Castle Impossible is off the air at HGTV, but Daphne and Ian continue to share their progress on the chateau
Daphne and Ian gave their fans a sneak peek at a new project.
Castle Impossible has officially wrapped up, but, luckily for fans of the show, there’s plenty of castle that still needs to be renovated! The HGTV cameras have stopped rolling, but Daphne Reckert and Ian Figueira have been hard at work updating their 500-year-old chateau outside of Paris.
In case you missed it, the stars of Castle Impossible also run a YouTube account called The Beau Chateau, and they share their renovation adventures with their 130,000 followers. Recently, they shared a peek at an unseen powder room and got to work renovating it.
In the new video, Ian explained that he and Daphne uncovered 400-year-old artwork in the property that they’re restoring. But first, he said that he would need to finish chiseling in the adjacent powder room because it will throw dust on the artwork. “We don’t want to clean it just to get it dirty again,” he explained.
The project exposed the hand-painted ceiling, and a few of the boards had fallen into disrepair. “We’ll see if we can color match this and find some flat sheets of oak and maybe we can paint them,” Ian said.
“After taking a closer look at the ceiling, it seems like someone was doing some plumbing work in the upper level, and that must’ve broken those two boards,” he continued. “So instead of just going to the store and buying new sheets of oak to replace what’s broken, we thought it would be better to upcycle one of these old shutters.” He and Daphne then got to work painting the boards to match the original artwork before he replaced them in the ceiling.
Fans are loving seeing the duo’s progress and they lovingly restore the chateau and left comments on their YouTube video like “Thank you, this is the only way I will ever see these magnificent treasures” and “thank goodness! i was going through withdrawal!” Another commenter wrote, “Also delicate and beautiful. I’m glad your chateau is being rescued. I hope more chateaus are getting rescued and not being left to die.”
HGTV hasn’t shared any updates on the future of Castle Impossible, but we’re thrilled to follow along with Daphne and Ian on The Beau Chateau!
