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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.

SHE 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

on our first floor landing.

...some crafty conundrums...

I want to massage it in,

because then it creates that lovely sort of fluffiness again.

...to entire room renovations.

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

We're sharing out 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.

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.

Have we got everything?

Battening, the felt, the pins

the mermaid slate.

But that's never actually been on anybody's list ever.

Well, Mr Strawbridge it's on ours now because over the past few weeks

I've been planning a mermaid-themed shed

for Dorothy's upcoming birthday.

With pastel shades, a painted mermaid towel, and a roof made

of gold-edged scalloped tiles,

and my tool of choice are my trusty slate cutters.

This is a deja vu from the orangery.

The first time I found out you could scallop a slate,

I was ridiculously excited,

and with the orangery,

we just did one row, but it looks lovely, and I feel very proud

of my one row that I did.

SHE CHUCKLES

Now, these are artificial slate,

so once you cut it you get, like, an exposed edge.

So, you need to seal that.

And I am with gold. Because I had to seal it with something.

We're going to be putting the first one up,

we start with a half scallop... Right. ..because we have to have the

next full one in this gap. Cos it's got to go over it and over it.

That's... Yeah. That's how the roof works.

Stick a hook on the batten beside the half scallop. Like that?

Yeah, all the way, yeah. That's good. Yeah?

This bit here now goes in.

So, this is very exciting.

The first official overlap.

Oh, hello!

That does not look too terrible.

I've never seen a roof with gold-edged scallop.

Stick with me, kiddo.

THEY LAUGH

Well, there's plenty to keep us busy with our mermaid theme project.

But we've always got time for one of your requests.

Let's have a look and see where we're going.

Now, this is... BOTH: Esther.

Hi, Dick and Angel. Hello, darling. My name is Esther.

I would really appreciate your help with my DIY project.

Last year, I acquired a doll's house... Yes!

...and it's in the style of an old Vicarage.

It looks like a lovely old house, doesn't it? It does.

Interesting, even though it's a doll's house, first thing

I'm looking at is the roof.

THEY LAUGH

There's a couple of tiles to get replaced there. Erm...

You have been ruined.

I really don't know where to start, but what I do know

is that I really want to give it a renovation, freshen it up,

mainly for my four nieces and nephews to enjoy.

Aw! Oh, that's nice.

The kind of things which need doing are sorting out the kind of opening

mechanisms for the front doors, and a lot of work on the exterior

and interior in terms of design, carpets and walls, things like that.

Making little fiddly things. It's not easy.

That... It's a whole different skill set. I may go to my workshop

and see some of my big stuff, and see if I can find something,

which is a little equivalent of it, so she can use those as tools.

Mr Strawbridge, you're secretly about this doll's house.

SHE CHUCKLES

I can see... I'm a little bit scared... ..the look in your eye.

...of where it might lead us. SHE LAUGHS

This doll's house project is right up my street.

So, to help me get my Lilliputian head on,

I've come to Dorothy's bedroom for a chat with Esther.

Hello. Hey!

Your doll's house project is so charming, and... Oh.

Where are you in terms of starting it?

Pretty much at stage one.

Well, actually, I think your stage one is patching of the roof.

It's the walls. It's the floors.

It's making the house good before you can get to the aesthetics,

because in any renovation project that is what you would do.

So, I have a bit of mathematical information to share

with you from my husband in terms of working out the scale

of your doll's house.

Now, apparently a door is about two metres.

If you measure a door in the house and say it is 20 centimetres,

if you divide that, you work it out, that it's sort of ten to one. OK.

Because when we start to make furniture, you're going to want

to know how to size it up.

Now, Dorothy does have a number of sort of bits that probably

were in doll's houses. Even the top of this, which is obviously

just from washing up liquid, but, actually, if you look at that,

I'm now thinking that that could be the base of a lamp or something.

You know? I have collected kind of crafty things kind of

over the years. So I definitely think there'll be, erm, yeah,

some cool things to put in the doll house.

Hi, Esther! Hi! Hello, darling.

Mwah! Lovely to see you.

I think, Esther, I'd love a list of the infrastructure bits

you think need to be stuck or attached. We'll give you an answer

as to how to do each individual one. That's a great call.

