted.

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 have 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.

HE LAUGHS

Come on, you can do it!

Come on!

We love projects of all sizes here at the chateau.

And a few weeks ago I took the plunge to make a wildlife pond

filled with rainwater in the walled garden...

Slowly and steady, because otherwise it slops.

...and today it gets its first inhabitants.

Frogspawn.

What we're going to do is we're going to pour slowly,

and then there's going to be a couple of "blups",

and the blups are the jelly coming out, OK?

Slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly.

Look, I see an alive one!

Blup! Oh! Look - we've got things living in our pond,

and we haven't finished building it yet!

And speaking of unfinished...

How many have we got? Somebody count them. Oh, oh...!

LAUGHTER

There's a hole there, I've dug a hole there to plant the plants in.

As it turns out, it's been dug especially for our new shrub...

I did...

...but first we have to get it in.

Arthur, go and get me the wheelbarrow that's over there.

OK? Mind the hole.

Come on. Careful.

It's only a tree!

Look, you can do it, it's a big tree.

That's good, that's exactly where I wanted it.

We're planting a treelike shrub called broom

for shade and to attract insects to my pond.

Perfect. Right!

There's going to be lovely yellow flowers on it, lots of bees on it.

Does it look part of our pond?

Yeah. It looks like it is meant to be there.

Now that our plans are taking root...

There you go.

...it's time for us to help you with your projects.

There's an awful lot of emails.

More than ever.

The thing I like about this is, of course, that everybody else is busy!

Hi, Dick and Angel. My name's Lexie

and I'm currently in the process of renovating my first home,

and I have a project

that I would really love you both to help me with.

It's a very dusty old coal cellar.

Wow. Love it!

That's a good space.

It is.

The intention is for the space to be kind of a speakeasy... Yes!

...1920s style bar

where I can have a bar and movie area for friends and family.

So, please help me turn my dingy, dark, miserable cellar

into somewhere that's emulant of that old Hollywood vibe.

I'm quite excited by this.

Whenever I used to go to something that resembled a speakeasy -

no, I don't mean it was illegal drinking!

I am listening here! No!

Just thinking... No, there's a lot, you know...

When I was being a crusty army colonel,

you were off going to speakeasies.

No, but I have been to lots of bars in the arches and in basements

that have been inspired by that era,

and what I want to do is kind of get into Lexie's mind

and see where she's going aesthetically.

I've just written down, "Damp proof, electricity and lights."

And I've written down, "Cosy, mirror, red curtains."

Originating in 1920s America during Prohibition,

speakeasies were nightclubs that sold illicit alcohol

and were often to be found underground -

and I know just where to find inspiration for Lexie's project,

The chateau's boudoir.

This room was always a very, very dark room,

and, actually, the light in here

inspired the way that I was going to go with it,

and I've gone for blacks and burgundies and golds,

and greens, actually, as well.

But before I get too carried away,

I need to check that Lexie's got the same vision.

Hello, darling! Hello!

Lexie, I squealed when I saw your project.

I mean, a speakeasy!

Yeah. There's something about it being in your basement

that's just quite exciting. Yes. Yeah, yeah, definitely!

Well, let's just start on the feel.

So, in terms of colours, I'd like it to feel quite rich down there.

I think that's that, kind of that era. Yeah.

So, it's deep greens or reds or things like that.

Really opulent. Yes.

And glamorous. Yes.

And what elements do you specifically want?

A bar. Yes.

Seated? Yeah.

Seated, yeah, definitely, with that back brick space.

Are you looking to have a cocktail cabinet... Yeah.

...or are you thinking that your coal chute,

that that becomes your cocktail cabinet?

That's a great idea.

I'm really getting into, "Where are we gonna put our cocktail sticks?"

I probably won't leave, by the way.

I'll go down there - l'lljust go down there.

Now I know the vision... Yes.

...there's some details that we need from you. Yeah, of course.

Have you got anything around the house

that you think would be exactly right for this project

that we could utilise?

Hmm, I'd have to go on a bit of a hunt, I think,

and see what's...what might work with the colours and the feel. OK.

