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In the heart of the French countryside,

a magnificent chateau has been lovingly brought back to life

by an intrepid British couple...

Come on, missus!

...engineer Dick Straw bridge

and his wife, designer Angel.

This is the magic.

Over the past eight years,

over 50 beautiful spaces have been rebuilt, restored or reimagined.

Smile for Mummy! Smile!

The enormous leaking roof...

That's a bad sign.

The sunlight coming through the holes is not good.

...now safe for another 100 years.

The chateau's towering walls...

...almost restored to their former glory.

Honestly, I can't... You're happy, that's good. It's exactly right.

Service!

Their hard work not only helping create

a successful wedding and events business...

People are smiling and they're crying

and they're hugging and they're drinking bubbly

and do you know what? This house was meant to do that.

...but also an extraordinary family home,

bursting with love...

Up...oh! Oh!

...joy...and laughter. Argh!

Now it's time for the final chapter in this French fairy-tale.

One that is packed with new adventures...

What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop.

...mysteries...

CHEERING

...plans...

High ceiling makes me want to have a swing.

...and problems...

Oh, no! Argh!

LAUGHTER

...but best of all, a happy ending.

WHISTLING, CHEERING

The Chateau de la Motte Husson is surrounded by 12 acres of land.

But whatever the time of year, the 2,000 square metre walled garden

always holds a special place in Dick and Angel's heart.

And as they're hoping that Arthur and Dorothy

will love it as much as they do...

SHE SINGS CHEERILY

...they've come out to plant the children's choice of cherry tree.

OK. Now this one which you two chose is going in this hole. OK.

Oh, that's good. What we're going to do is

we're going to fill this hole in with this compost. Yes.

Scrape the compost in around the pot, please, and pack it in.

Away you go. Come on, more!

Put your feet in. Who's got wellies? Stamp it all in around the pot.

What I would like... Yeah? ..and this is quite important,

you plant wet, sow dry. Do you remember that, Arthur? Yeah.

So, watering can, please, Dorothy.

I'd like you to pour all that water in the middle.

OK. Now, that looks amazing.

Daddy, you have to take out the pot.

Erm...you have to take out the pot. I need to take out the pot?

Watch very carefully, Dorothy.

This is nice and wet now, isn't it? Mm. So, we know it's good inside.

If I now do...

...this... That is so perfect.

This... I love it. Watch, watch, watch, watch a second. Oh, yeah.

Watch a second. And watch this.

This is magic. Oh, yeah.

Ancl guess what? CHILDREN CHATTER

That hole is the right size for that.

So, you're going to very gently set that in,

because what could possibly go wrong?

CHILDREN: Everything!

OK, lift it up, careful, straight in.

Well clone, kids, that was amazing. Good job! Well clone!

That surprised me as well.

It does look phenomenal. Right...

water all the way around it.

Yay! Step around it, step all the way around it.

Press it in nice and tight. That's a good job. That's a really good job.

In 2014 when Dick and Angel first explored the walled garden,

only a few traces of the hard work done 150 years ago

were still visible.

You see all the wires going up the side?

That's where there's been plants in the past growing against the walls.

There's years and years of work to turn it into something phenomenal.

Eight years on,

Dick and Angel have not only managed to tame it

but have also ensured that, once again, it's flourishing.

We've got a crop rotation.

I think we're going to be more productive this year than normal.

But on the north-facing wall of the garden,

there's something rather special that they'd now like to tackle -

the original 19th-century folly.

That is not a bush.

Ha-ha! I know.

It's so overgrown that we've forgotten

that there's this beautiful tower underneath.

It may only be nine square metres, but in the past it has received

an inordinate amount of love and attention.

Somebody went to the bother of putting the granite in there,

putting the stone and the brickwork in... Gosh.

...making it a lovely folly or summerhouse.

This was built as a high-status statement.

I've never, ever thought of it like that, honestly.

Follies or "fabriques de jardin" as they're known in France,

were simply designed to delight.

Their function - just to be fun.

An idea that Angel's rather keen to run with.

It's bloody amazing.

THEY LAUGH

Since you said to me that this is kind of like

a high-status tower,

my brain is just spinning around.

So, can we kind of agree in principle

that this is recreational as opposed to functional? Please?

We can't agree that yet because we don't know what's going to happen.

