Personalising The Notebook Cover
The first stage of creating The Chateau notebooks involves taking one of our beautifully designed hardback covers (printed and made in house!) and embossing the personalisation. One of our dedicated team takes your chosen cover design and hand composes the requested lettering to be monogrammed. Using individual text blocks, the initials are gently stamped into the notebook cover using a specialist machine.

Our leatherette designs, including the classic Potagerie Debossed notebook, are heat reactive and change colour at the correct temperature to reveal the design!

Elegant Gold Foiling
The next stage is to adorn the notebook with our gold or silver foil detailing, which is done by hand. The metallic foil personalised initials stand out against our vibrant notebook cover designs and complements them brilliantly. It adds an extra layer of elegance that we are very proud of!

Time to Bind
Once the cover has been personalised, it’s time to focus on the inside of the notebook. We offer five different insert designs for our notebooks; plain, dotted, graph, lined and Dick’s Project Book, to suit everybody’s journaling needs! As well as this, the inside of the notebook is personalised with the individual’s name and telephone number, to make it truly personal to them. It’s the Chateau Teams job to make sure all personalisation choices come together in the final notebook.

The inserts for our notebooks come in blocks which need to be bound together in the correct format. Once our team have checked that all the correct choices are included in the notebook, it’s time to bind. All of the relevant information is inputted into the binding machine and voila, after a few minutes…the insert is done!

Cutting The Book To Size
Once the book is finished in the binding machine (but before we move on to affixing the covers!) the pages are then cut to the right size to make sure it fits within its cover perfectly!

Adding The Special Details
For us at The Chateau, the devil is in the detail! Once the book has been bounded and cut to the correct size, it is off to the detailing station to be finished with a place ribbon, head and tail bands which is lovingly done by hand. In the case of the image above, this notebook was beautifully finished by the wonderful Alisha.

One Last Bind!
Now the insert is complete and the cover is ready to go, it is time for one last check! Our team make sure we have the correct text block with the correct cover, and then it’s time to ‘case in’. This includes adding the beautiful end papers, the hinges to the cover and most importantly…securely bringing the entire notebook together.

The Finished Notebook
After this process has been thoroughly seen through from beginning to end, we’re handed an impeccably finished notebook fresh from the production team and it’s ready to be sent out to its new home.

Fill it With Ideas
Once you receive your notebook, fill it with ideas, plans and doodles!