OK, thank you so much. Thank you. Take care, sweetheart.

OK. See you soon. Bye.

How excited are you by this project?

It just is so different.

I actually feel like Aladdin - it's a whole new world.

I'm worried that the chateau's gonna lose me.

SHE LAUGHS

One project I definitely can't let slip is Dorothy's shed,

and the mermaid style slate roof is almost complete.

Well, maybe just a touch more gold.

HE GIGGLES

WhY are you laughing?

Every time I leave you, there's going to be more gold.

I'm just sealing the ends, because it's got an exposed edge,

and if the rain gets on it, it will actually seep down.

So, I'm actually doing something that's needed...

And you're adding more gold. And I'm adding more gold.

Do you want to carry this for me?

Before I get too carried away with the rest of the decorating,

I would like Dorothy's verdict.

1, 2, 3! There we go.

Oh, I like the gold bit.

I love it. I actually do love it.

You love it? Yeah. Oh, my goodness.

So, are you happy? Does it look like a mermaid cos it's all scalloped?

Yeah, it does, actually. Have we done all right?

OK.

With Dorothy's seal of approval, I can start thinking about moving

on with the rest of the project.

But not before we watch another of your requests.

Right, we've got Wendy and Chloe with a houseboat.

I'm loving the variety of projects this year.

Hi, Dick and Angel.

My name is Wendy, and this is my partner, Chloe, and this is us

filming in our houseboat. Oh, they're pretty fabulous.

I'm a nurse and I work in an A&E department in a busy hospital.

THEY LAUGH

It feels like this is kind of like a date boat for them.

Oh, that's super cute.

So, I've seen on houseboats pictures of roof gardens. It doesn't take

up the full length of the boat. The boat's actually 57 feet long.

Oh, that's good. That's good.

That's...that's...that's a proper narrow boat. That is...

So, inside making it luxurious at night, and doing something

with those windows. That's you?

Yeah. And gardening, getting the water up, sort of making it safe,

making sure things don't fall off - that's you.

OK. It feels very, very an us job. Yeah.

Two years ago, Dick and I transformed Dolphin,

a 40-year-old narrow boat, into a romantic riverside escape.

Bright colours, handmade blinds, and an outdoor decking area

brought nautical-inspired relaxation.

And we want to share some of those design principles

with Wendy and Chloe.

Oh, look! I got to press the buttons. Hold on...

So, we're giving them a call by our boat on the moat.

Hiya! Hello!

Hello.

We are sort of boat to boat. This is ours behind us,

but it's tiny compared to your gorgeous boat.

We've actually got ten windows in here,

so it's just flooded with light all the time.

It's just, we need some way of making it look a bit prettier.

Are you after curtains, or are you after a bit of a mixture?

Thinking nice, rich, kind of, velvet, or something like that,

and because the windows go in a big line all the way to the end,

I was wondering maybe even about putting, erm,

velvet in a panel that you can slide along.

Looking behind you, the actual gap between windows is not of

the same amount of space as the windows.

You've got more windows than wall.

I think we need to see an actual scaled plan.

Gardening and the garden side of life.

So, I would like a roof garden. Not too big.

It'd just be too much work if it was a really long one.

What we can do is we can make it modular, so that if you want to have

more, you can make more. OK? Yeah, that's true.

If you can get me some of the measurements of the front end, yes?

We'll take it from there, and I'll come up with a plan.

This is going to be fun.

I don't know what extra work you're going to cause me on our boat.

I think the Dolphin's going to get more attention now. Ah, never mind.

It might not be any work. It just might be a lovely date.

You might be absolutely thanking Emily and Chloe. I could be!

HE LAUGHS Somehow I think

it's going to be work. But that's neither here nor there.

Over by the boat on the moat, I'm in my element.

Wendy and Chloe have measured up, and now I have their plans,

I'm going to show them how to make a modular planter for the roof

of their canal boat.

And the key is to make it sit flat on the curved roof.

So by putting a piece of wood across these two, we can sort of see

that actually this is quite simple.

It just misses in the middle.

See that little gap? Can we see? Look at the little gap.

