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In the heart of the French countryside,

a magnificent chateau stood uncared for and abandoned.

Then five years ago, everything changed...

Oh, wow. Look at that.

..when an intrepid British couple...

Turn. Turn, turn, turn.

Wow.

..unlocked its front door...

Everything's gorgeous.

..fell in love with it's grandeur...

..and embarked on an adventure.

Oh, my God!

Now, over three unique episodes...

..engineer Dick Strawbridge...

..and his wife, designer Angel...

..look back at how their dream became a reality.

We never went into this project thinking it was going to be

an easy project. It was a massive, massive job.

In this special, we discover how Angel's unique designs have

transformed the chateau...

I'm taking, like, everything that I think is eye candy

and bringing it back to life.

..with her extraordinary imagination...

I'd pay £20 for that in the UK.

..creativity and style...

This is beyond better than I imagined.

..turning a cold, empty castle.

..into a home filled with warmth and colour.

You don't do patience and you don't do compromise. No.

But apart from that she's perfect.

Over the past five years, Dick and Angel

have worked hard to bring their 45-room chateau back to life.

Both dedicating their lives to creating an extraordinary

home for their family.

Everybody raise your glasses, please. Families.

ALL: Families. Cheers.

But now, we journey back to how Angel made her mark on the chateau.

With her artistic flare and unique eye for design...

..Angel has imprinted her creative touch on everything she does.

I'm bloody minded. Yes, she is.

And I know that is part of what makes me me.

With a history in design and events,

Angel finally had the opportunity to visualise her dream.

I've been in events for a long time

and every single party you do, there is an element of designing.

I've just got a bigger canvas to work on now.

So with Angel's ambitious creative plans, dozens of rooms to

transform and a limited budget,

they needed to come up with a plan.

When you've got a whole chateau to fix, you got to start somewhere,

and the honeymoon suite was your idea first, wasn't it?

With one suite, you can essentially start a wedding business.

Angel's plan was to create an

idyllic setting for high-end weddings.

And though the chateau's fairy-tale exterior fitted the bill,

the interior was rather a different story.

This room is our honeymoon suite.

When we moved in, gosh, it looked so different.

I remember.

Along the corridor, you always find

beautiful ladies here till about two.

Dick's video diary of October 2014

records the moment they first inspected the bedroom.

This is the south-east corner on the first floor.

In the corner is the tower room.

The tower room has got a window

overlooking the walled garden direction.

We've got a sink.

That's the arrow slit.

We've got a bidet.

In this room as well, in the corner,

another fireplace.

What would one day become the honeymoon site's sumptuous

sitting room was, back then, a rather more spartan affair.

Angel saw the bare room as a blank canvas,

but knew it had potential for something very special.

In the spring of 2015, Dick and Angel had just moved into the

chateau and were still working out what each room should become.

This must be the architect, no?

All of this is the structure.

How cute, just the little crests.

The chateau's original plans not only showed its design details

and layout... BOTH: Ooh!

..but also revealed some of its history.

I'm just laughing at this because it says, "Chambre de Madame".

And this is Chambre de Monsieur.

So you would live over there and I would live over here.

Not happening.

Even though the Chambre de Monsieur was the biggest bedroom

in the house, it still wasn't large enough for Angel's grand vision.

A honeymoon suite could be a bedroom and a bathroom

and just a little space - no.

Angela decided we had to have a honeymoon suite which is

the big suite.

So, what would be amazing is if you came in here

and this was your wedding salon and there was an archway

or an opening here to the bedroom and the bathroom over there.

The honeymoon suite had to be a big space.

When the bride is getting married sometimes there's 15-20 girls in,

plus a hairdresser and photographer and make-up artist.

So I knew that there were a couple of important things.

It needed to have a separate space so the bride could get in

the right head-space, and it just needed to have an airiness about it.

Angel's plan was to knock the Count de Baglion's original bedroom

into the one next-door, creating an adjoining bed and seating area.

His cabinet de toilette in the turret would become a dressing room.

Unfortunately, the wall that Angel wanted to knock through

supported one of the chateau's six enormous chimneys.

