Well 2010 comes to a close and now 2011 is upon us we are faced with a new set of challenges. 2011 for us was going to be a holding year, with planning permission granted and a new baby on the way we’d decided to stop the renovation, save the money to get more done in one go and enjoy

Or in English : The building permit is GRANTED! FANTASTIC! It’s been a long hard road and we’ve made many mistakes but today we had some fantastic news and now we can really start to get together full quotes, project plans and time scales to turn our current 1 bedroom flat into a rather large open plan 3 bedroom family

They say a picture is worth a 1000 words and we’ve got lots to tell you, almost too much to be honest and that’s what has caused the delay to posting so it’s time to play a little catch up and also unviel what’s been keeping us busy since March

It’s been far to long for me, this is my first visit to the house since we left the house at Christmas & boy have I missed it! A long drive last night after work in London meant we arrived here at 03:30am French time, so it’s a day to recover, appricate the house, land and scenary and then i’ll

WOW! As we had hoped we’ve had a flurry of activity at the house & things have really moved forward. It’s hard to know where to start so i figured i’d give you a little overview while i write up the larger posts. So here’s what’s new : Bathroom now finished & painted, there’s even a toilet roll holder to

Almost a week in and things are starting to shape up very nicely indeed

Firstly: Thanks for hanging in there! I know thing have been more than a little quiet on the site and that’s simply because there’s not been a lot going on with the renovation, due to the weather in France. The good news however is we’ve not just sat back, we’ve been planning, organising & generally beavering away, and next week

With the groundwork already done by Dawn & her Dad (Eric) (in this post : HERE) it was now time to get the tiles removed, the roof opened up and wooden beams taken down so we can really start to see the potential in the space we then have and that was a job for me and my Dad! Here

With all the work we’ve done this year we thought we’d try and do something we’ve never done before and that’s the pair of us spend some time in the house alone. In all the time we’ve owned the house Dawn and I have never actually spent a single night in the house with just each other. With all the

We’ve achieved a few milestones on the renovation of late with the roof being finished and the dog getting his passport so we can all spend our first christmas as a complete family in the house and to celebrate we wanted to share the love so we’ve made Petite Assistante FREE for the festive period. No catch, no reduced functionality