So if we were just doing something that's got an edge...

That is seven.

So we'll have two little stands at the edge, 70mm.

What that means is it's not going to touch in the middle.

OK, there is any number of ways we can join bits of wood together.

That's a 45 degree cut. What happens

if I have another piece that goes across there...

This looks like a line there. Lovely.

The box has got three bits of wood in the bottom of it.

I made it this size of three bits of wood fitted in, it's as simple as that.

That's a really, really, really great to do it

the width of your planks. I love that.

Then I've got my spacer,

which...is 70mm,

will give me enough to sit up off my roof. Great.

At this stage,

this is a functioning garden on the top of a barge.

What's the chances of me getting away with this on top

of our barge like this? Zero!

OK, I sort of thought you were going to want that.

So painting it, doing whatever you want,

this is a next stage.

Next bit. Leave it to me.

So I'm going to measure the front door...

Esther is looking for help with her doll's house,

and I asked her to hunt for materials she could use

on the project.

Kind of on the random side,

I have an old mouthwash lid.

I immediately saw that as a bucket by the fireplace

with little bits of twigs being logs.

The doll's house does have a few things which need mending

or kind of fixing.

It doesn't stay closed.

And then it kind of hangs like that.

And if we look on the top of the doll's house,

there's just general fraying and peeling.

I think the mechanism on the door is one that

has to be sorted, but then there's lots and lots of little repairs

that could just be, for the moment, sort of just moved over.

So Esther's going to be busy, but she won't be alone

because I've been inspired to source this gorgeous second-hand doll's

house that I plan to renovate

for Arthur and Dorothy.

Doll's houses date back to around the 16th century,

and rather than being play things,

they started life as miniature display cabinets and then became

tiny replicas of family homes.

So, of course, my interior

is going to be modelled on the chateau.

Because nearly every doll's house

has had somebody's personality put into it,

you can't really predict what's going to be underneath

or how it's stuck on or what glue they used.

But I think for Esther, she has to just really get in,

strip everything out,

and when she gets to this stage, she needs to get a bowl of warm

water and, look, it's coming off nicely.

It's probably going to be wallpaper glue.

Let's be honest. Or something like that.

So basically, you're getting down

to the building blocks now, aren't you? Yeah.

I have got a little bit of a repair here that is

outside my comfort zone.

If you can do the hinge, then I can carry on. Right, swap.

Swap. Right.

The problem with this is this piece of plastic.

That is, by the way, some sort of plastic

with something drawn on the other side.

Look-see, look-see.

So I need to be able to clamp that.

I have got all my tiny clamps and things here, ready to work.

Look, this is a tiny clamp. Oh, OK.

That's a tiny screw.

That's rubbish. It won't work.

It just goes to show, when you're working on something

this small, you need to use ingenuity as well as imagination.

This'll work. See here? Oh, just using a bulldog.

Yeah. Good. All right.

That works.

Oh. Oh, there we go.

What I'm doing instead of hammering the nail in,

cos this wood is not that hard,

squeezing it in.

So that's one little hinge.

Meanwhile, I've got some more screws to put in.

And this is more than likely

what Esther is going to have to do as well.

I've got all my smallest tools in the world.

So this is a little awl.

We're going to use an awl for making a tap hole, a hole which you put

a screw into. Right. I'm going to put that in there,

give it a little wiggle, see?

I'm not making a big hole, I'm just putting a little wiggle in there.

I'm going to put a little drop of superglue

into that hole and then get it to push through with a screw.

These are so small.

In there. Get it vertical.

That is well held on, so I'm happy I've got

one good screw in its side - makes a big difference to me.

So this hinge I'm happy with.

Your input has been invaluable.

Oh, you're so sweet.

I knew Dick wouldn't be able to resist this project.

Well, another one I can't resist is the modular garden for Wendy

and Chloe's narrow boat.

Scrubbing the decks.

They've understood my instructions and have done a brilliant job

on their planter.

Now I want to show them how to add a water drainage system.

What is this?

That...that is... Who chose the colour?

I totally chose. Why is the box pink?

THEY CHUCKLE

Now, first things first, I need to line this

with some plastic.

