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

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

This week was quite a milestone for our mini renovation with my Dad spending the week at the house to complete the plastering so we can finally say goodbye to the awful state of the walls that were there and it’ll be ready to paint the next time we go out. Below is a quick reminder of what we originally

Here’s the full gallery of images for the kitchen removal and fitting of the new units. You’ll have to forgive some of the quality as that’s the iPhone for you but that said I’ve never had such a powerful renovation tool in my pocket You can read the full post

UPDATE 08/02/09 : Please note these plans have now been superseded with the use of a new architecht. Please see newer posts or search PLANS in the search box ( top right ) As promised we are posting up our house plans in an “as is” state at present. These small images below click through to the main Flickr gallery

How is it that we don’t have one agreed set of measurements for the house? It now seems after Dawn looked at the bathroom furniture that I have purchased she thinks my measurements are out and the items aren’t going to fit. No problem we have plans right, after all the architect did finally delivery them. OH that’s right we

We’ve got no further news for you about the car but we’ve now got all our photo’s together to show you the little “unexpected gem” we have in the barn. If you’ve not seen the first post it’s HERE ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ If anyone knows a Citroen dealer or club in England or France that

So we did our due diligence, we knew what we were buying and we even knew that there was a horse cart stuck on the cattle feed shed roof and we’d have to chop it up to get rid of it, hell we even knew we had an asbestos pipe to get rid of so we were prepared for everything