Weekly update

This week, we mourn the end of the wallpaper era. A moment of silence, please.

Weekly update

Not an exciting week at la Bergerie, unless you are a fan of tarps and holes (sounds like the name of an English pub.)

Yearly update

Click here for the before.

Weekly update

Lots of progress upstairs this week. All the walls at the top of the stairs have been torn out and we can already tell we'll love the more open feel. But finding the right path through the beams will be more complex (mind your head, still.)

 

Mr Thierry thinks insulation in that part of the house is not bad, except for right at the top of the stairs, where we already knew you could see daylight through the cracks. We'll be insulating that area and it should be nice and toasty, and make for an improved heating bill. 

A reminder of what it was like before

The closet in the blue bedroom has been framed and the green bedroom has been reconfigured -- old corridor wall taken down and new door put in. It makes for a humongous room. 

Welcome back from vacation, Clément!

Sadly, the weather has been bad, with torrential downpours, so Patrick was only able to put in a day's work outside. He found that the tile was practically right on the plaster. In between the two, he found a sheet of paper that once was attached to insulation. Where the insulation itself went is a mystery.

Eventually another positive impact on our heating bills!

Weekly update

Please welcome Mr Thierry (left) to the blog. His work was featured last summer, when he did the downstairs bathroom. He and Fabien (right) got started this week and made good progress. The upstairs, pink and black bathroom has been dismantled and the new bathroom is now framed.

Here's a little reminder of where it's starting from…

 

Patrick, our woodworker on last years bathroom and on this project will be doing the roof. The old, broken tiles will be thrown in a big wagon and delivered to an estate in Varenne where it will be used to fill pot-holes in farm roads. Patrick spent the week preparing but did not get started because it's been sooo rainy!

Lovely Kazue visits la Berge