All it's going to do is make sure that we've got

somewhere for gravel to sit.

OK. If we get a lot of rain,

there's going to be a lot of water sitting in here.

And what I'm trying to do is just manage the overspill.

We'll screw these in.

Held in place by battens on the side, and battens

on the end.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to drill a hole this size

so I can push this through the wood,

which means when the water level comes up to here,

instead of continuing to rise inside the box,

it's going to come dribble out the side.

So it's just like a bath overflow?

Exactly what it is. Great. Yes.

This...

HE CHUCKLES ..should fit there...

...like this.

It doesn't touch the boat in the middle.

That's great, yeah. Right,

we need to start loading it up with flowers.

You're going to want to move these, aren't you?

I can feel you twitching. I'm fine.

Are you? No, I'm not.

It's like your Christmas tree decorations

where you pretend to let people put them on

and then you move everything.

SHE LAUGHS

Well, I just can't help myself!

Esther has also been busy following my guide with her doll's house,

doer-upper. Getting the adhesive off is very hard to do.

So I've brought in my mum.

Thanks, Mum.

Mums to the rescue. That's what mums are for.

So I am going to attempt to fix some hinges.

Did I mention I'm not good at DIY?

Faith, girl, come on!

Course it's going to work.

I'm so proud of myself.

You can see what I've done all on my own.

OK. Now open the doors.

They work!

Thanks for the vote of confidence.

Well done, Esther. She's done a fab job.

Esther's doll's house renovation is coming together nicely,

and we've been working on ours too.

Oh, you're literally just putting glue on there

and sticking down this bit. Yeah.

And working to scale means I'm able to recreate

lots of elements of the chateau, even the smallest room.

So this is the bathroom that I painted.

They're our colours in our bathroom.

Yeah? Yellow and grey.

In old DIY shops,

you can actually just buy stick-on tiles. Yeah?

And so they can be sort of big tiles

or they can be little mosaic tiles.

And soon as I saw these, I thought, "That's the floor."

I have done a little blind similar to what we've got in our bathroom.

So this is a tiny little bit of material.

OK? Hemmed with kebab sticks.

SHE LAUGHS

Up goes the blind. Mm-hm.

Where does one go next?

I think it has to be down to the kitchen. All right?

So I didn't need to buy any more paint because I literally

took our kitchen paint.

Now, the flooring... I found a way that, although it was really

time-consuming, I loved.

So this is similar to this in that it's on this sort of

silver sticky- back plastic,

but it's got the texture of brick.

Oh, yeah. Ah!

New for me - the big brick into little bricks. Yeah.

But what makes this is the variety of different colours.

That's why I think it looks so authentic.

The staircase...

The staircase, of course.

How can I not think about the staircase?

And this parquet which I've brought over into here

is just from coffee sticks.

OK? just a little brush and your wood glue.

And I'm just going to put it very sort of delicately here, OK?

Mm-hm. If Esther's got to do a lot of anything,

she might want to create a jig.

It's basically a template which allows her to mark it,

take it off and cut it.

So it's just repeatability and speed. Yeah.

There we go. Lovely.

Upstairs, like in our bedroom,

we've just got normal floorboard, and these lolly sticks I kind of

thought were going to be a little bit quicker to put in,

and they have been.

Exactly the same with the wood glue.

Very effective.

I've gone down a route inspired by our house, but the options

are kind of limitless.

It's a lovely thing just to have a canvas and just know

that you can do anything and that everything is right.

Wendy and Chloe have been beautifying their planter.

Several times!

Decided to change the colour of the planter.

I felt that green wasn't right.

It was a bit too wishy washy.

So I've changed it to this nice bright yellow.

We think it'll look really good.

And now they're deliberating on window coverings.

PaneL

We can work something out.

Or maybe Angel can work something out.

It looks like the ladies could do with a little bit of a helping hand.

Hello! Hey, is that a shorter bob?

Yes. Oh, I love it.

I think I've got an idea that you might like,

but before I run with it, I want your buy-in.

There's two things, isn't there?

You want the unctuousness,

the lovely feel of the velvet in the drapes,

and you want the space.

I am worried about going across ways.

I think it's going to take up quite a bit of space.