OK, yeah, you have a... you do have a point

but just so you know where my brain has kind of...

sort of going out to, in trillions of places,

I can see somewhere where there is kind of like

a social...um, a social cooking facility for the adults... Ah...no!

...there's a ladder upstairs, you know, the kids could,

there could even be kind of like a little ladder that goes out

into the bamboo.

A little slide coming down. Steady. Slow, slow, slow.

Let's just see what the building looks like

and start coming with what we're going to do with it. OK.

But just give me a glimmer of a hope.

You see, we've had a little... Yes, thank you, I love you.

We could actually put pots up there, keep all the pots in there. Yep.

You've got a potting shed and all your outbuildings.

Yeah, but you can never have too many potting sheds.

You can never have too many places to have a G&T!

Although Dick and Angel are only at the start of transforming the folly,

another job - Herculean in its scale - is coming to an end.

Almost a year ago, the crumbling brown 19th-century render

on the front face of the chateau began to be chipped off...

...and a new creamier-coloured 21st-century version put back on.

Then, two months later, work began on the sides of the chateau

finishing in the spring of this year.

Now, at the back, an historical event,

at least as far as the chateau's concerned, is about to take place.

It's incredible.

Render Rob and roofer mate Steve

have reached the final section of wall

meaning almost 1,000 square metres have now been given a new coat

that not only looks good

but will protect the chateau for years to come.

Good, isn't it? I'm just...glad there's no more dust.

I know, I do feel quite emotional actually because

that's a really big job clone, babes.

All roof, all render, chateau looking brilliant.

Yep. You know how much we appreciate it, don't you?

Arthur and Dorothy appreciate it

and they don't even know they appreciate it, yeah? So, well clone.

That's very, very, very, very true. Thank you.

Ancl can we just confirm this is the colour we're going for?!

CHUCKLING

Right. I love it. I love it. Thank you very much.

With the roof and rendering now done,

the two biggest jobs at the chateau have

- to Dick and Angel's enormous relief - been ticked off.

The to-do list, though, continues just around the corner...

...because the scaffolding will now be used

for the renovation of the folly.

First, though, Dick has a bit of jungle warfare to do

in the bamboo forest behind it.

I've got a lot of bamboo.

I need basically a passageway between the bamboo and the wall

we can drive up and all the way around the tower.

HE CHUCKLES

There's absolutely no way through here.

Bamboo was introduced to Europe in 1827

and, like the folly, soon became a feature of fashionable gardens.

But what was once a 19th-century decorative detail

has now grown into a 350 square metre 21st-century forest.

If I said to Angela, I feel like David Bellamy coming through here,

she wouldn't know who I was talking about.

But here we go, we're fighting our way through.

Soon Dick's efforts not only allow the scaffolding to be put up

but also let him and Angel

reach the enormous amount of ivy sitting on top.

Woo. It feels quite high up here.

Look! Look, look, look at the top.

Oh, my gosh! There's something poking out.

Gloves on.

Phew. She's going in.

I want to see the point, and see what state we're in.

Oh, wow. It's looking quite magic although.

As ivy can climb up to three metres a year,

Dick, Angel, Steve and Rob are going to have to dig deep.

Oh, this is...this is so satisfying.

I've actually forgotten that we're up high.

The state of the roof itself is unknown

but as Dick and Angel excavate further,

it soon becomes clear that 150 years ago

it had been beautifully slated.

Oh, oh, oh, I caught them. Good, good.

Oh, look at these.

This is wonderful. They're all falling off.

I'm sorry, I'm saving them.

Right, need the snips again.

As more of the folly's revealed...

OK. It's emerging.

...the more Angel's intrigued.

I don't know, it feels like it could come off now. I don't know.

Oh, it's just...literally just coming off.

No...hey! Yes!

SHE SQUEALS

Does that come off?

There's some nails in it.

Hey. Oh, look there we go.

That's not the spike. No. I'm sure we saw a different sort of spike.

Both Dick and roofer mate Steve, though,

are sure there's a bit more chateau history to uncover.

There is more to it.

Oh, my goodness me, there actually is. How funny is that?

Ta-da. Hey! It's...

I mean, it's... I love it.

Amazing. I love it.

In the chateau's walled garden,

the 150-year-old folly is receiving some serious attention.

See, I'm sure there was

much more wood on it last time I left you there.

Yeah. Yeah?

Hold on. You have...

