Please note there is an update at the bottom of this post dated 21 Jan 09 It’s no secret that we feel we’ve had a total disaster with our first architect and while i want to vent my spleen and name and shame there comes a point where you have to accept that people run into unexpected circumstances that impact

Here’s a brief post to let you know that finally after 3 month we have started to get the house plans through! I KNOW I am as shocked as you are and later we will go into all the trouble we have had but to get a first round of drawings through is very exciting for us so we thought

So we are starting to learn FAST that thing in France are ALWAYS more expensive and take forever to get done, even then they aren’t necessarily done right. Here’s our story of trying to use our first French tradesman : As you can see from the photo on the right the “Grange” is missing some shutters and this is causing