And in the daytime, if you're there sort of wanting a slightly different

feel, if you've got the big gorgeous curtains sort of draped to the side,

it will take the lead of how the boat feels.

However, you know when you go to theatres,

the curtains that just come up,

the gorgeous velvet draped curtains,

I think we can actually pull them up really sort of quite tight.

I love that idea. Of course,

the feel is light and airy and fresh.

And I think having the big drapes, you know, I think

that might take away from that.

Now, I've got like a day coat.

And it is, I mean, itjust happens to be sort of purple.

But to get this exact drape,

it's all going to be in the material that you get.

This is 95% polyester. OK?

Can you see there that, with the right material,

it actually automatically drapes without you doing much to it.

But I'm going to do the plaiting for you

and then give you the formula that works.

Thank you. It's lovely seeing you.

Thank you. Bye. Bye! Bye!

I've come to the playroom to see the results

of Esther's doll's house.

And what a difference!

She's renovated the roof, floors,

walls and made little curtains.

Esther's really got into this.

She's having so much fun!

Oh, nice.

Great.

They've gone for a whole printed new roof.

What a difference.

Oh, yeah!

I know Esther's had a great time doing this.

We're laying some floors.

Oh, the back wallpaper, hello!

Look, there's a unicorn!

Oh, fab.

But I have to say, I think Esther has gone like this.

At the beginning, she didn't know where to start.

And this is Esther.

You know, she's a doll's house enthusiast.

I need to speak to Esther.

We need to speak doll's houses.

Hi! Hi! So much fun.

ESTHER LAUGHS

Well done, gorgeous, well done.

Thank you.

Do you feel the pain when you hand it over to the children?

A little bit.

To give this to Dorothy,

I'm going to have to sort of extract it from her, I think.

Great job. Thank you.

Carry on enjoying it. Take care of yourselves.

You too. Bye. Bye. Bye.

Aw.

I'm thrilled for Esther.

And my own creation has certainly brought out my inner child.

I shouldn't actually be this happy, but I am.

In fact, for once, I can wait before I share it.

But not for long.

Open time.

It's like a mini our house.

It's a 1/12th of the size, so a real door is 12 times bigger.

It is! It's the same blind as our bathroom!

Look at these two having fun.

I love the fact we've got knights in the chateau.

Dorothy, come here, I need your guidance.

I've been busy creating a mermaid shed for Dorothy,

and now it's finally ready for painting.

Arghg

Right, good. Come on, shall we go and mix some paint up? Yeah.

I bought one colour.

Oh, come on!

Dorothy needn't worry,

because you can still play around with one colour,

as I plan to create a blue ombre paint effect,

by adding different quantities of blue dye to white paint.

...is put two squirts in there - four, six.

Two.

Look how pretty this is.

That is so pretty.

Deciding on different shades for one colour is a walk in the park,

compared to the choice faced by Wendy and Chloe,

who bravely went shopping for curtain fabric.

Yes, some tigers!

Oh, right, we'll think about that.

Do you think this is too thin?

Yeah, it is. I wonder if it's too much like the walls.

It's not given us a big contrast. Uh-huh.

I think we are nearly at the moment when we can blend.

You know all about blending, don't you?

We're painting our three different shades of blue to represent the sea.

And the trick with ombre is to blend them into each other

so you're left with no harsh lines,

just a beautiful cascading grade of colour.

You put on the darker colour...

...OK, and then you take a brush with not a lot on...

--0l

And we work it up a little bit,

into the lighter colour.

It's not too bad, is it?

So here you've got the lighter and the darker,

but here it just goes up.

OK, medium number two.

Number two. We are now ombre experts.

You add the water, I add the paint

Together we are a team.

And talking of teams, Dick and I are settling down

for another request.

I am really enjoying having a little nosy at people's houses.

Is that normal? I can't help it.

Hi, Dick and Angel.

We're Abi.

And - what's your name?

Georgie.

We'd really, really love your help with our pantry project

that we started...

...when did we start it?

When you have a young family, you can sometimes write off a decade.

So we, like, start many a project and have some really good ideas.

Aw!

Yeah, we do understand that.

