会合，会う the Aussie family who sold everything they had to buy and renovate a run-負かす／撃墜する 14th century French chateau for 2 MILLION EURO

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A の近くに-knit family, with an 勧める to return to their European roots, have given up their beach-味方する Sydney 高級な life and sold everything they own ーするために move into a run-負かす／撃墜する French 城.

The Bromley family, from Mosman in Sydney's northern beaches, have taken it upon themselves to 回復する a romantic 14th century French chateau to its former glory and 株 it with romantics everywhere by transforming it into an affordable boutique hotel.

Sher Bromley told Daily Mail Australia that she and her husband, their three children, their son in 法律 and two of their grandchildren have been sleeping on 空気／公表する-mattresses since arriving at the Chateau Le Mung in the south west of フラン two and a half months ago.

The family of gyprock 労働者s, who bought the 所有物／資産／財産 for two million euros and 始める，決める aside another million for the 革新, are 完全に 献身的な to turning the 20 acres of land and its buildings into the romantic fairy-tale it once was, but they have a lot of hard work ahead of them.

'It wasn't やめる like the 宣伝. The outside has been a bit of challenge ? I'm not a gardener and this is like having a garden or steroids,' Mrs Bromley said.

'最初, it was the 完全にする opposite of what we were 推定する／予想するing. The outside is 完全に overgrown ? you couldn't see the outhouses and the summer house was also 完全に overgrown.

'It sits on 20 acres, so there's a lot of （疑いを）晴らすing. There's these horrible 厄介な bushes called brambles and they're taller than me so we've had to get a lot of 激しい 義務 道具s to 削減（する） and slice through them. We also have to put in a new septic 戦車／タンク.

'So, all that is happening at the moment and we still have to throw all this stuff out before winter comes so that we can work on the inside.'

Within, the 16 bedroom, two-story 城 has also 苦しむd 広範囲にわたる 損失 and minor 悪化／低下s through ageing, and will 要求する a 広大な／多数の／重要な 量 of re-patching and 回復するing.

'Inside, the ground 床に打ち倒す was the worst, because they 港／避難所't 削減（する） the tress away for some time it got very damp and so there's a lot of rotten panelling and plaster ? but all the problems are just cosmetic. The building is still sound,' Mrs Bromley said.

Underneath the 割れ目d paint and peeling plaster, Mrs Bromley said that the Chateau's history continues to peek through the more they （疑いを）晴らす.?

'We know that it was built in 1301 and that because it's by the river trad ers used to come here to 支払う／賃金 their pass so they could 貿易（する） at the time. I also know that an Irish sailor married into 王族 and they lived in the chateau,' Mrs Bromley said.

'But there is a big gap in the history of is 所有権, 権利 in the middle. A family lived here just before the [second world] war, and the gardener and chauffer lived in the cottages, but after that we don't know. A lot of things were taken over by the Germans at the time, 特に big houses and 城s, but we don't know what happened or who moved in.'

She said the family keep discovering more and more as they continue to 直す／買収する，八百長をする up the 城, 含むing the 初めの stables, winding circular staircase and cellar.

'We 設立する stuff everywhere. The ground 床に打ち倒す has the 初めの 床に打ち倒す tiles and they're beautiful and still 完全に 損なわれていない. We also 設立する through cutting 支援する all the shrubberies, the water tower and 井戸／弁護士席s are all 初めのs. There's also a laundry which has a sunken 床に打ち倒す where the water （機の）カム in and they washed inside a big bath tub - the whole room is like a paddling pool - and the old taps are still there,' Mrs Bromley said.

?'A lot of the 塀で囲むs inside ? they used to put 構成要素s on the 塀で囲む, not plaster, and some have been 手渡す painted so we are going to have someone come in and 回復する them and clean them.'

By May 2015, Mrs Bromley and her 延長するd family 計画（する） to have a small sectionof their 16 bedroom hotel ready for the public

'We're 結局 going to have the oldest part of the building- the first thing ever built, which is the tower ? made into a wedding bridal 控訴, but because there's six bedroom in the whole tower we'd like to 申し込む／申し出 it to their families 同様に, so they can have everyone stay in the area. And just on that 味方する at the 底（に届く） we have an old chapel, so we want to 申し込む／申し出 for people to get married there,' she said.

'All the other rooms will be 控訴s that can 融通する families. We also have a lot of land we can't touch so we are thinking of building a ゴルフ course on that in the 未来 and we're going to build a swimming pool just 近づく the summer house too.'