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Airconditioning

With the recent heatwave we admittedly struggled with the heat that has been building up in the house. One of the issues in particular we have with the building itself, is the fact they are two different type of buildings. There is the original house, built out of rock from the local area. A proper stone house as you undoubtedly …

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A new coat for Christmas

After a very long wait, our house finally got a new coat! I have a bit of mixed feelings about this, as I obviously know the house since I was a little child and whilst the change is good for the house – and for us – it still has a lot of emotions connected to it. It was a …

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A slow burner – Part 4: what did we get done?

That is a question, we have been asking ourselves. Being the one doing the renovations, sometimes it is difficult to see the trees in the forest. But feedback from visitors or even neighbours have been rather positive. Particularly from visitors which have known the house for a long time, i.e. my brothers or family friends. The Clear-Out I think the …

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A slow burner – Part 3: the garden

The garden is one of my main projects while my husband takes care of the renovation works where I am not much of a help. At the moment the house is rather plain. Don’t get me wrong, my aunt uses the garden a lot, it’s her little baby and she’s done a good job. But you also can tell that …

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A slow burner – Part 2: renovations

We have recently passed our one year anniversairy of moving to France and whilsts we did achieve some stuff in the house, sometimes it feels rather like we didn’t. Back then when we got here, we said seven months is plenty of time to turn one room into livable space with proper heating so we could survive a winter in …