So our pantry project is a small cupboard,

that's under the stairs.

For a food store, that's a reasonable size space.

So we'd ideally like the bottom bit to be like wellies or shoes,

outdoor kind of stuff,

and then it's like your cleaning products, cables...

Oh, oh, Abi.

So this pantry is not a pantry,

it's a fabulously organised store cupboard.

We'd love to finish a project, and a project that would actually

really help us as a family to know where things have gone,

because that would just make Ashley's year.

And then we can mess it up, can't we?

No, we won't will we, Georgie?

You know, I was thinking,

under the stairs by your office, to actually create some storage,

because it does feel like it's wasted space at the moment.

The chateau is full and you're talking about trying to -

how to utilise the space under one of our sets of stairs

because you need to.

Yeah. That's why we need that extension.

Oh, totally.

Sounds like I'm also going to have to make more storage here.

I've come to our stairs to call Abi and Ashley

to see how I can help them.

Hello, how are you? Hiya, Georgie. Good to see you.

Well done. Come on Angela, come and say hello.

Come on, come... come on, come and say hello. Come and say hello, look.

Hello. Hiya. Hiya.

When we saw your problem, immediately,

I was like, "We have to do ours as well."

So thank you.

LAUGHTER

Yeah, thanks, you two!

Thanks, you two.

But everybody's got a space like this,

and everybody's got a space they want to make the most of.

The first thing is I need a proper scale diagram.

The width of the door, yes?

The width of the under stairs space.

The depths, yes?

And the height at various stages.

What we need is - see, Georgie?

See this?

You need to go get one of these for measuring, yeah?

Watch this - boop!

You love tape measures, don't you?

Make sure you collect together all those elements

that you want to put in there

so we can come up with a plan.

Oh, Georgie boy, look at you.

Hey!

I mentioned tape measures and you're measuring things.

How's that?!

Good fella.

OK, listen, lovely to speak to you.

Go get your homework done.

Go play with Georgie, go and have some fun.

Wow.

Darling, girl, we are going to see how we fix Ashley and Abi's space.

Yeah? Yeah. And then any lessons we learn while he's here.

Their problems are slightly bigger than ours,

cos they've got so much more they want to put into it. Mm.

You don't know that yet.

I think that looks really good against the wood.

Wendy and Chloe have finally emerged from the fabric shop

with material they're both happy with.

But rather than the original idea of velvet,

they've gone for a denim like cotton...

I like the shade of denim, it has quite, kind of,

'70s kind of shade, isn't it?

That will look lovely. All right.

...which means a design rethink.

But I reckon this idea I have for their windows is ideal.

We're going for something a little bit more simplised,

it's called a Swedish blind.

It has the same mechanism as a Roman blind, but it's at the front.

It's quite stylish, it rolls up.

Before, we were thinking kind of drapey fabrics,

but with the Swedish blinds,

you need something a little bit crisper.

All right, going to give myself quite a long stitch on there.

And do my two lines.

All right, just take my pins out.

I'm just going to make my edges a little bit flat.

When you sew things,

getting the iron and getting crisped lines on things

often before you move on to the next step,

it's worth taking that time to do it.

The dowel, which is an eight mil dowel...

I put one...and in.

Get right to the corner.

Great.

We're going to just literally sew a straight line across here.

And voila.

This next stage is all about putting these little deemings on,

which allows you to thread the cord through.

Think I'm going to go here...

...mm-hmm, and here.

This is a little simple sew at the top.

You will need two pieces of cord.

If you don't know knots, do lots of knots.

Tie the first to the top ring behind the D-tab.

Loop underneath and pull through.

Feed across to the next tab.

Tie your second cord to the top ring behind the remaining D-tab.

Pull underneath back to the top and through.

When you pull on the two pieces of thread, up goes the blind.

OK, I think this is what Wendy and Chloe want,

something clean and modern,

and I hope this fits the bill, I really do.

And I'm really hoping Abi and Ashley

have been on a roll with their under the stairs project.

It's like a TARDIS, this thing.

Wow, Georgie.

SHE CHUCKLES

George, show us your hammer.

Wow. ls it powerful?

Yeah, watch!

Not the wall, not the wall!

