Home tour: a home in the vineyards of Beaune

[Music] Bonjour. Welcome back to Burgundy. I am taking you to my friends Kate and Nathan's new home. You may remember them from the earlier video I did of their previous beautiful cottage and early 2025 they moved into this former wine maker's home and I cannot wait to share it with you. >> Welcome to Lison, >> our new house in Burgundy. >> Hey, we're Kate and Nathan and we welcomed you today into our new house here in Burgundy. We moved to Burgundy 18 months ago permanently from just outside of Melbourne, Australia. And the ultimate goal for us was to set up a business and have a home where we could welcome guests for accommodation, but also providing some tours of the region. So, we're restaurant tours back in Australia. And now we've set up the house to do cooking classes and some catering and private events. >> So, the house is uh a maison vineyard. So, it's an old wine makers house. Um, it was built in 1870 and it was empty for 30 years when we purchased it. >> We felt we were we were in the countryside last time. So, we went with more of a country feel, very sympathetic to the area. This we felt we're kind of in the country. It feels a little bit like a modern loft as well, like a big open space. So, we decided to combine some contemporary um art and objects and furniture with more traditional from the old house. And I think it's blended together really well. Almost everything you see apart from a couple of new pieces, the couches and and the beds, but everything else you see is from Brokants and antiques stores and vid granier and things >> because that that's kind of our hobby and my obsession is collecting uh beautiful pieces to to use every day and and enjoy every day. And I think if you put all that together, it can work to make a a cool collection of interesting things. We tried to reintroduce some elements into the house with the the trim and the paneling on the walls and the ceiling roses and the the cornice and and things like that that that give it a bit of character and and give it a bit of um kind of that timeless look. coffee table's a bit unique. If we go to the other side, you can see perhaps here there's um ornate detail. It's was actually an Indonesian daybed and we found it uh at a local bant and it was much taller. We cut off the legs. It was a reddish brown color. Yeah, we've always wanted a big coffee table like this for for books and you know sit around with appero >> one of our favorite pieces. >> So in addition to art and cookbooks and other things we bought from Australia. This is a crazy piece that we bought in Jalong at a little uh flea market. I'm not sure if it was the base of a table or what it was. It was cream. I painted it gold by hand and we put it in the container and brought it with us and just last week made it into a lamp. The idea is here that we can fit six to eight people for a cooking class with Nathan teaching uh in his in his favorite place over there and uh guests can come and learn and experience. It's interactive. It's really fun. So yeah, we always wanted to have the big island to be the center of the the house and you know the the heart of the kitchen. So we just wanted this huge space with nothing on it so we can do the classes demonstrations but also you know when we host parties and have friends just everyone hangs around the table around the island with food and wine and and yeah it's a fantastic space. We went with a local company uh to make the kitchen for us. Uh they're about 20 minutes away in a small village, but they did an exceptional job with the cabinetry. Uh we brought our old oven, the Lacon, which is very special to us, which is a Burgundy made oven. We've been able to have lots of storage and cabinetry and cupboards where all of our platters and dishes and glasses and all of our different cooking tools we've purchased over the years at Brokants and and special shops. It's my favorite room in the house and yes, love to spend as much time here as we can. So, we wanted uh to have a little whiskey gentleman's room, but we prefer the open space. So I have a a corner where I can sit and play guitar and listen to music with the paint colors. Um it was a real passion of Kate's and and she did an absolutely amazing job. We chose some some bold colors I would say but then also tried to make them very sympathetic to the the style and um >> kind of the era as well. They're historic um colors. Um they are British British colors from a British uh company called Faroh Ball and we've used them throughout the home and we yeah really happy with the results. All the children have said, "Mom, can I have my room this color? I want to move into this house." I don't know something that about color that younger children really relate to, but it was it's been really interesting to notice that. >> I think we've actually committed to a different color in every room on every surface. >> Sure. >> You joked and you said, "If the dog sits still too long, I'll paint the dog." >> Yes. >> But, uh, no, I think it's it's turned out really well. We wouldn't change a thing. This little box was was a very very sweet, but it does house my little collection of um knife rests. So, Nathan bought the poodle nice knife rests uh for me. We use them as often as we can and they live in their little dog box. We didn't bring very much from Australia, but what we did bring were pieces of art and books that meant a lot to us. >> Yeah. So, this painting is a a painting that Kate's dad gave to her, and it's a a spot in Melbourne that they used to go and visit and have coffee and yeah, anytime we would go to the city and in Melbourne, we would always go here. And we've tried to incorporate some artwork that's that's really special to us and and um yeah, means a lot. And art and books, I think, are one thing that can really uh make a home your own. So these two rooms um this was the original toilet in the house. Now it um just had the evacuation point. There was no water or anything, but this was at one stage a toilet. And this room was the uh original bathroom and we've turned it into a laundry and a additional fridge and Kate's storage for her brokant addiction of green and white plates. It gives us a good space to keep all of our linens and and towels and servettes and all