That is one of the biggest walls in the house.

OK. Pretty important, isn't it?

It's quite relevant, yeah.

But I think it... I think it's necessary.

OK.

Right, erm...

We... We...

Don't go into this being grumpy. No, no.

Go into it, it's looking like I've saved you money. No, no, no...

This is the biggest wall in the house,

and so Angela says, "Can we have an archway?"

What a monumental pain in the arse.

I believe it... Still to this day, totally necessary.

He hates it still. I mean... There's a big hole in that wall.

The hole had to happen.

That was functionality.

So a lintel was put in, and Angel put to work.

Mask on. Mask on, sorry. Ah!

Yay!

I think these are officially one room.

Now she had the layout she wanted,

Angel turned her attention to its design.

And seeking inspiration,

she and baby Dorothy ventured up to the very top of the chateau.

1952!

When we first went up into the attic,

I mean, it was pretty safe to say, we were like kids in a sweet shop.

Ha-ha!

Ah! Something...

OK, there's something living on that one.

It was very grubby. Yeah, I know.

It was very, very messy but underneath all that mess,

there were some real treasures, weren't there? Oh, absolutely.

One, two, three. Whoa!

The attic still today is a place that we love to go up

and find new things.

The chateau had been owned by the same family for 150 years

and like a lot of families,

they'd used their attic as a dumping ground.

That is a very old musket.

It's one of their...

It's typical of the French musketeers.

Your little short bit at the end there.

All this bit is missing so it's not viable, it's not a gun as such.

You must have dropped the ball in there, tamped it down,

held it up here, put it on one of

those sticks with a little V on it....

..and then got beaten by the English when you're trying to reload.

I love it.

For Angel, a 215 square metre attic,

packed with decades of ephemera, was a cornucopia of collectibles.

I get a thrill out of looking through grubby old stuff.

And finding jewels. Yeah, the gems. Yeah, finding those gems.

Now, this looks like wallpaper.

Among Angel's finds were dozens of rolls of antique wallpaper,

some dating back to the 19th century.

Now, that looks like the paper downstairs.

Wow, there's millions of them.

Gosh.

Recognising some of the patterns from around the chateau,

Angel's imagination went into overdrive.

I would wear that.

This is the one that's in our bedroom. I love this one.

I'm quite flabbergasted with how it's kept in the attic.

The colours are so pristine.

A lot of these have been hand-painted as well -

or hand-finished.

That's nice.

We do not know who in the Baglioni family chose the wallpaper.

But they had good taste. It's fantastic that we have it

and we can celebrate it.

And the way Angel celebrated it was by showcasing all

the different patterns inside the honeymoon suite's turret.

I like diamonds.

Something a bit more Alice In Wonderland about it, isn't there?

Dick and I made the promise to one another to bring this place

back to life and for me, you know, I'm taking everything

that I think is eye candy and bringing it back to life.

And together, I can feel a bit of a pulse beating.

It needed to have something, you know, with a heart.

The wallpaper's been an area that has just taken on its own

personality because, yeah, I put a harlequin pattern in it.

I chose a really elegant diamond shape, and it looks lovely

and it's made a lot of people smile.

But choosing diamond patterns were one thing, lining them

up on a curved surface quite another.

It's all about getting them lined up.

What I should have probably done was ask Dick to do

the mathematical equations and tell me,

but I'm far too stubborn for that, I'd rather work it out the hard way.

The problem was quickly solved, though, with a hint a haberdashery.

I'm loving this kind of braiding, I think it looks great.

By the summer of 2015, the honeymoon suite,

the first of the chateau's guest rooms, was finished.

It's bright and light and that's important.

You know, you need to have that space when you're getting married.

There's a lot of thought that goes into the utility

and the romance of the honeymoon suite, because...

One of the things that I love is the fact there's

an armchair in every bathroom,

with a bottle of champagne beside it,

and that sort of detail and that sort of element of it

I just think is quite special.

When I come in here and I look at this, I think,

"Gosh, I cannot believe that it is 100, 150 years old."

This room has made a lot of brides smile,

and visitors and family that come in,

they all kind of want to see this room.