HE CHUCKLES

Having had a proper clear out and taken out the stud wall,

Abi and Ashley have sent me their pantry floor plan.

Now, the numbers, I looked at them, and I thought,

"lt seems quite big." It's eight feet tall.

And so I thought the best thing I could do to picture it properly

is to make it.

So this is just the general line of the steps. OK.

So I can just move this to represent steps at different levels.

And I wanted that so I could picture where we put things inside it.

That's a big old lump of space.

You could just put in a work surface at that level.

Under the shelf, you could put things.

You see the top of the door, that's a nice space to put things

you don't want Georgie to get at. You know what I mean?

Christmas presents, birthday presents that you want to you hide.

Yeah. Now, getting in under their work surface all the way back,

the answer we talked about

was putting something that goes in and out on wheels.

Think about how we store stuff. Mm-hm.

Some stuff you need access to every day. Yeah.

Other stuff, you put away and you go to it.

This bit is the everyday pull out.

So under the work surface, every day, you just pull it out,

you get your hands to things, yep, put it back in.

But how am I going to get my stuff that's tucked away

in the back there?

The easy answer is this...

A little bit of cord. SHE CHUCKLES

Look at this, choo-choo, choo-choo. Look, look at this one.

So it's coming all the way out.

It comes all the way out underneath this box. Great.

That's great. This is our under stairs.

As you look out of the study, correct? Yep.

There's.. Oh, yeah! ..the shape, piece of stairs. Yeah.

To get stuff out, we have to be able to manoeuvre around a corner.

Mm-hm. For us to manoeuvre around the corner,

we have two boxes. Yep.

This box can come out first.

Ooh, it's a little tight corner. Choo-choo around the corner.

Yes? Y€P, Yep-

That pulls the next one out. Choo-choo.

Yep. Pull it across, which brings it around.

But it means that you just utilise all of that space there.

The whole space is used.

Are these strong enough to hold the children?

Cos I just feel that they're going to get in them.

They are. That is a toboggan.

I'm sorry. I know!

That's just Cool Runnings, isn't it? That's what I said!

At what speed can they go?!

I better make yours. Quite excited.

With our new under stairs storage system installed,

I'm chomping at the bit to get organised.

But now we can put all of our holiday towels -

because I'm sure we're going to go on holiday again.

Right, wet suits... ls this your wet suit? It is, darling.

SHE CHUCKLES When you get to a certain age,

you shouldn't wear neoprene or Lycra. It's a fact.

And we're not the only ones getting organised.

I sent Abbie instructions on box building,

and she's been hard at work

transforming their under stair space...

OK, so I finished wallpapering. Take you up.

Just need to get the shelves up now...

...and do the box.

...and Wendy and Chloe have been busy making their Swedish blinds.

No, that's us.

Better than mine.

THEY LAUGH

Right, so the system... The system. ..wheel the big one out.

OK.

Put it round. But that is absolutely perfect.

Right, now take the triangle out sideways. Oh, yeah.

Oh, look. Oh, look.

OK. Oh, my goodness me.

Start loading up. Right. Towels. Yeah.

This is good.

Big ones at the bottom, shoes and bits and pieces can go

under here. Tops and tails.

Hello, again.

That is an absolute huge amount of storage space.

Look at the size of that. It's huge.

You could get in that.

Honestly, thank you for giving me more storage in the chateau.

Every time I come up the stairs, I'm going to feel organised and happy.

Every time I look out of my office,

I'm going to be thinking, "Ooh, let's go on holiday."

ANGEL LAUGHS I like that thought.

Abbie and Ashleigh asked for help with their under stair storage,

a job that had been on their to do list for too long.

Shall we see how Abbie's got on?

Oh, yeah, definitely.

The old room, full.

Abbie must be really pleased with that.

Shelves, work surface.

It's neat.

It's functional.

They've blinged it all up. ANGEL CHUCKLES

A gold box. It might be called rose gold,

I'm not quite sure about the colour, but it's a box and it's gold-y.

This is the box, which pulls out...

Love it. Gold foil.

...and slots back in.

It's looking awesome. Really, really happy with it.

It's perfect. It's perfect.

