Today we Finished knocking down part 2 of the wall between the bedrooms so we now have a spacious lovely (rubbly) master bedroom! We won’t move in for a month or so – we still need to paint, scrub, etc etc… But wow! I removed the old lace curtains from all of the windows which…
Month: July 2020
Our Quirky 300 Year-Old French Home Renovation Adventure / Week 1: Wedgwood on a building site
Wedgwood bowls found for 20 cents each at Emmaus. Perfect for our little hideaway siestes !
Our Quirky 300 Year-Old French House Renovation – Week 1: Day 1
In which I knocked down my first wall and chipped our medieval moat tower free of plaster and Victorian wallpaper! Our first day, we hit the ground running. It was all about getting rid of the hideous neon pink wallpaper in the two bedrooms upstairs, and breaking down the wall between the rooms to create…
Our Quirky 300 Year-Old French Home Renovation Adventure / July 16, 2020: we arrive in Preuilly-sur-Claise, France – our forever home!
In which we meet the Mayor of Preuilly-sur-Claise, our new village, our neighbors help us steal our own mail, we stick up on delicious picnic foods from the weekly farmers’ market and check into the most adorable airbnb (& the hostess gives us a bowl of plums from her garden)
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