the things we need for when we host guests. The largest pieces of furniture in the house are in the smallest room in the house, too. >> I love it. >> That was fun. >> All the china is really accessible, so there's no excuse not to use all the beautiful vintage pieces every day. >> It's a radish bowl and it has holes so you can actually put them in and wash them. And this it has a little straining holes. We bought that at um the rest this year. Yes. >> Always looking for very interesting pieces like that. [Music] [Music] this was a corridor, I guess, and we wanted to make it like a little extra sitting space also to house our collection of books. Nathan built this little library for me. Uh, it's something I'd always wanted to do above doorways I think is is pretty cool. Uh, we collected some vintage books and then other books we brought with us, books on food, wine, decor. So, it's an ever growing collection of books. I always want to to add to our collection. Uh, we have my little quirky thing here, the wall of dogs. So, at Bcons and Flea Markets, I try to find antique pictures of of dogs. And Teddy does have his own little portrait here. Throughout the house, uh, we've decorated and and designed and made things ourselves wherever we could. So, I just took a really inexpensive white uh uh lampshade from a like a $2 shop and painted it in the colors left over from from the house. And it turned out really well, I think. Make some interesting curtains. Uh I felt like I had to make them myself. And cushions, so kind of hard to find. So, throughout the house, yeah, you'll see things that we we've made. the fabric, a lot of it's vintage from from op shops and and uh people's uh garage sales. This hallway led to four bedrooms. Every bedroom had its own wallpaper, its own colors. It was kind of all over the shop. So, we decided to rip off all the wallpaper, clean the ceilings that were covered in a thick mold, black mold, um throw open the windows, dry everything out, and start from scratch. And we've created three bedrooms now. the blue room, the pink room, and the green room. And we've created a really big bathroom from the green room. And each of these rooms has its own bathroom now as well. This is the blue room, Shan Blur. And I think it's the most cheerful and bright and happy room for me. I love the colors. So, the rooms are pretty, but we think it's enough space for people to be comfortable. Everyone has their own bathroom, the shower and toilet and sink, some storage space, and it's just a really, I think, cheerful and lovely place to stay with us. So this fantastic headboard I made with the help of a poster a friend in our old village of Luc Lec and we've created three different ones but I think this one's my favorite. It's very cheerful. Uh and then Nathan and I collected all the other pieces from vintage shops and broants and he made the lights for me. Uh which is an pretty easy thing to do. H and we have a beautiful view out the window. All the bedrooms have views of the vines. This is the pink room shamro which is very sweet. I think it's very calm and soothing. Still very pretty and colorful. Uh but also a very sweet sweet room. He was in our old house and we brought him here with us. This room has kind of almost ended up being the animal room with the rabbit, the ducks behind you, some more birds over there. Wasn't planned, but it just happened. And this is the last bedroom, the green room. Share. This is where we put a hole in the wall and opened up this bedroom into a a big bathroom. And we shifted the wall maybe half a meter this way to create kind of a suite. Um the big bathroom, the bathtub using antique and new pieces again in that kind of combination of old and new. [Music] Wonder. [Music] [Music] This is another room where there's lots of pieces that we've collected over the years from um different charity shops and amuse here in France. Um bants uh but then also making lampshades and and this little bench over here. Uh the bed head again. But everything together kind of creates the the the homeliness that that we were looking for. And yeah, really eclectic. I think it's from 1910. And then cleaning it up, it came out just beautifully. [Music] [Music] It's so nice cooking like this in summer. Just very, very fresh ingredients, very simply prepared. [Music] [Music] Yes, please. >> Such a good idea. [Music] >> Come on, baby. >> I have it. [Music] [Music] And you're [Music] >> special. Oh, and I'm going [Music] With our our first house, we had some criteria of things we wanted and you know, I wanted to be in a village and I wanted a cove and we wanted to be a certain proximity to bone and um at the time it just didn't fall into our budget and what we were wanting to do And um but this house in particular um being a Mason vineyardon, there's two beautiful um >> yeah kind of vaulted arched cos which um is really special for us. We've been able to keep one of them for wine storage and the other we've set up to do digestations and tastings and we'd like to host some little private dinners down there and um yeah, it just gives us a lot of potential and and it gives the the house a real character and and charm and it has the the wine cos that I've always [Music] We seem to be have the best of both worlds here. That, you know, if we go 5 minutes to the west, we're right back in that very rural country, rolling hills and farmland. But if we go five minutes to the east, we're in the Mange and into D Santine and some of the most beautiful wines of the region and beautiful areas of of Burgundy. So we we feel like we've we've kind of hit the jackpot with this particular village cuz we really are we we do have the best of both worlds. >> You can see vines from every window and that's really exciting for us because with our love of all things wine and food. Uh, but I think it's the perfect village and the perfect house for us. [Music] Go, Bridget. Go Audrey. [Music] [Music] Thank you so much, Kate and Nathan, for opening the doors to your home again for us. If you want to stay with Kate and Nathan or enjoy one of their cooking classes or wine tours, I have included a link to the website in the description box. If you want to enjoy more home tour videos like this one, be sure to subscribe to my channel and I will be back with a new video soon.