And now the House

Compared with the cottage, the house renovation has been so easy.  We have the wonderful Monsieur B as our project manager and when we have ...

(Started to write this in April. Forgot to post it.) The kitchen is in, looking sleek and modern against our off-white freshly painted wal...

Monsieur G and his workmen, lorries, vans and diggers completely took over the drive for most of the week as the " fosse septique"...

Monsieur G asked me to come and see something and as we walked he explained.  Except that the key word - coule, couler, or something - mean...

Things have been pretty tranquil at the house for the last few weeks - until yesterday. Monsieur M hasn't been round much to do the ele...

Monsieur C and his team have finished and the plastering looks great.  Really sharp.  And he worked so fast.  He had a large machine that sq...

So much activity at the house yesterday. Monsieur C was there, plus helper, putting up the final bricks that cover the thick insulation in...

Saturday afternoon and yet again we've had an emergency water company engineer on site; this time up to his elbows in the manhole where ...

Our first winter we struggled to keep any warmth in the house and finally bought special aluminium foil insulation and just rolled it onto t...

The roof over the garage and one of the bedrooms had a different type of tiling, which broke up the lovely line of the slope.  Also, rain go...

The old plasterboard between the kitchen and the study has been removed and the bare struts of the colombage between the two rooms are visib...

... the house has been a hive of activity with builders in the lounge (where the stone steps are now laid) the gite/entance hall (where the ...

... about what to do with the lounge back wall. Monsieur G (who is in charge of the major structural stuff) said the mud torchis in the l...

They arrived yesterday morning.  France takes the view that Christmas is a one day affair and then everything gets back to normal, but even ...

Lynne, who dips into this blog from time to time, asked if I could do a simple floor plan. Certainly the house layout is confusing and eve...

Nothing's been happening in the house for about a month now.  Though Monsieur B reassures us that activity will start again early in the...

We're having all of the pipe work in the house replaced and when they dug down to lay the new pipes, the channels filled up with water, ...

Progress on the house is very leisurely.  Nothing like the rush and bustle of the Poles when they were doing the cottage. The French buil...

The second bedroom is about as far away as possible from our one bathroom. Anyone taken short in the night has to find their way in the dark...

Things have been quiet at the house for a few days. Monsieur M has been steadily making holes for the new wiring but the major construction ...