Between a busy 2011 summer season of full gites, a pair of increasingly independent daughters who require regular taxi services...the gardening work going well & the renovation of a home for us in our 'spare time' we have had little time to 'blog' :o)
We have still snapped away (in between trashing a couple of cameras...oops) & will now add the photo's to the blog so friends & family get a glimpse before we next visit them..... ;D
May 2010 
March 2009 after tempete Xynthia...
May 2010 
March 2009 after tempete Xynthia...
May 2011 We had made all the holes for the windows in the barn and fitted the windows by the end of 2010 but the two existing 'big holes' had to wait to be filled until May 2011 as they were non-standard & large & therefore breathtakingly costly...
All the windows will 'enventually*' be painted the same light grey colour as the big window**.
* Isabella starts ALL sentences relating to our renovation projects with 'eventually...' Amelie prefers 'one day...' :o)
** The grey is a compromise between the most standard (cheaper) & the least offensive colour from the list of approved colours from the planning dept. ;D
All the windows will 'enventually*' be painted the same light grey colour as the big window**.
* Isabella starts ALL sentences relating to our renovation projects with 'eventually...' Amelie prefers 'one day...' :o)
** The grey is a compromise between the most standard (cheaper) & the least offensive colour from the list of approved colours from the planning dept. ;D
Oct 2011..got as far as the primer on the hideous orange hardwood.The outside has moved on during the summer with all the old render being picked off the stone in readiness for the end of the gite rental season.
South face - Oct 2011 - picked off stones & please note..paint!
The North face..... Sept 2011Alex has now completely re-rendered the north/south faces (the east & west will wait now til at least after the winter)....now typing on the 12th November 2011....south face will be finished on 13th !
The render is the local version of a lime mortar (chaux). The finish is known as 'pierre apparent' or 'pierre vues' depending on who you talk to but mostly it depends on how evenly laid & shaped the stones were by the person who originally built the place.
We have mostly render with the odd stone poking through & very nice it is too...it will certainly be more weather proof & strong for a few years ahead.
South - during 
North - done :o)
West face- enjoying sunsets & al fresco dining til the end of Oct ;o)
ttfn....I will be back....
We have mostly render with the odd stone poking through & very nice it is too...it will certainly be more weather proof & strong for a few years ahead.
South - during 
North - done :o)
West face- enjoying sunsets & al fresco dining til the end of Oct ;o)ttfn....I will be back....
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Great progress....it's coming on really well now and how lucky you have been with the weather, which must have helped.
ReplyDeleteFantastic can't wait to see it all, so much has been done, since our last trip, it all looks amazing. Hope all goes well with the wood burner.
ReplyDeletelook forward to the photo's inside. I like the girls comments, of course Dad's would be when "I get around to it"....but of course you will. lots of love to all