A beautiful pantry for our farmhouse in France

welcome back to the pantry where we can finally start putting the storage unit that we've built together so I am so excited to be sharing what that will look [Music] like [Applause] [Music] so as you've seen in earlier videos we're using part IKEA cabinets and partly a unit that we've built ourselves I am going to paint all these IKEA cabinets the same way I painted all their doors so that means sanding them with 120 grit first then um wiping them down to take the Dust Away then putting on a primer that is special primer that is suited for these very smooth surfaces that the IKEA furniture usually has and then two coats of the actual paint so that's going to take me a while even though it's not a lot of surface that I need to cover for this last bit the clue meanwhile Olaf is finishing the walls in the pantry and it was a bit of a challenge because he's not using the same product that we usually use if you follow his channel this footage is from his videos he shares all the details of our building works you will know that we use a traditional lime render that is all natural I think it's the best and the most beautiful product to use to render your walls but it's a little fragile for such a heavyduty space and also this wo would need some prep work before you can actually apply it so he wanted to go with something different he asked for advice at the hardware store and they advised this which is called an Andre mono that you would use actually for exterior walls but you can also use it for interior walls but it's not the kind of product that we would use in the Netherlands he's been looking everywhere for it he couldn't find it and the guy at the hardware store said well that craft doesn't exist anymore people in France is what he said prefer to just put a PLO so a drywall up to this wall and then plaster that people don't according to him put that yeah plaster kind of thing on a wall like this so the produ that we are so familiar with in the Netherlands and everybody on his channel because his channel is in Dutch said you should have done that it is not available here in France so he used this and monush it was a little harder than he thought but he managed to finish the entire Pantry so we can start putting in the unit you've seen us putting it in that was to take the measurements and see if our fridge and freezer could still fit and how we were going to how far far we were going to put it to the left or the right of the wall and we actually needed to move it a little bit to the left where there was Plumbing for a future bathroom on the other side of the wall so we need to do some hacking but we can finally start putting this entire thing together [Music] now [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I [Music] I am so happy to see this Pantry well it's not finished but to see this Vibe and see how it will look because I have seen this kitchen in my head for over four years we moved to France 5 years ago about a year into living here we started Des designing all of the plans for the house and yeah we started building this kitchen this part like the barn conversion of the big renovation project this is the barn we're converting that into a living space our kitchen pantry and a bedroom upstairs and we started that over two years ago almost two years ago now this week and yeah I'm not a very patient person so it's not very easy for me but I am also really excited to see this because I am going to do something really exciting and special in September and the kitchen is such an important part of that maybe you've already heard about this in my last video but I'm organizing a French country life experience in [Music] September during this intimate 4day experience I am going to invite you into my home here in burgundy and going to show you around this beautiful region I'll take you bant shopping one day to a couple of the best places in my area we'll be cooking in my beautiful new kitchen and in The Farmhouse that I've booked for this small group maximum six people can join this experience we will also of course discover the market in bone go shopping for our fresh produce there so we can cook a lovely meal and I will also take you to a real French bakery where Marie is going to teach us how to make real French baguettes and since Harvest will be in full swing around this time we are of course going to discover The Vineyards I will take you on a tour in a classic car and with a local guide that's going to drive us through the lovely Vineyards tell us all about the Burgundy wine region and we're visiting a local Wine Maker's Harvest where they'll tell us all about what the Harvest looks like and what happens when the grapes are picked and all those things that I don't know if you have those questions but I did when I first moved here I didn't know a lot about wine making and we'll be exploring a quaint little village spent lots of time eating together talking about Life Sharing Joy and laughter and good food and yeah a proper French country life experience so I would be absolutely delighted to have you join us in September I have put a link in the description that you'll find below this video and if you have any questions or if you want to do a zoom call with me just to see if this is a good fit for you you can send me an email at bonjour at lasource Bon .r and I'd be happy to answer all of your questions so now let's get back to the video and see how this Pantry turned out [Music] for for um so I've put a couple of things in quite honestly I shouldn't because as you can see this is not finished Olaf needs to put in the floor and the ceiling um but it did give me a feel for how I how I've envisioned this so this will be a closed penry the freezer will be there can't really see it here but anyway the fridge will be here in the corner right when you come in but I just had this image of let me see if I don't trip this is our kitchen the kitchen's going to be like that with an island in the middle and then when I'm cooking and I need something from the pantry you open that door and it still looks very very nice you still feel this oh I've I had open shelving in our temporary crappy little kitchen and I've noticed how much I love being able to see like for example now I was like oh you know we're almost out of this and it's just so much easier for me now to go in get what I need also to have my boys help me cuz my son was looking for corn just now and said he couldn't find any and I said I'm sure it's in the old kitchen so this this way nothing is hidden behind something else and they everybody can just find what they need so I am very happy with this I will need to take all of these out stock up clean them by the time that Olaf has finished uh doing the finishes in here and obviously since we're building a kitchen here things are going to be very messy still but at least I wanted to give you a little preview of what that will look like and and give myself a little preview of what that will look like so yeah let me know what you think and thank you so much as always for watching and I am so excited for our kitchen build to progress yeah this by the way is the card that the previous owners left us when we bought the house and it has a really nice lovely little message on it so I put that in the frame and I want to keep that voila that is it thanks for watching and I hope I'll be back with an update on our kitchen build very [Music] [Music] soon [Music]