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in Normandy, France (and who among us hasn’t?), you do expect that it’ll require a whole mess of renovations. But the dreams of a livable château mostly involve Ephronian kitchens and lush gardens and not the reality, which is dry rot—not quite as romantic, but vital to fix. So one of the first things Philipp and Anna Mayrhofer did when they purchased their