Even if you've got cocktail shakers, you know, pineapples,

any of these little bits that you think are going to go down

and I'm going to start creating that room. Wonderful.

Honestly, I don't know if I'm more excited than you about this!

Right, we will speak very soon.

Thank you. I'll do my homework. Thank you. Bye, darling. Bye! Bye!

Have we got anywhere that could be...? N0. N0? N0. N0.

Before you - we can't have a speakeasy in our cellar.

Don't even think about it.

While Lexie raids her home for Art Deco inspiration,

I want to check on the frogspawn we introduced to the pond.

Right, come over here, look.

Tell me what you can see.

Look at the little tiny tadpoles!

Oh, there's one! There's one swimming!

Those tadpoles are going to get bigger and bigger and bigger,

and then gradually they're gonna grow legs and become little frogs.

There must be thousands in there.

When these come out, what do frogs eat?

Slugs. Slugs. What do slugs eat?

My lettuce!

So, every one of these frogs are our friends.

When we get, like, an actual frog, I'm going to keep one as a pet.

Well, Arthur should be spoilt for choice.

We'll check in later on our pond project

to see how Mother Nature settles in.

But for now, let's head inside for another one of your requests.

Who have we got? This is... Mandy and Paul. Right.

Hi, Dick and Angel.

I'm Mandy...

...and we live here in Shetland.

They don't sound like Shetlanders.

I have no idea what croft is.

Crofts are basically like smallholdings,

but it's usually, you have to have animals and grow things.

It's like a way of having self-sufficiency on a bit of land.

They've made a decision to come to an area with a croft

and live differently. Yeah. That's a huge decision.

That is stunning. Oh, I love it!

Being an old croft house,

it's only one room thick,

so, if we have guests coming to stay,

we have to walk backwards and forwards past them,

obviously, while they're in bed.

You can see that this is the walk through for our bedroom.

So, we need to be able to access

through the door we've just come through

in order to reach the bathroom.

We looked at a couple of chateaus, and they had amazing frontage...

Yes. ..but there were one room thick,

and it's like they old sort of idea if you go from one room,

one state room through a door to the next state room,

through another door to the next state room...

That's because that's the easiest thing to do.

Before we come up with any suggestions for them,

I think we need to get a style head in there, understand what they want,

and then we'll come up with the technical bits, yeah?

Completely, completely agree.

Although the chateau is huge,

it has all sorts of unusual nooks and crannies,

as well as some simple yet effective room divisions...

...and we are joining Mandy and Paul at one of them.

Hi!

I'm going to tip you up here.

Watch, see what happens when I tip you up.

Can you see the edges there?

Yeah, yeah, yeah!

Yeah, well, this is the honeymoon suite,

and this alcove had beds.

There were basically curtains to keep the draft out...

...and people have the beds behind the curtains.

How private do you want that area to be?

It's not going to be soundproof.

Because, I mean, the whole house isn't soundproof.

It's like Quality Street, it's made for sharing.

So, people have to be discreet -

but in terms of giving them some privacy

so they can get changed in private...

How much of the space are you prepared to give up?

Well, because the croft goes right up into the eaves,

we've got no loft space.

So, really, we need to be able to create some storage in here.

Sure. What we need to understand is the size of your space,

and if you could just sort of shade an area

and say, "This is the area we think should be private."

If you could have a little look

for any materials that you've potentially got, as well,

for curtains... Yeah.

Right, I think we've all got a bit of homework to do.

Mainly you guys, for the minute,

but then the ball will be in our court.

Take care, you two. Take it easy! Thanks for chatting to us.

Bye!

Two years in, learning to live with the place.

That's a really big thing.

You have to live in a place before you know how you want to use it.

Yeah. It was three years before we started on ours.

We should have started with a croft, it would have been so much easier.

We should have started with a bungalow,

it would have been really easy.

Although we've no guests at the chateau right now,

there's still plenty on our to-do list.

And we're not the only ones who've been busy.

A few days ago, I asked Lexie

to draw up a plan of the cellar she wants to turn into a speakeasy.