HE CHUCKLES

...you've stripped it away completely, haven't you?

Roofer mate Steve, though, has not only removed all the old slates

and the rotten timber,

but has also discovered some 19th-century recycling

by the original builders.

They have used what they found.

You can see like where they've cut these away

and that one hasn't been cut away when that one has.

So, where they've got bigger, thicker timbers

and they've just made them work.

But the guy who built this has built the chateau roof, hasn't he,

and his church roofs and things like that,

so, this is just what he does, they just know what they're doing.

It's interesting. We've got 150 years in some of the oak

and we're expecting to get 150 years from our new oak.

That means we're expecting 300 years from the old oak.

It will do, because as long as it stays dry, which it will do,

because you'll have a new roof on it.

You've got to love it, haven't you? Yeah. This is going to be,

when it's put back together, it's going to be stunning.

The folly, though, isn't the only unusually-shaped structure

being zhushed up.

Overlooking the moat since 2017,

the two geodesic domes and their surroundings

offer Dick and Angel's guests a rather luxurious getaway.

But after a two-year hiatus, Angel and her team

are now having to put the glamour back into glamping.

So, with guests on their way, Angel gets to work inside

while chateau helper Quentin and builder mate Steve

ensure the exteriors are up to scratch.

You know when the macrame comes out,

this room is nearly clone.

Ancl actually, it's been a lot of work

kind of getting this guest-ready

as opposed to, you know, the kids hanging out on the chairs

or us as a family going in the hot tub.

But actually, it's nice to have guests coming back.

Good. We are nearly clone.

In France, though, camping wouldn't be complete

without fresh baguettes and tasty patisseries.

Bonjour! Ca va?

Erm...

une tradition nor male, oui, et un baguette, s'ilvous plait.

Et une baguette. Bonjour! Tu dis bonjour?

Voila. Et aussi un choux, oui, un eclair... Un eclair.

Ooh. Oh, la.

Oh!

La.

Ca va alter? Boone Journee. C'est ca. Merci, au revoir. Boone Journee.

TH EY BID FAREWELL

And as soon as the kitchen's stocked up...

It's been a long time coming

putting those baguettes in that baguette box

and I have actually really missed it.

...and the guests greeted...

Lovely to see you! Hi!

...the chateau's glamping sites are once again declared open.

Welcome, welcome. Lovely to meet you.

But with a summer season packed with weddings and glamping guests,

fun over functionality has prevailed

and Dick and Angel are now keen to create a space

just for the family.

So, in the walled garden,

it's time to turn the folly from rustic to romantic...

...by creating a magical mezzanine upstairs

for the children to chill in,

a relaxing retreat for Dick and Angel downstairs

and possibly even a secret door to the forest outside.

Right, we have some questions that need executive decisions.

ANGEL CHUCKLES

Is that right? That's right. What do you want to talk about first -

the hole, the door, the mezzanine?

Well, let's start... Right...

Where we are at the minute, all right,

remember you said you wanted to have a door here.

Have you had a little look through that hole?

That's quite, quite fun, isn't it?

OK. Well, that's what the view is behind there.

I know, it's quite fun and...mysterious.

How tall do you see this door being?

Here.

That small?

That's a really small door, isn't it!

It's good. I have no problems with that at all. No, it's easy.

OK. That's cute, isn't it? Yeah.

Whenever you go to old properties

and they've got these odd, random, little doors,

you always think, what on Earth is that?

Ancl you want to go and explore.

So, I think that's exactly right here.

Just so it becomes a secret door.

Right, 0| Going back to the mezzanine level...

I don't want to lose the fact that when you're down here,

how magnificent that looks.

Can I just make a suggestion? Watch this. Watch this.

If you take this, and we go...

...this way. Mm.

Now, if you come around here and look up.

Yeah. From here, you get to see it all.

It's almost like, it's like a little secret. Oh, yeah.

This is feeling really exciting actually now.

So, while roofer mate Steve creates a door downstairs...

...Angel has had an idea for the very top of the folly.

A new weather vane to mark its renovation.

This is what we found.

No way. Yeah.

And her father, formerjeweller Papi Steve, is happy to help.

How old is that? Oh, it must be, oh, 150 years old.

OK. This will last as long. Yeah. Good.

As the original weather vane is incomplete,

Papi is not only creating a new one but also giving it some personality

in the shape of a rather familiar family.

This is going to be my sort of template...

