Tuesday 13 August 2013

Renovation Project - One year anniversary

Renovation Project - One year anniversary

Today is Friday, our new joists should be arriving, but this is France and everything is a bit more laid back than it is in England, I have every faith they will arrive, John does not!

John and Craig are spending the afternoon with the hire van to collect enough plaster board and scant (which is 3 x 2 studding for partition walls) for the ceilings and the walls that we are going to have to rebuild.
I spend the morning at the tip again as we do have to have a clear space to work and to store the plasterboard. The plasterboard needs to be stored flat to prevent any bowing.

They return with all that we need and it is stacked in the living room, the delivery has still not arrived!
We have also borrowed a plaster board lift off Craig, this should make our life so much easier as we do not have to stand with the plaster board held above our head, this is not a nice thing to do, I will let you know if the lift is any good.

We are giving the delivery till 7.30 (I still have every faith that it will arrive) I have faith in it right up to the moment we leave the house at 7.30, OK it’s not coming, Theresa has said that she will call the merchants in the morning for us.

We are going out for a meal tonight, which is now quite exciting as we are becoming slight recluses as we are just working so hard, the evening is lovely and there is a small fair in the town square, it is a very small fair with a number of burger vans, but unlike English burger vans, these are so nice, we think back to a year ago and remember living in the tent eating these burgers.


We celebrate our one year anniversary in the Crepuscule, we also celebrate Johns birthday a little early, we still can’t believe we have been here a year and how far we have got, here are a few before and after pictures just to remind you of what we moved into and what we live in now!

The bathroom before
The bathroom After






The bathroom hallway before
the bathroom hallway before






The bathoom hall now
The front bedroom before
The front bedroom before

The front bedroom before
The front bedroom now
The front bedroom Now

6 comments:

  1. Sometimes you need to look back to see how far you've come. Congratulations and well done x

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    1. Thanks Theresa, you do need to sit back and take a look every so often, always good when people come to visit as you get to see it through new eyes :)

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  2. wow what a change!

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    1. Thanks Nicole, I love some of your pictures (had a look at your blog)

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  3. Working so hard... ermmm haven;t you just returned from a super long holiday??? It's looking great though Jen. Deserving of another holiday. x

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    1. Yes we have, it was fab, thank you we have come back full of energy to get it finished :)

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