It just brings me so much joy.

Well done, you. Thanks, babes.

We're looking back at how, over the past four years,

Angel's extraordinary imagination has transformed

the inside of the chateau.

And one room where it's very obvious, is in the grand entrance,

where the walls are adorned with a whole kaleidoscope of butterflies.

You know, this entrance hall, it makes me smile.

Angela starts with a picture in her mind and the direction she's going.

She doesn't do compromise...

And the fact that the chateau has got hundreds

of pinned out butterflies is just because in her mind,

she saw hundreds of butterflies taking off.

And in 2015, that's exactly what she did.

It's going to be like a big explosion of butterflies that

are going to go up the wall and the ceiling and it's going to look nice.

If I've got an idea I want to see it through

and I want to execute it the best I can.

My one reservation is that actually, even though I've done 200,

I don't know if I've got enough.

And every one takes about five minutes.

I'm not going to do the maths, but, you know, it's a lot of hours.

In fact, the display took Angel over 24 hours to create,

but it's her dedication that's transformed the chateau.

As well as a good sense of humour.

And who'd have thought we were going to have two unicorns?

Me! I thought that.

And Angel's fun with faux animals

continued to the very top of the stairs.

Yeah.

Oh, my God. Dick.

That is truly amazing.

But the faux wolf wasn't just a bit of fun.

It was also a chance for Angel to put a small part

of the chateau's history in pride of place.

The last wolf in this part of France apparently was shot out of the tower

over by our bedroom, by the old count,

and it was stuffed and it sat up there for years and years and years.

Yeah, yeah. We saw a photograph of it

and Angela got one made, so we've got like a replica of the wolf

that had been up there for probably 100 years.

A nod. Yeah, a nod to the past. Yeah.

It was soon clear that if it made Angel smile,

it had a home in the chateau.

That is truly amazing.

It's a nice little touch, isn't it? Just sort of...

A little touch? You are joking!

It's a bloody great wolf! LAUGHTER

HE HOWLS

WOLF HOWLS

In the summer of 2016, work on the Botanical Suite began.

The Botanical Suite, that was the first suite that was done

when we had a little bit more money come in

after the... Wedding. The Honeymoon Suite, wasn't it?

Located on the top floor, Angel decided that this guest suite

would have two bedrooms and a bathroom.

I think the bath was the fun in that one. Oh, the bath. Yeah. The bath.

With an eye on style, as well as the budget,

Angel had bought for the master bedroom

a second hand cast iron bath.

Listen to my idea, don't say no.

Right, I take this door off, OK?

The bath, I'm really sure, fits in just here

and then they just sit, and look - you've got the whole sky.

All she needed was for Dick to help her move it into position.

I was looking at my strong, handsome husband.

ANGEL LAUGHS

All 140 kilos of it.

Can you push it around that way?

So we don't bash the door?

Shoes in the bath...

Ah. This is just lovely.

You're pretty good about sort of committing to something

and sticking with it for a bit.

But you have been known to change if something better comes along.

Hmm.

It's not the statement bath that I was expecting.

Mm-hm?

It's a bath in a cupboard.

OK.

I just remembered I had one more option.

Having the bath in there and the bed over there.

It's a really quick one to do.

Right. Yeah, so...

Angela starts with her description of what's going to take place

with usually a bit of this...

And I don't quite know which wall she's talking about or what she means.

Usually starts with that but then it gets more and more and more focused.

This is a really important decision.

Where are you putting that?

In the middle here?

In the middle of the ground? Yeah.

OK, there's going to be pipes coming from it.

OK. OK. You don't think it's just going to sit in the middle

and be sort of magically there with pipes around it?

No, I don't think it's going to be magically... But that's what you do.

You understand why I'm saying that, don't you? Yep.

I am seasoned enough now to know...

Oh, you're so full of crap.

That's not true!

You just have this vision in your mind and wave your arms.

The door's going to open to... That's not nice. That's not nice.

Let's put this back.

If you're happy with the look of that... Mm-hm.

Let me just have a couple of hours to sort of mull it over.

DICK SIGHS

I think life is boring without challenges though, isn't it?

