It’s finally launch day! After being held up in the application process that is Apple we are finally REALLY happy to announce the instant availability of PETITE ASSISTANTE in the App store in iTunes and on your iPhone or iPod touch. The video above shows you some basic functionality of the app running & how to use it just to

This is the one we’ve both dreaded, the episode where we try and talk French architect, bureaucracy and our current experiences… This tips Lee over the edge!  No worries though we found the beep effect in Garage Band but it also drew some angry responses on Twitter regarding my “Architects are the problem” tweet that was sent out with it,

To make way for the new floor we are planning to put in requires the creation of one large open space in what we call “The Barn” . This is the space to the right of the living quarters which currently incorporates our bedroom to the far left of the building. In order to start this we need to empty

Dawn had the opportunity to take a week off with her family and spend it at the house. Given the house in an ongoing “work in progress” everyone was always going to be put to work.  Somehow they all managed to strike a balance of working on the house, garden, cowshed etc etc and exploring the area. This was just

Planning the layout of the house has been the hardest thing we’ve had to decide on.  Do we go for high style on the inside which ultimately affects the look of the outside or do we stick with what we have and compromise on size, light and what we see as quality of living space? This was a hard exercise

Get the balloons, party poppers & the orange juice as we are about to have ourselves a wrap part! Introducing little Miss “Petite Assistante” your personal French renovation dictionary, translater and all round life saver. The app is a dedicated English to French to English translation dictionary however this IS NOT your normal batch of French words. You’re not going

Episode 5 is finally here and it’s chock full of news and as always differening opinion as always. In this episode we discuss the progress that’s been made on the chimney (finally), wall pin, cow shed and even the roofers turned up! To cap off what was to become a Monty Python-esq encounter there’s even a French Architect in there

I did mention a while back that we are trying to put an iPhone app together to help with renovation & that wasn’t very specific so it’s time to put some flesh on the bones now we’ve started the project (as if we didn’t have enough on the go). “Petit Assistant” is a nice and simple app, we’ll to be

So does screaming and shouting get somewhere or is it just timing and the gods sense of irony? Today and well this week as a whole the process has taken great leaps forward and now we actually have time scales and the ability to get a more accurate cost plan for some of the work now things have been confirmed.