Perfect. ..for piercing out on to the copper.

And I think that is going to look really lovely.

I, I, I agree. I really do.

Papi's weather vane might depict the present owners of the chateau,

but Angel would also like to connect it to its past.

Do you think we could at least take this shape?

Could you rivet that on as well?

I think that would be really beautiful, so...

I like that. Right. Yeah. That all works together, really. Great.

For me, this is the sort of the easy part

because now I'm leaving the hard part for you.

Oh, thank you, darling, thank you so much!

See them getting in there. It's exciting!

In the walled garden, Dick's been growing rhubarb...

It is glorious.

...and is rather keen to show his new-found forcing skills to Angel.

I'm really quite looking forward to see

how much is actually in there now. Let's find out. Undo your bungee.

Forced rhubarb is grown in warm, dark conditions

and as well as being able to grow out of season,

has a much sweeter taste than garden-grown.

Look how pink that is.

The colour is absolutely gorgeous, isn't it?

There you are, there's your first little bit to try. Are you ready?

It's rhubarby, but it's not as tart.

Mm. That's quite impressive.

Right. We're going to harvest some now.

Okeydokey. Right, should I just start pulling?

You pass them to me and I'll top and tail them.

Thank you, darling.

Oh! There's a big spider! I did not see that. Ugh.

DICK CH UCKLES

She's not quite a country girl yet. Nearly.

Nearly? I'm a hybrid.

It's huge.

Impressed by how much rhubarb he's grown,

Dick's thoughts promptly turn to liqueur.

Right, that's probably my first jar full. So here we go.

And for this particular batch of bottles,

Dick's counting on cardamon.

Fill it up.

Cardamon rhubarb's something I get quite excited about for a liqueur.

So, if I get my cardamon...

Always give it a little shake.

If you shake your thing before you open it always...

Hey, hey, hey! ..it releases even more of the flavours.

Put about a third of those in now.

More rhubarb.

This is so, so simple.

Another third.

In goes more rhubarb.

HE WHISTLES JAUNTILY

Final third of the cardamoms popped in.

Rhubarb to the top.

And to help it turn into a sweet liqueur, some sugar -

four tablespoons' worth.

So, it's all tumbling down quite nicely, isn't it?

Now fill it up with rhubarb,

Time for the alcohol.

Dick's using pure alcohol designed for home-made liqueurs like this,

but vodka works just as well.

That's about half-a-litre.

Just put the lid on here.

Turn it upside down.

Ba-boom.

See, let the sugar come through.

Back upside down again.

All Dick needs to do now is let it steep for a few weeks.

That's it.

Mind the nettles.

Nothing like going scaffolding in sensible shoes.

This IS nothing like going on scaffolding in sensible shoes.

In the walled garden, roofer mate Steve has had a tiptop idea

for the very top of the folly.

Tell us your cunning plan.

OK, well, we needed to get a window in, didn't we?

So...| don't know if you've ever heard of an eyelid. No.

An eyelid window, it sort of... No. ..swoops in up,

and then sweeps away. Like an eyelid. Yeah.

I can picture it on a thatched roof

because that's the sort of shape they're doing, yeah.

I've never pictured it in slate before.

This would be slated and then the eyelid

- if you can hold that, Dick, because we need to pull that out -

so, the eyelid will be somewhere there like that. Whoa.

So... And then... OK. The next one will be...

...that would run into the roof above.

Anything that has a curve in it just automatically has

a beauty and an elegance to it. So, honestly when you...

you just bent the batten and...| was happy.

There is a significant amount more work in this

than just putting a little flat roof in, or putting a little dormer in.

But for the next 150 years, people will just see how beautiful that is

because we have added to the beauty of the place.

I don't know, it feels quite um...indulgent,

but exactly right because it's going to change this

to something really, really special.

The answer's no!

THEY LAUGH

It's always yes. Right.

ANGEL GIGGLES

It's early summer

and the chateau's walled garden is blooming.

And on the far side, the 19th-century folly,

now not only has a new 21st-century slate roof

but even an eyelid-shaped window.

So, as roofer mate Steve has now finished his work on the exterior,

it's Angel's turn to step in and transform the folly's interior

from interesting to incredible.

I want it to look beautiful because this room is rustic.

But upstairs, upstairs has just got to be for the kids, you know,

it's their den space.

It's not big but it has got a really high ceiling.