I don't know.

THEY LAUGH

I don't know. The answer's probably no.

While Dick worked out how to plumb the bath...

There we go.

..Angel went about creating the Botanical Suite's unique look.

My style probably has many decades amalgamated together.

I love the personal style of the '40s and the '50s.

And I love the '20s and the '30s.

For as long as I can remember, I've like old things.

Love you. Move on.

ANGEL LAUGHS

In the Botanical Suite, Angel wanted to give the Art Deco style

bathroom her own personal touch.

But she wasn't exactly sure how.

Luckily, Dick came to her rescue.

I wanted to do something with the moat.

Divers going into waters.

Couldn't quite get it to work.

But Dick actually sat there with his notebook and he said,

why don't we make the chateau like in this shape, in a V-shape

and the divers going on either side.

I was like, you're a genius!

I've always liked doing things bespoke,

and I think that's equally my obsession with vintage.

It's something that's unique, like Dick.

He's so unique. One of a kind.

To complete the Art Deco bathroom, Angel wanted an Art Deco mirror.

But as she couldn't find the one she wanted,

so she decided to try and make it.

Although the bathroom in the Botanical is very Art Deco,

I think that mirror is quite an oriental style.

And initially, we were going to do it with bamboo

but it's nearly impossible to do.

And in the end, we used these little batons.

So good, so far.

Just gave it a really good effect.

Darling, we're closing the chateau down.

We're going into mirror production.

Love it.

By the autumn of 2016, the Botanical Guest Suite was finished.

A wonderful bathroom.

This hasn't changed an iota.

There's certain things that have just not needed it, which is lovely.

Considering that this is a couple of years old now,

it's doing all right, I reckon.

Found that in the attic.

Love that.

Love that picture.

I'm really proud of this suite.

I'm proud of it because there's hardly anything in here that's new.

The bed is from a charity shop.

This little fireplace is from the attic.

I like seeing things just have a purpose again.

I think my love of old things

and probably my historical lack of money

has meant that I've always got things in charity shops

and, you know, I've put things together that all mismatch

but somehow they work together.

And I finished the Botanical Suite off with treasures from the attic.

There's lovely views in all the windows but when you get up higher

there's something quite majestic about it because you're so high up.

Feel like you're in the clouds.

You can see France and that's what you captured in the decoration, wasn't it?

Yeah. I wanted some to have of that beautiful botanics outside

and put it inside.

It felt so green and gorgeous that I just wanted that room

to celebrate that, and I like the word "botanical".

THEY LAUGH

and Angel's imagination, the chateau slowly but surely came back to life.

We're now seeing how Angel's design ideas helped create the perfect

place for both wedding guests and, more importantly, her own family.

That sounds like a brilliant idea. I love that.

Oh, what's floating over there? Oh, it's a snake. Look at the snake!

Look, look, look. Oh, it's a snake. See it swimming across the water?

Oh, yeah, there is one!

But just four years ago,

Angel was still finding it hard to adapt to life in the countryside.

I am a city girl and, erm...and it's very, very, very dark here

and I am genuinely scared of the dark.

I mean, the first year, you was away a hell of a lot, yeah.

This is not me being, "Oh, you was away."

We'd planned it, you had to be away

to put money in the pot to pay for things.

But walking around with your torch, it was a little bit scary.

I remember getting a phone call

because there was a bat in the house.

But the bat wasn't just in the house,

it was in Angel's bedroom and, as Dick was away, she got proof.

We've moved in five days and we're all sharing a room.

Well, me, the kids. Dick's in America.

And I just came in to the shadow of a bat.

ANGEL LAUGHS

I had to call Dad. Where was Dad staying?

I think Dad might have been down here then, he must have been.

Dad? Do you think we should just open that window?

It might just fly straight out. Seriously. If it goes a bit crazy,

why don't we open the window for a second?

And then he came in and he was like, "I know what to do," and he went

and got a net from one of the outbuildings.

Wahhh! ANGEL SHRIEKS

Oh!

And he caught the bat. Did he? Yeah, and he let it go.

Well done, Dad. You're a superhero.

# Doo-doo-do-do-do. #

Don't put it near me!

