Escape to the Chateau's Dick Strawbridge told his wife Angel 'to go' as he worked on a major project in their stately home.
The father-of-four, 63, was beavering away in a winter garden room when the interior designer, 44, joked the space didn't need decorating.
Showing off his progress in the chateau in northern France, Dick pointed to some metal frames and said: "Look here, the sheets of glass go in here. There's a sheet of glass which goes inside each one.