A Grand Salon, a Vintage Fridge, and a Lot of Elbow Grease! 💪🏻
The Chateau Diaries · 24:29 · 1 weeks ago
Stephanie continues renovating and organizing her new property, La Touche, by relocating furniture, establishing essential utilities, and cleaning appliances, while balancing these tasks with household cooking and social activities.
- Furniture movement — Transferring stored items from Lalande to the new house to clear storage space and help visualize potential room layouts .
- Utility management — Arranged contracts for electricity, gas, and fiber optic internet, while delegating local town office errands for a later date .
- Appliance deep-clean — Scrubbed a long-neglected refrigerator with bleach to eliminate stains and odors, noting that baking soda will be used for a follow-up cleaning .
- Product promotion — Used an LED face mask as a relaxing break during the demanding workday .
- Kitchen experiments — Tested a new egg cooker to simplify poaching, which succeeded after troubleshooting initial cracking techniques .
- Prepared a peach melba pavlova for the group using fresh nectarines .
- Room atmosphere — Added lighting and tables to the salon to make the environment feel less clinical and more welcoming .
- Birthday celebration — Gathered in the china pantry to surprise Dave with a song .