Despite the bat incident, Dick and Angel decided they'd keep the room.

By January 2017, two years after they'd moved in,

Angel had created two guest suites

and established a fledgling wedding business.

Bump, bump, bump. Bump, bump!

Her family though was still camping in what had once been

the Countess de Baglion's private rooms.

Dick and Angel had the main bedroom at the front.

Dorothy and Arthur the back.

And they all shared a rather ramshackle bathroom in the middle.

This was the first room that we actually got functional.

I've nearly forgotten what it was like,

but there was actually a wall here that had to be knocked down,

stud wall up.

Dick put the bath in and put a toilet in.

It did get easier.

Just because things, although it was disorganised,

it was organised chaos in there.

We knew where everything was

and even the stud wall became quite useful.

In fact, I kind of miss that stud wall.

Every noggin was a shelf.

And it was fine because we knew at some point, it would get done.

Before the wedding season started,

Angel grabbed the opportunity to move her family...

Oh, Dorothy's hairclip, I need that.

..into the much more luxurious Honeymoon Suite.

When we moved out of our suite into this suite,

it was funny because Arthur was like, "Oh, I like this!

"I really like that bath, Mum.

"Mmm, that's a nice sink."

SHE LAUGHS

Dick and builder mate Steve

though were hoping to make the family bathroom just as impressive.

Turn the tap off.

Is it off? I think it was the small one. Tap's off?

No, that's on. Turn them both off.

No, it won't go off.

While Dick dabbled with the drips,

Angel thought about the look of the rooms.

I bought this light in my favourite charity shop.

I think it was three euros.

But I love it.

I love all the stripes in it.

They're quite gentle.

It's just cute.

And I've managed to find some really,

really, really beautiful stripy tiles.

And they're going to be in the bathroom,

to sort of keep the fact that there is a little bit of a stripe theme going on.

But it's going to be subtle, it's going to be really gentle,

it's not going to be too in-your-face.

I love a stripe. SHE GIGGLES

Stripes, to me, have always been synonymous with fairgrounds

and funfairs. I think I've taken that joy from my childhood,

kind of putting into our French life.

And why not have it in the kids' room? It's a fun place to be.

Oh, that's all right, isn't it?

I think it looks quite good,

although Dick says it makes his eyes go funny.

Pleased with the results, Angel decided to extend the stripy

theme from the children's room into their own.

This paint, that is just a colour I am totally in love with.

You know, you've got to wake up and you've just got to love where you are.

I just sort of said, "Oh, right, she's putting stripes."

"Stand still, Dick."

When it came to lighting, Angel decided to go global.

I was looking at our bathroom and it's a bit too grown-up.

It's a bit too nice, it's not fun enough for the kids.

So, I did some research and I've bought three globes

and I'm going to try and make them into lights.

And we're going to

put little holes in every country that we've been to.

I've been all over Ireland.

Should we just cut this hole out?

It feels like you're going to be really competitive.

Of course I am! ANGEL LAUGHS

Right, you do Belfast.

Hmm. And what parts of America have you been to?

I've been to Miami.

Where are we? Where's Kathmandu? Oh, it's up here.

Oh, gosh, it's pressure.

Well, that's lucky because we've been all over that part of France.

THEY LAUGH

Oh, that's really neat. I love it.

And there's part of me that is, like, a little bit sad that

I've not seen so much of the world.

I've never been down here at all.

We'll have to go places to go and get extra holes.

Before she and Dick travel the world though,

Angel first wanted to give her children somewhere warm to sleep.

I think the Strawbridge Suite, it had to be fun cos it's family, isn't it?

And... It's the most occupied suite in the house. Yeah.

If you've got a family and kids, there just has to be a bit of playfulness.

When you've, like, lived out of a suitcase for a couple of years,

essentially that's what we have...

it's just going to feel really, really nice.

We've claimed the house back now and, you know, we're living in it.

The fact that this is something for us and the kids and the family,

you know, it's quite a special moment actually.

CHILDREN CHATTER

This way. Our bedroom! Our bedroom! CHILDREN SCREAM

Arthur, your bedroom. Arthur!