But she's gone one better

and sent me a guided tour.

First of all, the coal chute.

This will be sandblasted - hopefully, come up nicely.

This is going to be, hopefully, the seating

for when we're watching movies.

And I think, with some nice upholstery and nice cushions,

we can make this feel really cosy.

I've started to collect some things just to give you an idea

of my style - just things that are a little bit quirky,

not kind of your normal run-of-the-mill.

I found this black and white tile that I had left

over from a project. They're nice.

I think that might pop really nicely against the brick.

And then I also grabbed this offcut of some brick wallpaper.

That's hopefully how the wall's going to look down there,

once it's been shot blasted.

Come and have a little look at this brick. That's wallpaper, isn't it?

But that looks like what she's got already.

What's going to happen when she sandblasts?

It's like sandpapering it. Right. But it's much more aggressive.

It would clean off all the bricks and it's all going to be uniform.

OK, I need to speak to her about that.

I'm going to give her a call.

Hi, Lexie. You're looking gorgeous.

Oh, thank you. So do you, as always.

Put on my favourite lashes today! Oh, wonderful.

So, we've got quite a lot to talk about, OK?

You look like you're going to sandblast everything.

I don't know if it is the right thing for you, purely based

on you showing us your wallpaper.

You know, that is a look that people want.

And you only get that look with age and time. Yeah.

Wire brush the walls. OK. Yes.

Go and get all the loose stuff off of the brickwork. Yeah.

Now, the big job that you've got to do, which is going to absolutely

elevate this place, is obviously your seating area.

Are you up for doing that?

Yes, I'm going to give it a go. Right.

OK, let me turn this around.

Right.

Oh, wow.

This is basically plywood, foam and velvet.

You can just do any shape.

Have you done any upholstery before?

I've only done chairs. But you get the concept?

Yeah, I think it's just breaking it down into chunks

so it doesn't feel so overwhelming.

I'm delighted Lexie is up for trying a banquette in her speakeasy.

Coming from the French word for bench,

they have either placed against or built onto a wall.

And now I've cut my wood to shape,

I've come up with a simple but effective way to upholster it.

She's going to have a staple gun, her Dacron and her fabric

cut to size.

Bottom-top or top-bottom, whatever you want.

Good. That's my first bit.

Then I've got my first bit of fabric.

So, on this one,

I'm just doing a folded corner.

OK, now, I've got this sort of big bit of...of fabric,

and I've got to get it round the curve.

So you kind of manipulate it. But to make sure I've got no creases,

so I can see I've got no creases there...

OK.

OK.

First one.

Oh, wow. Done.

And on with the next one.

Right. Now, this is similar

to, like, an upholstery tape.

I'm using just a piece of card,

but it's going to give this lovely crisp edge.

What I'm going to do is

I'm going to put in one here,

pop it right on the edge.

One here.

All right. Now I'm going to just check...

Oh, yeah. Look, I've got a line. That's got a nice, crisp line.

Yes.

Now I'm happy it's in place...

Do we buy bulk orders of staples?

So at this point, Lexie would do the foam and then the Dacron,

as she would have done the first time.

Not just for speakeasies, banquettes can add extra seating in any room

where space is tight.

There we go. There'll be a seat there.

I'm happy with it.

But, most importantly, I think that Lexie can do it

and enjoy doing it.

Whilst Lexie stock up on staples,

I need to find out how Shetland crofters Mandy and Paul

have been getting on with measuring up for their privacy screen

and storage.

What have they sent me?

What's that? 340.

Er, 179.

That's a good size space.

I think I've got enough information

to go and put something together for them,

and just see if we're going the right direction.

So, in order to show Mandy and Paul how to create some privacy for

guests, and storage for themselves,

I've made a mock-up of their croft space in my workshop.

Our mission is to screen this but over here, so I can go

here and nobody can see what I'm doing, OK?

Here they're going to be building their wardrobe.

So this doorframe is attached on the corner of their wardrobe.

We'll turn it into a room by hinging the whole frame

around to this position.

Click it into the ground.

That is just genius.

