House
3.0 – First Steps Inside
We visit the building site for our third meeting with the builder. The first blocks have been laid and our house is starting to appear.
2.3 – Designing Bathroom Tile Layouts
We have sketches of our bathroom which we can use to play with ideas. In this video, I talk about how we are approaching our bathroom tile design.
2.2 – Kink in the Bathroom
The builder found a problem in our house plan. Graham talks about the changes to the bathroom wall, and why it was so upsetting.
House Update
A break in our site visit schedule has given us more time to sort out some of the little details.
2.1.1 – Getting Things Right
The past week has been stressful as we’ve tried to manage changes to the house plan.
2.1 – Braving IKEA on a Saturday
We brave IKEA and Leroy Merlin on a Saturday to check our choices and to see the latest changes to the catalogues.
House Update
Catch up on our house build. The foundations are done.
2.0.1 – Foundations
The string lines from last week are gone, and have been replaced by concrete foundations.
2.0 – We have foundations
We visit the building site for our second meeting with the builder and afterwards return to the bathroom shop. There we check our floor tile choice and try to narrow down the bathroom tile choices.
1.2.3 – Dealing with Language Difficulties
After four years in France, language difficulties are not new to us, and we have developed strategies to deal with them.