Wow!! Rooms!

The top of the stairs

The landing from the bathroom

The bathroom with water pipes

The bathroom with loo bits

The bedroom looking to where the cupboard will be

The bedroom with light streaming in

Our lovely builder, Mike, has sent us more photos of the progress he is making with the conversion of the remaining part of our attic in France. We now have an embryo bedroom, bathroom and landing with walls and doorways and the whole project is starting to feel real instead of just some fanciful idea. I'm feeling a bit like I did when we had agreed the purchase of our French house - very excited but just waiting for something to go wrong - but so far so good! Mike has the doors to fit and a bit of finishing on the walls then it will be full steam ahead to tile and floor the bathroom before installing loo, washbasin and fancy shower (with roof, radio and lighting, no less!).

Let there be light!

We are very excited to have had a phone call and an email with photos about the progress our builder is making in the attic chez nous en France. The first photo we opened blew us away! A view up the stairs with a huge pool of light at the top instead of the usual black hole. The whole thing looks completely different now he has stripped out all the eccentric insulation (cardboard and old carpet!), put 4 Velux roof windows in, removed the bit of plasterboard wall and door at the top of the stairs, insulated and plaster boarded the whole area and generally made it habitable. Mike the builder is a gem and we are very grateful to friends who put us in touch with him. He's going to put the floor covering in the new bathroom and tile the walls, possibly sand the lovely wood floor on the landing and in the new bedroom and replace or repair the rickety stairs and bannisters. We are dying to go back and see it all in its new incarnation. Roll on the end of September.