Ancl I can't help it,

high ceiling makes me want to have a swing, you know.

But the folly's more than just a playroom

because now it acts as a bridge

between the cultivated walled garden out front

and the wild bamboo forest behind.

You look out this direction and you've got all your flowers.

But out here, we've got deer and we've got wild boar.

So, it does feel like it's flora and fauna,

and I think that I can incorporate that in whatever we do

because a den, a den needs to feel cosy, doesn't it?

So we need some cosiness upstairs, right?

The children's den may be cosy and fun

but downstairs, Angel's looking for a much more mature mood.

The pointing of this, it has really, really

made this room feel quite lovely.

It's still rustic, but it's absolutely gorgeous.

What I'd quite like, though, because I feel like it is so important,

erm, I'd quite like a nice detail on the floor,

and I just keep going back to having sort of like squared, chequered,

Victorian, erm, I don't know why, it just keeps coming to me.

But as you come in here,

you know, having

a beautiful floor and that detail is,

I think, going to change this room

and take it to quite a decadent place.

Where would you have your chairs? Mm?

Maybe it's two chairs there, Do we need two?

Chairs question mark.

We don't need to cram everything in here.

Ancl that's nice because, because it is a small area.

Put too much in here, we'll lose,

kind of lose the feel of the place.

But you can never have too many swings.

Angel may have romantic visions of the bamboo forest,

but Dick is waging war on it,

and at the moment, the bamboo's winning.

This isn't as easy as I hoped it would be.

Right.

These bamboos are well and truly rooted in.

There's. There's no. There's no movement in that at all.

Look at that. That's rock-solid.

That's why I have to clear this.

To stop these spreading and spreading

because the strength of those roots will push into the wall.

Good chance they'll make the wall bend.

Not into that.

Right, I'm going to keep digging along here.

In Papi's workshop, though,

the atmosphere is one of peace and precision.

Right, there's all the little holes drilled for these pieces

and they've all got to be cut out now.

The new folly weather vane will be made out of copper

and that means Papi has to very carefully saw around

the silhouette of the Strawbridges.

Going to be quite a nice little moment here,

as this piece drops out,

you have to see a bit more of

the shape. Which will be really nice.

You can actually see what it is now, can't you?

That is quite satisfying that.

Right, let's see if we can start to bring Arthur into play.

From top to toe,

the folly's slowly being brought back to life.

And it's now time for Angel

and builder mate Steve to talk tiling.

I found the perfect tile.

It's like this black-and-white checker.

I just thought it was exactly right

and Dick said to me, "We can't have that,

"it's not an outside tile."

So, I found this range.

Oh, hello, Petal... Petal loves it, thank you.

And as Angel likes to make a grand entrance,

their positioning needs to be perfect.

Which isn't easy when every angle isn't.

I'd like the points to start symmetrically.

From the centre. From the centre of the door. Right.

This is going, obviously measure it up.

That's going to go here.

There's nothing symmetrical or straight in these rooms. No.

Do you want to lay a centre line for me?

Yeah, I'll do that.

Yeah, all right. Thanks Steve.

You're welcome!

While builder mate Steve tackles the tiles...

...Angel goes for the soft touch.

So, the folly is split into two.

We've got our downstairs, which is lovely and fun.

But of course there's somewhere upstairs for the children that's

gonna be fun, it needs to be cosy.

Things to sit on. I don't really want chairs.

I just want everything to be soft,

so beanbags seem like the total obvious thing.

This beanbag pattern is the easiest one in the world.

The most difficult thing really is choosing your fabric.

And when you've chosen it,

first fold it in half, and then cut it to shape.

That is, that's my pattern.

So...

...my zip about...

...here and here.

As bean bags are notoriously baggy,

a couple of notches in

the corner will later help line up the bottom seam.

OK. One more nip. This is the important nip.

The simple but clever bit... right.

And then it's just

a matter of sewing up the seam with the zip.

I'm giving myself a lovely big seam

because we're going to do a zigzag on

the edge of it after.

I've no doubt that I'll sit on it at some point.

Ancl I don't want to I don't want to rely on just a single seam.

So, this is why we get the notch in there

so you can match up centre front to the back.

Ancl now I'm going to sew.

I'm going to sew crossways here.

Ancl I've got the shape of

my beanbag. I love little things like that.

Finally, pull the patterned side out

and the job's done. Or nearly.

