🏡 House

It was a few years after moving to France when we started looking for land to build a house in France. Now, the house is a home and we are settled.

These videos follow us as we endeavoured to understand and navigate the building of a home in a foreign country. This was our space to record that process (for ourselves) and to share it with friends and family across the world.

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.

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The string lines from last week are gone, and have been replaced by concrete foundations.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.

1.2.2 – Pink String and Blue Pipe

I love that every time we visit the land, there is progress and something new to see.

1.2.1 – More Choices

Yesterday was a long a day. Lots of travelling; lots of decisions.

1.2 – Are French snakes dangerous?

We visit Moulins to pick doors, windows, and fittings for the house. Graham encounters a snake on the building site.

1.1.1 – At First Sight

My first thoughts on seeing the land now the building work has started.

1.1 – First meeting on site

We have our first regular meeting with the project manager on the land.