And the thing is with the curtains, is that... I haven't got there yet.

Because what I was thinking...

I need to see what's going on up there.

All I'm doing is putting something to hold this up here,

like this. When was last time I hung a curtain?

I don't know. I was just thinking that.

Not in our relationship.

The curtain is now available to pull.

But we have to take it across to the far side.

Look at the little stainless steel hook... Yeah. See?

If I get this to attach to that, we will have done

something quite clever.

So this is just my little block.

We take the end of our cable...

...click it in.

Not enough tension,

so what I have to do is tighten it.

And that's what these little tensioners so.

See? It's tightening it up, nice and tight.

OK. I think that's great.

That doesn't look too terrible as it is, yeah?

Click this up, swing this back.

In the stowed position...

...the curtain stays there.

You've worked out the privacy, but also their storage. Yeah.

It's great.

We'll check back in with Mandy and Paul later on.

But for now, I've headed back to the boudoir where I want to

create a 3D mood board to help inspire a design

for Lexie's speakeasy.

Lexie's got that trunk, hasn't she, of all her bits and pieces?

I've sort of done the same thing and I'm pulling it together,

more to kind of get me into the next

level of taking on Lexie's sort of design.

This is basically going to be a table full of bits and pieces. Yeah.

Mr and Mrs Martini.

So a mood board gets you in the mood?

The mood board gets you completely in the mood. Yeah.

To me, this is the star of Lexie's speakeasy.

It says glamour. It says I'm going to have a drink in a minute,

and I've got to put my best perfume on.

And to finish it off,

your candlelit speakeasy table.

I'll be sharing my design with Lexie later.

Now it's time to head up to Shetland to see what's going down with

Mandy and Paul's crafty croft conversion.

We've been here six years - that seat I've sat on so many times.

And the minute I let you sit on my seat, look what you've done!

We'll see what we can do as we go along, here.

Stuff.

Let's see how Paul and Mandy are getting on, all right?

I'm just going to see if we've got a suitable door for the partition

for the project.

And I think we've got two in the shed here.

Oh, and, by the way, this is Stuart...

...one of our caddy lambs.

That's definitely too big and too heavy, that one.

But this one is ideal.

It's a solid door.

That's a big size old wardrobe, there... It really is.

Oh, that's looking great.

I mean, they've got a proper bit of storage in there.

I'd just like to catch up and see where they've got on that,

and I'm sure they must be getting arty soon.

Hello! Hey! Hello!

That's a big old wardrobe.

Yeah. I'm going to live in it, I think.

Have you sort of worked out what you want to do about

your cu rtainy effect?

I'm really glad you've got the sheet because the number one thing

here is for it to be private.

Can I just say, in this whole thing, my wife has talked

about function first, and this is unheard of!

I've always actually done that.

I have, I have! I mean, you've got to...

If you put the two together and you are confident that they've got

the privacy you want, it's going to look completely gorgeous.

And I can picture it now because, Mandy, you're a bit of an artist,

aren't you? You're going to have really moody colours and a bit

of your artistic work.

Yeah.

Oh, yes!

Yeah. I personally would maybe consider spreading them

so they come out from the doors

and you've got some of the botanicals on the walls.

Yeah. That's great, isn't it?

Listen, lovely chatting to you. Can't wait to see it done.

Take care. Bye! Bye-bye!

We'll leave Mandy with her pristine lace and linen, and check

in with Lexie, who has a much dirtierjob on her hands

in the cellar.

Hi, Dick and Angel.

So, I'm just here with my dad Spike, and we're going to be doing

the dog work down here.

So, today we're going to be starting to scrape the paint off the walls.

They have got a tiny brush.

I'm just feeling for them because they've made their

work a little bit bigger.

We've scraped all of the old lime mortar off the walls.

This is where we're going to have the projector aiming onto.

It's come up lovely.

Now the cellar is back to basics,

I want to show Lexie my vision for her speakeasy.

So, I've got something to show you.

I'm going to send it to you now.

OK, I've got it. Oh, wow!

That looks incredible.

Is it how you thought it was going to look?

No. It looks far better.