OK. Now, before I...

Before I do the extra reinforcements

and the zip...

...check, make sure it all fits.

If you make a liner...

If the kids are a little bit grubby one clay

and they sit on it, it don't matter

because you can take it out and wash it.

Right.

Do you know what, this is actually

a big comfy cushion, isn't it, with a little bit of shape?

Ancl you know I've got the flora, I've got the fauna,

and I think they complement each other.

I love Dorothy's choice of butterfly and this is quite,

quite fun - I'm chuffed.

Making Arthur and Dorothy

comfortable up in their den is one thing.

Ensuring they don't fall rapidly back down to Earth, quite another.

And as soon as he's back in his workshop,

Dick starts work on a bespoke banister.

If they're falling asleep and they roll over the edge

and fall down the stairs, it'll be Daddy's fault.

So here we go. 1,000mm...

And, once Dick's calculated the capability of a child

to either fall down, trip up, or get stuck...

I think they'll struggle to get their head through that.

...he sets to work making a bespoke childproof banister.

One, two, three, four, five. That works for me.

This is now my template for every one.

Use the same one for every time you cut,

cos that way, you don't get slightly creeping increase.

Five - they look something like that.

Ancl then - watch this bit here. Sit on the top like that.

They can't fall down that one, can they?

Now though, it's Papi's moment to shine.

Because his handmade weather vane is ready for unveiling.

OK, I can't wait any longer. Go on, Papi.

Who's excited to see?

And the whole family has come out to cheer him on.

Oh, wow.

What do you think of that? Do you recognise this?

Oh, Dad, it's amazing,

You've clone an absolutely amazing job because that's,

that's Dorothy, that's Daddy, that's Arthur and there's me.

That's me.

We love it. Well, thank you darling.

There was one other little thing, yeah, that you recognise?

Oh, my goodness, I haven't even...

See this shape, I recognise it, see this shape here.

That shape was up there in

a piece of zinc on the top when we found it.

Dad, it's absolutely stunning. Thank you, thanks Dad.

All right. OK, all right, darling.

Let's go and stick it up. Let's stick it up there.

Off you go, can't wait, good luck.

Papi's weather vane though, isn't just a work of art,

but also a feature for future generations to admire,

whichever way the wind blows.

Looks lovely from up here, you know.

HE SHOUTS: Don't drop it, the pressure's on you, Grandad.

ALL SHOUT AND CHEER

Yes!

It looks amazing.

Are you feeling very proud? Let me take a proud picture.

The chateau's 19th-century folly is being made safe for

the 21st century.

A new oak banister is being put up to prevent Arthur

and Dorothy falling down. I need a wedge in that, don't I?

But unfortunately, not Dick's wooden wedges.

It's called gravity.

OK, so that's two - that's in.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's all right, next one.

How many more wedges did I bring?

I'm collecting them on the floor.

The mezzanine level, though, will soon turn from potentially perilous

to relatively risk-free.

In Angel's wedding workshop,

the only flowers currently being made for display are of

the printed kind.

I bought loads of sort of vintage botanical flora

and fauna pictures.

They are printed onto kind of like

a waterproof canvas, which means that if

I put them outside, they won't get mouldy.

But as Angel is going to display them

in the newly refurbished folly,

solving the problem

of damp air is one thing, aesthetics quite another.

I was looking for picture frames to put them in.

Ancl actually,

I thought, "I don't need a picture frame."

A bit of wood at the top

and a bit of wood at the bottom's alll need

and I think they look really good.

And once the oak off-cuts are ready to go on...

Got my bottom piece.

...all that's needed is some sticky tape on steroids.

Carpet tape is brilliant,

I've used it loads in Dorothy's doll's house

because it's really, really sticky.

You know,

I prefer it to a picture frame, if I'm honest with you.

In the folly,

it's now Dick's job to turn an unusually dinky door into

a secret portal.

Ha-ha. I know the image that Angela has in her mind,

it's going through the wardrobe of Narnia,

going into the next...

I can just see it in her mind, yeah? Um...

just put a little bookcase over there, to cover it.

So, it looks like you can't see the door.

That's not easy.

So, a 50 will fit inside it.

OK - the height.

Has to be 1.30 with a 1.22.

If I put this along here like this,

this wall here doesn't line up

with that wall.

40 - what could possibly go wrong?