That is very good under stairs storage.

I'm chuffed for her. Really am chuffed.

Actually, going to give her a call and tell her that,

because she did a cracking job there.

Hello! Hiya. How are you?

I'm good, thank you. How are you?

How clever are you? Let's not be shy.

Brilliant job.

And, by the way, it's all going to be about the gold bling.

It's about the gold bling. You've got to love that gold bling.

It's gold bling, and you've got a label machine.

You've done such a good job.

Does it make a difference? Do you feel organised with it?

Yeah. You do. You feel like you want to be more organised as well,

which is new for me.

You've done it now, the precedent is set. What's next?

It'll be finishing off the jobs that we've almost finished.

And I've been thinking of...l said the other day,

"Now I know how to make shelves,

"where else can I put shelves in?" And, "Where else can I

"make something to fit that we don't have to buy,

"we can just make it ourselves."

Oh, dear. That's the bug.

I'm sorry, I have taken you to the dark side.

Thank you. I appreciate it.

And well done. Well done, kiddo.

Thank you. Bye. See you anon, bye. Ange says bye as well.

Bye! Bye-bye_

Bye-bye. Bye. Bye!

She did so well.

Oh, completely.

I think it's interesting because from the start you've got

Abbie sort of saying she doesn't get things done and,

in the end, we've got rose gold bling... I know.

...and a labelling machine. I know.

Our boat on the moat, Dolphin, is now crowned with a planter.

Do you know one thing that's really surprised me

about the planter on the boat?

How much I like just dipping the bucket into the water and watering.

Oh, really? Yeah, because literally

I was thinking what we were going to do is make a little sort of

automatic water with a little pump and things you just pop in.

No, I actually like dipping a bucket into the moat and watering it.

I loved the brightness of all. Yeah.

Honestly, it's made me so happy that I can see it from our suite.

I just hope Wendy and Chloe are as happy with their planter.

Time to find out.

I'm looking forward to seeing how they got on with the curtains

as well and the fabric that they've chosen. Quite exciting.

There you go. Fantastic.

Ah, that looks gorgeous.

They've got more room for them to put things in it, as well.

Things can trail.

That yellow looks really nice with it, too.

That is going to make them very, very happy when they're sitting

on top of their boat with a nice drink in hand,

looking at their lovely flowers and sort of feeling proud.

With the herbs and things amongst it, the lavender...

But it is a garden on a boat.

Yeah. Well done.

Now, so, the planter's good.

Look at those curtains.

Happy? Yeah.

Oh, they've done such a great job.

They really, really have.

Do you know what's lovely about this?

Inside and outside, they've made a difference.

It looks stunning.

Shall we give 'em a call? Yeah.

Hello, how are ya?!

Oh, good, good. Go on. Go on.

Go on. Show us the curtain.

Och, right, OK, I will.

Pull it! Does it roll?

Yeah! Ha-ha! Well done.

It's absolutely perfect.

I love the colour, as well.

Are you chuffed?

Yes, absolutely.

It's a big sense of achievement because,

especially when neither of us could sew

and we had literally never used a sewing machine.

I loved your garden outside as well, yeah?

Uh-huh. I absolutely love it. I really do.

And it's going to be great because it's something

that's going to evolve.

Who else has got a little garden like that in their boat?

That's it.

The first of the many.

Yeah, there'll be no stopping us now.

Inside, outside, you're taking over the world, you two!

Thanks very much for all your help.

Our pleasure entirely. Take care.

And when you're on the boat,

make sure you're relaxing and smiling, you two, all right?

You know, run away, get to the boat whenever you possibly can.

Exactly.

Take care. Lovely to see you. You, too. Bye! Bye-bye.

There's one thing about buying a boat. You've always got work to do.

Fettling with your boat is something everybody has to do,

but for them, it's a complete change in their life, isn't it?

It's that escapism and they're going to get into rhythm

of going down there at weekends and when they can.

Honestly, I think they've done a great job.

Next time...

Next time you see me, I'll be naked in this bath.

...there's revelations. Ah, what a view!

Long-lost relations...

That's probably his housewife.

Aww, I didn't know that!

...and celebrations.

Wow!

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