What do you think? Whoa!

What do you see? Good!

A lion and a tiger...

We had a couple of years with wallpaper falling off the walls,

the ceiling kind of flaking,

a stud wall was our shelving cabinet and we were happy.

Got more comfortable when we had lights.

And electrical plugs.

A few years later, it's not just comfortable, it's just home.

The kids' room, they love it still.

Although Arthur did say, "When am I going to get my own room?"

And I said, "Well, when you're ready to actually go in a room

"that's probably in the servants' quarters."

He says, "Oh, no. Not ready for that."

ARTHUR SCREAMS Oh! Look in here!

They're just happy in the space and that's so important, because

we're happy in the house.

We're genuinely very happy in the house.

It may have taken two years, but transforming the

Strawbridge Suite meant the family could finally cosy up in comfort.

A thousand things that go.

What animals can you see?

A lion!

I can see palm trees.

We got there in the end. Mwah!

Our actual bedroom and the bathroom were simple.

It was just things that, that we, I liked.

Did you hear the, "It's the sort of things that we, I like"?

Did you hear yourself? You just said that. "It's all the things that we, I like."

I know, I did say that on purpose.

We're taking a look at how Angel's stunning design ideas

transformed their 19th-century chateau

into a 21st-century home and business.

This is beyond better than what I imagined.

I love it.

One of her most impressive projects was back in 2017

when she turned two small servants' rooms into a romantic guest suite.

The boudoir wasn't a difficult suite.

Did I just say that out loud?

Nestled at the top of the chateau,

Angel's idea was to knock two servants' rooms into one,

but keep their separate doorways.

We had lots of discussion about how to make those two rooms work.

The idea of having two doors into a room...

I don't normally come in here on my own.

There's always someone to open that other door.

I like having this here.

I know what my husband says, yes, I know,

but it adds a cosiness to the rooms that I think is quite nice.

But back in the spring of 2017, Dick wasn't convinced.

Right, talk to me about this boudoir.

I love the fact that when I first saw this,

that these two doors were at an angle.

Right? And I want to keep this vestibule exactly as it is.

But, but hold on.

Can I carry on for a second then you can say?

I want to keep... This is ugly.

It's not ugly.

This angled doorway is lovely.

Whenever you go to a room

and you say, "Right, we are going to do this room."

I have no idea what direction you are going to go.

I don't want them to go, I like them

and I think they're fun and I don't want to lose the history of that.

What I would like to come down is this.

Don't, don't, don't hit it too hard or it will come down now.

OK, well, I'm quite in the mood to get that going.

Whoa, that's coming down.

Has to come down? That has to come down.

So, from here to here is a lovely bathroom space.

The second servant's room would, once the dividing wall had gone,

be turned into the guest suite's bedroom.

Obviously that's coming down as well.

Oh, that's something.

Now put this in here.

Because this was a toilette.

Have you looked inside? I have.

Still visible inside one of the cupboards

were pages from a Parisian newspaper

that 140 years ago had been used to line the walls.

That says 1880?

1880!

The Paris journals, they are beautiful.

I love that it says oriental fashion is coming in.

A bit behind the times.

There is also a really nice recipe for a chicken dish.

Chicken Royale.

Fashion for babies, for example.

But if we don't keep those, they can be forgotten too easily

and we are only part of the story of the chateau, aren't we? Yeah.

As both rooms were quite cosy,

Angel decided they'd make the perfect romantic hideaway.

I want this to feel a bit different.

I'm going to go quite dark in this room, strangely. Are you?

Yeah, I've got black and gold and...

Turkish brothel, I think was the phrase I...

I don't know actually what that means.

Boudoir is not particularly the best word

but I want a different feel to this room.

While Angel thought about the final look,

builder mate Steve began the prep work.

Steve? Yes?

Whether Dick liked it or not,

the two-bedroom doors were now officially a design feature.

Oh, yeah.

Aw. I love this.

I know it's so random but I'm so glad we didn't take that down.

Yeah. Well done.

Makes the room though, doesn't it? Huh?

It makes the room. I think it makes the room.