That's great!

Oh, no, that's absolutely amazing.

Honestly, I've got a little goose bumps.

I'm really, really excited for you.

It's so nice to see how it will look,

and it kind of is motivating me

to go and do another day's work in there today.

So, speak to you soon. Bye, darling. Bye!

A few weeks ago, Mandy and Paul came to us for help in creating extra

storage and privacy in their Shetland croft.

There they both are!

Since then, they've been busy working their socks off, getting

it ready for their first human guests.

And we can't wait to see what they've created.

There we are. That's what it WAS like.

That's brilliant. Well done. Oh, that's fantastic.

Yeah...

The recessing in of the sofa bed... It's tied it in lovely.

It's so special and unique.

Oh, yeah, it's fantastic.

It's like that was always there.

Whoa!

Oh, yeah!

Good job. Good job.

That's a proper guest room, isn't it?

Well done. Oh, it's worked so well.

They're really made good use of that space.

That is fantastic.

Well done.

Let's give them a call and say hello.

Hey!

Well done.

THEY LAUGH

Thank you. Yeah, we're really chuffed with it, aren't we?

Yeah.

I loved your thought behind everything, though.

You know, the wrens, and the bees over the handle. It's so lovely.

Not only is it functional and it works, it felt

like it had always been there. It does.

And thank you so much, because we've loved having your help.

It's been an absolute pleasure. Loved looking around the Shetlands.

Listen, take care, you two. Yeah. It's been an absolute.

Bless you. Thank you.

See you! Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye.

The chateau is buzzing with excitement

as our wildlife pond is coming to life.

Lexie has been hard at work on her basement speakeasy.

I think that, after it's hard, a good to the dry cleans.

The finish will actually take quite nicely for painting.

The floor is going to be stencilled using the pattern from her tiles

and her banquette seating is literally coming together.

What's really irritating is that I've bought a bed

that's really similar to this

and now I can see how easy it is to do, I wish I'd just done it myself,

but hey-ho.

For a first-time, beginner job...

...it's not too bad.

Back at the pond, we've been introducing some local wildlife.

Go right, go straight ahead to this bit here.

And now, Mother Nature is taking over.

It looks like it's been in the walled garden for years.

Right, what's he called? Eunice. Eunice?

Hold it tight.

And joining our tadpoles today are two colourful koi carp.

Look at that! How beautiful!

Pull the bottom corner.

Nice and steady, nice and steady.

Oh, he's away. Oh, look, they are - they're hanging out together!

A boy and a girl! They're a shoal. Well done, babies.

While the new residents settle in,

we're settling down for another request.

The thing I love about this is

we have no idea what the challenge is going to be.

That's part of the excitement, isn't it?

Hi, Dick and Angel. My name's Izzy.

I met my amazing fiance Ben in 2019

and he proposed a year later.

Look - I'm smiling from ear to ear.

I'm like, "Oh, romance, weddings!"

The project that I'm hoping you'll be able

to help me with is my wedding bouquet.

This is me. Shall I go and make some more tea?

THEY CHUCKLE

The main issue I'm having is that I have really bad hay fever,

but I continually come back to wanting that bouquet of flowers.

I'm planning a Great Gatsby-inspired wedding.

My love for vintage definitely came from my nan

and listening to her stories when she grew up in World War ll.

Oh! Look at her nan.

This was in my grandma's house

and I just thought it would be really lovely...

I already have a vision.

Wait, get to the end, get to the end, get to the end.

...to have something like this in the bouquet.

But because the wedding colours are white, black and gold,

this would be a really nice connection.

White, black and gold, yeah. Great Gatsby.

I really would love to still have that beautiful effect

of a bouquet, but maybe not so much the side effects of the hay fever.

You say artificial flowers

and I think of those really horrible little daffodils and tulips...

Completely. And I think that is where

the bad reputation has come from.

But faux flowers today are exceptional.

I'm all over this one. I love it.

So that'll be Dick does not do lzzy's bouquet - underlined.

And I've just writ it, "Ahhhh!"

In our six years at the chateau, we've hosted dozens of weddings

and the flowers have always been at the heart of the styling.

