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

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

Well that was a bit of a shocking phone call! There was no paperwork, no inspection, no photographs just a chat on the phone with some figures from our builder with a cost to repair and then a “Yes Mrs Caller that’s completed, the money will be in your account on Monday”… WHAT WHAT

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

Have you ever done a job that you’ve always known needs doing & once you’ve started it you wonder why you’d left it so long? Well the removal of the ceiling in the old bedrooms was definitely one of them jobs

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

During the dismantling of the cow shed we removed 10 timbers that have stood for years. These are approximately 17cm wide by 8.5cm deep by 423cm long (all are approx. as these all vary a little) and we aren’t going to reuse them for the foreseeable future and would rather someone get some use of them. Unfortunately I can’t tell

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

As you’ll all know architects and architect meetings are the bane of my live and have the ability to get under my skin as i feel it’s a dark art that is often quite closed and the information flow in the beginning just isn’t helpful to the process, but today i feel enlightened once again. We met with the new