Back in the workshop, Dick's hoping his mismatched

measurements actually match up.

You can tell this is going to be a bookcase, can't you?

But actually, we don't want a bookcase.

We want something that is a secret portal to

the next part of the world. Right, to make it that, I've got

a little trolly thing just chopped up.

Ancl with a bit of luck, if I screw this on to here...

That's one.

There we go.

So this is a bookcase

that can move in and out of a secret doorway!

The 19th-century folly may now have a 21st-century roof,

window and weather vane.

But it's not just

the outside that's a mix of old and new.

Some of the snuggly blankets, please. Oh, and the telescope.

The legs.

Lovely.

Look, things are rehoming themselves.

Perfect. See this is the thing,

as the kids grow older, we put things in the attic,

but then they can have different uses so...

OK, good, good. Actually,

that one can go upstairs as well. Thanks.

Watch.

Lovely.

Angel does have one last favour to ask, though.

Ha-ha. just in case there's a chance, there's

a chance we can put this up.

Just in case? Mm-hm.

You want this upstairs?

Yes.

Have you seen how high the actual structure is

to hang this from?

That's gonna be several metres away from the top.

No, don't go like that, who are you kidding?!

Mwah, mwah...! OK.

For decades, the chateau's folly stood forgotten,

but now its full majesty has once again been revealed.

And even completed with

a copper crown, provided by Papi Steve.

Knowing that the weather vane is up there

and that my clad made it, and all four of us are on it,

is just the cherry on the cake, isn't it?

Ancl the eyelet,

it just looks out over the garden and the house

and I just think it's a very special place up here.

And as the main function of the folly's just to be fun,

Angel's ensured

the inside lives up to expectations.

I can't wait for the kids to see this.

I will be really happy for the kids to just be up here

and just to play.

Cushions, twinkly lights,

I mean, it's

going to be somewhere quite magical for the kids.

It's also Dick's nightmare.

Ancl that is why downstairs is very, very different.

So, with great restraint...

One cushion, each chair.

I'm being very, very, very good.

...Angel makes her finishing touches to the folly.

Though her idea

of minimalism is, shall we say, rather small.

I mean, I know I said no twinklies

but this is kind of actually no twinklies.

And so, what was once damp and derelict,

is now repaired and restored.

Its floor not only level,

but also looking good.

And the 19th-century whimsy now filled

with 21st-century comfort and colour,

as well as a bit of magic.

There you go, one door-hiding bookcase.

Ha-ha.

This is good. I love this. "|nsectes nuisibles".

I haven't even heard that word

before. Nuisance insects. Really good.

I can't wait for the children to see it as well. Well, come on.

Bom-bom-bom-bom. Only when you start putting it -

you realise just how...

That went straight in!

And with the secretive shelving in place,

the transformation of the folly is complete.

An old building now set for new adventures.

It does not look like a doorway. Honestly.

It doesn't look like a doorway that's...

You have,

you have absolutely nailed your remit.

And for Arthur and Dorothy,

a whole new magical experience is about to be revealed.

Wow! Da-da-da!

Wa-hey-hey. There's a hidden door!

Do you want to see the door opening? Yeah!

Watch - it slides out, give me a hand, you two.

Oh. There's a hidden door. Towards the ladder...

Whoa!

I'm going as well because, I kind of want to get dressed up like Narnia.

See you later.

But before Arthur and Dorothy walk too far into the woods,

there's a magical mezzanine to explore.

Put your right foot on there, you're up there.

Oh, cool.

One foot at a time, Arthur.

Well clone.

Are you up? What do you think, children?

It's good!

Are you having fun up there? BOTH: Yes.

This is my area now.

OK.

And now the children are settled...

I think this is now my most favourite place in the world.

...so can Dick and Angel.

Would you like a drink? Is this rhubarb from our garden?

This is the pink rhubarb.

Oh, that is lovely.

You two OK?

I'm drawing Arthur sleeping.

IMITATES SNORING

Ha-ha!

You know what this has clone?

This has changed the way we'll use the garden.

This is exactly how I kind of pictured it to be.

Next time...

Oh, my God, he's putting his feet in!

...there are mudlarks.

I can't believe how deep this is.

Light touches.

If there was ever a moment

to put out some macrame lanterns, it would be now.

And grand entrances.

Ha-ha-ha. Welcome!

Oh, look at this. Woo!

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