So, I'm thrilled that lzzy's request has brought me back

to my happy place.

When was the last time you seriously talked bouquets

with one of your brides-to-be?

Nearly two years. Oh, you poor poppet!

Right, let me speak to Izzy.

Izzy, hello! Hello! Hi!

OK, I know the style you want.

We're talking Art Deco, we're talking black, gold,

but talk to me about your grandma.

So, my nan sang me the wartime songs

and showed me how to jitterbug and jive.

And then my grandma just had all of these beautiful items.

So, it was your grandma that had the gold leaves?

Yeah. Great.

So, we sadly, we lost her a year ago. Oh...

It feels like, then, it brings her in

and it makes her part the wedding.

Honestly, I have a little tear! Oh, bless you!

It's so sweet! I love it.

I have got a couple of different directions

that I feel like we can go in.

You've got sort of faux beautiful bouquets that resemble wild flowers.

Or we can just be really representative of the '20s

and we can go feathers.

Wow. OK, you've got Grandma in your bouquet.

I've got a little idea for bringing your nan in,

and it was something that I did

for one of the first weddings that we had here.

I made these for them.

Oh, my goodness. They're beautiful.

Now, they are made from the song that they fell in love to.

I think that's really lovely.

What I need from you is you to have a think about the song

and any other things that you can send me that you like.

Absolutely amazing. I can't wait to get started.

Me too, honestly. Take care. Bye. Bye.

How excited are you? ANGEL LAUGHS

That's ridiculous.

Oh!

Whilst Izzy channels her inner Constance Spry,

I'm going to show her how she can create sneeze-free flowers

from the simplest of materials - papen

Izzy and I talked about doing origami flowers or roses

and we talked about her nan.

But, actually, since then, it's kind of grown, like a rose does,

because there's going to be a flower for every member of the family

that's not here, which is quite sweet.

Now, Izzy sent me over a little song that reminds her

of her nana, or her nana.

It's We'll Meet Again. Hey!

There's generations of us who know Vera Lynn.

We like a bit of Vera. Let's go.

So, I just printed out a song sheet. OK?

But this is the most important thing.

It has to be double-sided, you see,

because when it goes onto here, you do see the back and the front.

And this is just a little petal template.

I'm just going to draw round it.

I'm just going to cut this out.

I'm going to put it on just like a kebab stick!

And I'm going to roll them before I put them on.

OK?

This little bit here is sort of the fiddliest

and the most time-consuming.

But I can imagine, if lzzy's there with her mum and other...

It's just nice,

there's no stress or difficulty either in this as well.

Right, I pull this in now.

I'm just literally going to put a little bit around here.

Yeah.

All right. There we go.

And then I'm going to just push a paper onto the glue.

Get my first one in.

You actually only need to lift that one petal up

and glue it into place.

And then all the others, because they've already been folded,

they sort of just go into place.

Until I've got something that I quite like the look of. Yeah.

This is one layer of petals and this is my bud.

Now I'm going to put another one on.

Everyone, like a flower, is different, and that is the beauty.

And these will essentially last forever.

Darling, it's actually a very lovely.

Our other Art Deco-inspired project is Lexie's speakeasy cellar.

And I want to show her how to make stylish shelving -

with the help of Mr Strawbridge.

In its simplest form, that is somewhere to put shelves. Mm-hm.

And, in the simplest form, that is a baton. Yep.

But you don't want this, do you?

I definitely want shelf support, but not something that looks as ugly

as a piece of wood. OK.

If I said to you, instead of having that there, what I'm going to do

is I'm going to do a little Art Deco-y type thing.

I mean, I get the sense of it, yeah.

It's a little bit stumpy, but, yeah.

The first one you do is going to be a template,

and if Lexie decides she wants to do three shelves,

she just makes six of these.

That is the shape of what's going to be put onto the wall. Great.

You see this little thing here? Yeah.

That's just going to give you that little bit of a...

Just a little bit shadow, isn't it? It's a shadow, that's all it is.

What do you think? There you are.

