🏡 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.
1.4 – Progress Day 5
Watch a short video showing the house progress between days 3 and 5 of the build.
4.0.2 – Happy for Rain
I’m sure few people building a house are pleased to see rain forecast. Rain on building sites tends to mean delays. I’m not hoping for rain, but when I checked the weather forecast and saw a few showery days ahead for Vichy, I smiled.
1.3 – Progress Day 3
Watch a short video showing the house progress between when we found the land and 3 days after building began.
4.0.1 – The Basement is Done
Our meeting with the project manager and bricklayer was longer and more detailed this week. It had been a month since the last meeting, so there was a lot of progress to cover. The walls of the basement are now done, and they have poured the concrete floor. They expect to start the second floor next week.
4.0 – Denied Dessert
Two national train strikes alter our plans and we spent the night in Vichy. Our fourth site meeting and lots of progress to show you.
3.0.2 – Another Visit, Another Strike
Our last house visit plans were thrown into chaos by a national strike. It was a last minute scramble to reschedule and reorganise everything to get there. Now, four weeks on, and another strike is threatening to upset our plans again.
3.0.1 – Going Up
A national strike made getting to Vichy complicated, but we made it, and got to see the walls for the first time.
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.