It does. Oh, you're so on my side.

Don't tell Dick.

I bet you say the opposite to Dick when he's around.

No, I don't. I don't actually.

Now Angel had the structure she wanted,

she turned her attention to creating the boudoir's sultry good looks.

The boudoir suite, well, it was a dark suite,

up in the servants' quarters, so it felt natural

when we celebrated it with the dark colours and dark reds.

Rich colours. Yeah, rich and dark and black and gold.

Angel was also keen to create an Art Deco style bathroom

like the one in the Botanical Suite,

but this time it was going to be a lot more decadent.

I'm always drawn to Art Deco everything

and I'm just loving all this black and gold.

I think probably my love of Art Deco is its simpleness.

They love a bit of symmetry around that time, and I do too.

And it had a real elegance about it.

Angel may have been in love with the idea,

but builder mate Steve was given the job

of turning it into a reality.

Hello, hello. I have a gift for you - dah dah.

Wow.

Right.

While black metro tiles were easy to source,

a bright gold grout was a completely different matter.

So these arrived but I think we're going to need a lot more.

I do too.

I want sort of like a lovely like shiny gold colour.

What I had seen was this beautiful picture of some tiles

with this lustred grout that was beautiful

and that was the inspiration behind the grout.

Is lustre and glitter not the same?

No, because lustre, I think in my mind,

is kind of a shimmer over it and it's much more elegant and gentle,

whereas glitter is kind of prominent.

Dorothy does glitter, doesn't she?

Dorothy does glitter. Mummy does lustre.

OK. I just don't understand.

But as Mummy's lustre was giving Steve the Midas touch...

Steve's going to glitter and shine in the sunshine

when he gets outside.

..Angel switched tactics.

It's golden grout o'clock.

A tube of gold oil paint was deemed a far less messy option,

though just as painstaking.

It's going to take a little while but it's going to look great.

Transforming the 19th century servants' rooms

into a 21st-century guest suite not only took a lot of patience

but also quite a bit of effort.

Nice and heavy, isn't it?

Mind your ankles.

And Angel's penchant for vintage lighting

didn't exactly speed things along.

I feel like I'm in trouble for getting this.

Well, you don't really think about anything else,

you just get it because it looks what you want it to be.

Well, I got it because it was also really cheap.

My issue,

I think it's the wiring.

It's a single wire going into each bulb.

And you've got to get a wire in each one of these? Hold on.

This is easy compared to the other ones you've given me to do.

Since we have started dating,

Dick has always been my problem solver, my Mr Fix anything.

I think you've made a rod for your own back.

It's my fault.

Yeah.

See what happens when you fall love.

So true.

I love you.

Yeah, I know you do. Bah humbug.

Yeah, go away.

Once Dick had worked out the wiring,

Angel gave the light a bit of Art Deco decadence

in line with the black and gold bathroom suite.

By the summer of 2017, the boudoir suite was finished.

What had once been two servants' rooms

now a romantic snug filled with rich colours and textures.

The boudoir suite was always going to be a dark suite

and it's worked really well, actually.

The blacks, the golds, the maroons, burgundies, all of it.

It is genuinely a nice place to be.

I think as a couple, it's actually, it's really romantic.

One to sit in the bath, one to sit in the chair and to talk.

It's a nice thing. It's the sort thing me and Dick would do.

And it's nice. It's a nice room.

Over the last four years, Angel's creative designs have transformed

the chateau into a stylish home...

Look at that. Oh, my God, I love it.

..and place to stay.

Which is your favourite suite?

That's hard.

It's like choosing which is your favourite child.

It is! It's not a fair question.

It's not a fair question.

I like all the suites for different reasons.

Get off the fence, you've got splinters in your bum.

It's true! I do like all of them.

Next time, we look back at the transformation

of the chateau's great outdoors...

Maybe we've got to get rid of some of the bits here.

It's not bits, darling, they're called trees.

..turning wasteland into glamorous camping...

For Angela, the concept of glamping is a hotel.

..and creating endless adventures for the family.

That's actually called marking it's territory.

See the little furry bits there? That looks like hair.

Eww! You're really disgusting!

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