Yeah. It's basically deco-ing up your batoning.

"Deco-ing up your batoning".

ANGEL LAUGHS There you go.

This is a great way to bring a touch of style to any shelving.

In fact, the only limit is your imagination.

And I'm looking forward to seeing what Lexie creates later.

But right now, excited bride-to-be Izzy has sent me

some style inspiration for her faux bouquet.

I've just been looking into my homework

and I thought you might like to see

the picture of my nan on her wedding day.

You might just be able to see the flowers

that are within the bouquet.

The flowers are incredible.

So, what I'm seeing is black and gold

and kind of like dusky pinks and reds.

Now I've got a better sense of lzzy's style,

I'm ready to get creative with

some hay fever-friendly dried foliage

and some spray paint.

Whoops.

Don't tell Dick.

Oh, yeah, it's coming up a treat.

The pigment in that is just stunning.

SHE EXHALES HEAVILY I'm totally impressed with that!

That gold is exactly the gold that reminds me of lzzy's grandma.

Prep work done, it's time to build a bouquet.

Some of these are faux flowers, sort of silk flowers,

and some are not flowers at all.

These are my feathers.

Now, for me, I've got this spectrum of a vision

and from one end, it's like a classic bouquet

kind of made with colours that Izzy likes,

and on the other end, I've got a really Art Deco,

Great Gatsby-inspired, black, gold, lots of feathers

that doesn't really feel like a classic bouquet.

So, I think I'm going to start by getting some of my eucalyptus.

Just collecting some of the black bits.

I'm going to break it up with some other black faux flowers.

These are just little feathers that I've attached with a wire,

but I like it cos you can be really pliable with this.

I've got these, which I completely love.

They're going to give it a different texture.

For me, they really epitomise that era.

I'll get my flapper dress on.

Oh, darling, I love you.

Right, I love this. I've got the black, the gold, the burgundy.

Do you think that's nice, Dick?

I think it's phenomenal.

This is one direction,

but Izzy might decide that she just actually wants something

that is really sort of just flowers.

Maybe something like this. You know?

It is a process.

I need to hear from Izzy kind of where she's at.

You can actually box it up and send it to her.

That is a great idea, Mr Strawbridge!

Izzy's parcel has arrived and she hasn't opened it.

I've sorely missed our chateau weddings, so as a treat

I sent bride-to-be Izzy a box of delights,

which I hope will inspire ideas

for an allergy-free bridal bouquet.

Grab a hanky now.

Hi!

Izzy, go for it, darlin'.

OK, here we go.

Oh, my goodness.

Oh, wow. This is just amazing.

I think you've just got to get in there

and sort of start taking bits out.

Oh, it's not black foliage. Yes.

It's got to be the base, definitely. Yes.

Do you know, just even you just holding that there

just feels completely right.

Oh, wow.

The design... I've lost Izzy.

She's organising all the foliage.

I'm sorry.

I love it. I absolutely love it. It's so funny.

If you do spray anything, you need to make sure your foliage

is dry when you spray it

and if you do more black try and use a matte black, I would say.

Good luck. I'm here - honestly, got any questions

then just sort of, like, ping them over to me. Amazing.

Thank you so much, Angel. Have fun. Bye.

She's going to have fun, isn't she?

She's going to have fun. These are laughter tears.

A few months ago, I was looking for a natural solution to deter

veg-munching pests in our walled garden...

...so I decided to build a wildlife pond to attract frogs, toads

and other helpful little beasties to protect my patch.

Excellent. Leave it there.

We collected plants and organisms from the surrounding

marshes to populate the pond.

And, after lots of hard graft with my top team,

the pond has finally come to fruition.

There's going to be a score to see

who can see the most wildlife-y things here. Oh, Dorothy's started.

Not only is it a great way to attract natural predators

to keep the slugs off my cabbages,

it also teaches the children about the magic of Mother Nature.

Now, Arthur, this is for you.

Dorothy, this is for you.

So, you can look under the water

and tell me if you can see any legs. But how...?

You dip that end in. You dip that end in and you look.

Can you see any tadpoles?

It looks glorious.

