Fancy Shower

Now my eldest son Matt is particularly unimpressed that we have bought a ruin in France to renovate. So I am trying to win him round by promising him a room with an ensuite, and I buy this fancy gimickey shower head to make it look trendy. Stupid me! Not only do such cheap tactics not work, the fancy bleep bleep shower doesn't work very well either. By trying to please people who don't want to be pleased I have just wasted our money. Would have been much better to put in an ordinary shower. Will I ever learn? Maybe, eventually!
Barrusclet - French farmhouse to rent in the Midi-Pyrenees

Deliberate Mistake!

April 2008
The new windows are going in. can any one spot the deliberate mistake?
Barrusclet - French farmhouse to rent in the Midi-Pyrenees

French house with Ensuite

Feb 2008 and July 2009

The two doors that are lead from the master bedroom are to a dressing room on the left and an ensuite bathroom on the right. Well that was the plan. I got the ensuite, but the dressing room was snatched away from me because Mark designated it a good space to put a hot water tank. Mmmmmm!

Barrusclet - French farmhouse to rent in the Midi-Pyrenees

Bedroom 4

The guys are doing a great job of creating colombage walls out of reclaimed timbers. This wall will divide bedroom 4 from the master bedroom.
Barrusclet - French farmhouse to rent in the Midi-Pyrenees

A great find.

Feb 2008

In the kitchen. The timber framed wall you can see was actually discovered in another part of the house when we took down a plasterboard wall to make a room bigger. We had no idea it was hiding there. The guys have carefully moved it to form the new wall between the kitchen and the hall. What a great find!

Barrusclet - French farmhouse to rent in the Midi-Pyrenees

Grey Day

Feb 2008

A bit dismal today, but the guys are soldiering on. It still looks like a bombsite after nearly 9 months of work.

Barrusclet - French farmhouse to rent in the Midi-Pyrenees

Crisp and cold January 2008

Brrrrrrr, it is so cold today, but the air is crisp and clean with a beautiful blue sky. Invigorating! Base camp caravan keeps warm and cosy.
Barrusclet - French farmhouse to rent in the Midi-Pyrenees