Hi Everyone
Sorry we haven’t been in contact for a while, it’s been a busy time here at Maison Mûrier. Winter is fading away and spring is taking hold of the land, blossoms are ready to burst and bulbs are popping up to say ‘hi, it’s been a while’. The first to show their colours are the daffodils but the tulips & hyacinths are hard on their heals.
So why have we been so busy we hear you ask?
Well we have continued with our house renovations, the loft area above Marion and Ian’s house has been transformed into an office and spare bedroom.
Take a look…
To the left you can see the new full height entrance we have created, we had to break through the 1/2 metre thick stone wall.
To the right you will see the shape of the old door which was cute but very low and dangerous, as we kept banging our heads every time we entered through it. We used some of the stone from the new door to fill up the space.
One end of the room is our office/workroom
We sandblasted the beams, what a messy job that was! But worth it.
We kept all the original stone walls and re pointed them using traditional lime mortar, a long and messy job but quite satisfying as well.
The other end of the room has been made into a spare bedroom; the ceiling is low, but it’s ok for sleeping. The bed frame was going to be thrown out by friends of ours, so we nabbed it and painted it using chalk paint [amazing eco paint that needs no prep work done before painting your furniture: YES] and the headboard was made out of old wood that came off our roof. We love a bit of recycling.
We are now in the middle of installing an en suite bathroom into the old closet of the recently renovated Library bedroom – I’ll keep you posted on that.
Now that spring is arriving the garden is demanding attention too, mainly clearing up after winter but I’ve also just started creating a hot garden [plants with lots of reds, oranges and yellows] on the back of the old stone wall of Marion and Ian’s kitchen garden. The earth is not so good, lots of clay so ill have to dig in loads of compost and manure, hard work ahead…
And lastly we have developed a new website for the house, using a fab web creation company called Wix, really easy to use as it’s all visual.
Heres a link www.maisonmurier.com
The leaf in our new house name logo was hand drawn from one of our murier [mulberry] leaves by my talented cousin Tamar, thanks Tam, wish I could draw like that.
The website also has a blog which we will use going forward to post about whats happening here at Maison Mûrier
If you would like to be kept up to date with our news visit the new blog page and sign up for our newsletters. www.maisonmurier.com/blog-1
Whilst all of this has been going on
Barnaby Pickles has mostly been surveying his kingdom…
While Miel Miaow has been mostly snoozing in the sun.
Time for a cup of coffee in one of my favourite relaxing spots, under our acacia tree [yet to bud but still beautiful]
Bon weekend à tous.
Happy weekend everyone.
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