Yeah, it doesn't look too bad. No.

It looks like it's been here a while as well, doesn't it?

It does, and the fact that these rocks are the walls

and your old shoes... Remember it started by a big hole?

It was exactly - it started with a big hole,

and, you know, the only thing that daddy has bought

has been... Pond liner.

...the pond liner.

Oh, look there. What's that? Come over here.

Look on that leaf. Look at that leaf over there.

What is it? A dragonfly.

We've got a dragonfly in the pond. Yay!

That's the first dragonfly we've seen.

This is just going to go from strength to strength. This...

Do you know how much work we have to do now?

What? None. Nothing.

Nothing at all.

We just let nature do it.

Well done, baby. Well done, kids.

Someone trying to avoid getting too close to nature

is hayfever-sufferer Izzy,

who asked me for help creating a sneeze-free bridal bouquet.

So, today I am spraying some of the faux foliage

and some foliage I've got from the garden,

just like Angel showed me how to do.

And with the wedding just a few months away, I've come

to the orangery - where so many chateaux brides have celebrated

their big day - to see how she's got on.

Well, this is quite exciting. It's the closest to a wedding

you've got at the orangery this year.

It is. That's why it's felt good,

but also Izzy and her desire to make sure that her bouquet

is quite meaningful is very, very special,

and - I don't know - it's something that I really related to. I love it.

I've got here the foliage that I sprayed

and it's a really lovely bronzy gold,

which I think works really well with the black.

And my favourite part is these were from the Chateau gardens, I believe,

so it's quite nice to have

a little bit of the chateau there at the wedding.

0h!

Honestly, it is looking fantastic.

Aw, this is adorable.

She's there with her mum.

They've got tea, they're in the garden and they're making roses

that mean something for the family and...

I personally like the aged look...

THEY CHEER

That's my one.

Well done, Ben.

He chose lzzy's.

I just love that this is going to be the bouquet

that I'm going to be holding in those photos.

I can't wait for Ben to see it.

I genuinely wouldn't have got the most beautiful bouquet I could ever

have hoped for on my wedding day without you, so thank you so much.

You do need a hanky. I knew you would.

I knew you would. You said, "l won't... I don't need a hanky.

"L'm not... I won't need a handkerchief," you said.

Oh...

It's just...

I can really, really feel that she really... She's so happy.

She loves it and that's why we do weddings.

That's why I love them so much.

A few weeks ago, Lexie asked us to help transform her dark and dingy

cellar into a decadent speakeasy.

And we've been with her and she's

put her heart and soul into the project, learning

lots of new skills along the way.

It's not perfect. That's my first attempt,

but I think they will look really impressive when they're up.

I can't wait to see what Lexie's been up to because this particular

project is very close to my heart

and there was just so much work to do.

I can't believe that the project's coming to an end, really.

There's still bits and pieces that I think I'll add to it,

but, overall, I've achieved so much in such a short space of time.

And to see what little money you need to transform a space...

It hasn't been a really extravagant project,

but I think it's got quite an extravagant feel to it.

Is it a comfy speakeasy?

Oh, yes.

The bar!

Oh, fantastic.

I mean, for me, it's even better than I'd imagined.

Oh yeah, great.

The floor is fantastic.

I mean, she completely nailed it.

I think, more than anything, it's just been nice to spend some

quality time together.

Aw. You've got to count on your dad.

Lexie has achieved so much and that deserves a toast.

To all the hard work. No, well, thank you.

What are you making me? A gimlet.

We don't have a cellar speakeasy, but I've recreated one

in the boudoir,

and, along with our gin and lime cocktail, it's perfect for a night

of Art Deco decadence.

That speakeasy is going to bring so much joy to them.

It already has. To Lexie's speakeasy. To Lexie.

Give me some moonshine.

Oh, look at you.

It's a speakeasy joke.

Next time... Have a little look where I am.

...we bring sunshine to a summerhouse...

I have birds everywhere. Yes!

...stir things up...

It needs a fair bit of mixing, actually.

That's why we've got a machine to do it.

...and discover

silence really is golden.

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