MY EXCITING ENCOUNTER WITH A FRENCH PUSSY - MARVEILLEUX

Humm, soooo much potential....the blocks w/black mortar would have to go...I just hate it when someone thinks they are interior decorators and don't have the slightest clue.

Lord E? In the pic, beside the window...on the right side of the wall, there is a shelf built into the wall, is there one on the left, behind the bookcase?

Nice little spot, Lord.

Cheerio, pip pip, and all that.

Hmmmm.....spent a fair portion of yesterday, having various sorts of tests done at the hospital.
It brought back such pleasant memories. Booked in to see the Consultant tomorrow on an "emergency" appointment, which basically means that one hangs around all day until he has time to see you.
The last time I saw him, I ended up staying there all summer, so I'll just whack some pics on during today as I am the eternal pessimist when it comes to hospital matters.

(it should be Ok this time, as I'm feeling a lot better, and have been given another large stock of the famous "DF118" pills to take)




Anyway, back to the interior (please stop me if this is boring anyone)

Living room......stairs on right lead up to mezzanine, which accounts for the low level ceiling above the white (ugh!) leather couches.
The dining area, from where I took the last photo (previous page) has a high vaulted ceiling.
View from mezzanine, looking down towards dining area.....doorway through to kitchen is down there on the left.







As you can see, we have a bed up there for when the house has too many visitors.
There is another staircase going up from the mezzanine, to a third floor bedroom, whose window looks out onto the overhanging roofbeams....


looking down onto mezzanine....



Window of 3rd floor room.....





Back down on the ground floor, looking through kitchen doorway into kitchen (obviously)......



Kitchen, from various angles. To make a cup of coffee, you have to do a total of approximately half a mile of walking......



The original cow byre has been kept, which now houses drying tea towels and other assorted junk, until we obtain some more cupboards....

MMS, if you look at the front of the house pic, you'll see that every barn has its own little window, and the kitchen window (originally a barn entrance door) has one on either side.

The window in the living room was originally a door (which we will put back) to the back of the barn, and it too had a little window, which has now been blocked in...that accounts for the small niche in the wall.

Back soon......have to resize some more pics.......which should be an interssting exercise, as I have just taken some magic pills (the reaon I'm up so early on a Sunday) and will probably end up with a batch of varying size.


Later Edt.......Nah, no good I think i'll try this later on. These pills are the equivlent of having a spliff made with nepalese temple ball (vague and distantmemories) and although the grumblings are still there, you just don't give a ****.

Back later

What's this emergency doctor's vist about?

Hope you are weller than before sire.

Love the cow byre LE (that has to stay), not sure what to do with it though, does it need to have a function can it just be feature?(coat rack?) and the ballustrade on the mezzanine floor with handmade uprights is orgasmic.
Just absolutly wetting myself over all the old wood. Feature beams, window surrounds, fireplace etc. You could gut the place and sell the wood over here for a fortune to be resawn for furniture.

Might I suggest an island bench in the kitchen with pots, pans ladles etc hanging over it. Wood slab top of course, cupboards underneath.

It amused me a little to see the microwave, dishwasher and the green checked tablecloth in this hundreds of years old farm house.

Its making me a little sad that I will never get to see stuff like this. I am studying for a diploma which includes developing a management plan to preserve cultural heritage. Over here (in OZ) anything over 50 years can be subject to a National Trust listing, and your litlle house is 3/400 years old!!!!!!!!!

Just amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Would convict labour be welcome?
*DP tugs forelock and grovels abjectly*

Yes that emergency stuff is worrying. Hope we get a quickish update. :-(

(Gorgeous house!!)

Byre = bike rack? I suppose you'll never have that many bikes at the house....

Garden tool organizer? Broom stand?

<worrying about Lord Ell....>

Garden tool organizer sounds good.
Love the kitchen table.
Agree with dadpad about the place..
impossible to bore us about all this, Ellpus.


<worries>

Thinking along the same lines as dadpad ...



Do you need an interior designer? *waves hand* Here's one who'll work for a free vacation. And I'm sure that ossobuco and Greenwitch will have some wonderful landscaping ideas. In fact, you could probably arrange for an A2K working get-together!

Let's replace all the flooring on the ground floor with some locally quarried natural stone, and reclaimed wood strip flooring on the other levels -- maybe in a large herringbone pattern. Strip all that ghastly wallpaper and refinish the interior walls with venetian plaster. I notice that there are few windows, and that's making the interior look a little dark, so let's either increase the lighting with recessed downlights and antique wall sconces, or carefully knock out some window embrasures ... um, how deep are your pockets? Before I get carried away ...

(Hoping your medical emergency turns out to be minor.)

Seriously, that would be so kick-ass cool!!!

Ooh, ooh! <waving hand frantically> I wanna come, I wanna come!

I can't do anything skillful, but I could do grunt work. I can make runs to the village for coffee! I can clean!

You can do art for the walls!

I was trying to figure out what I can do... I could custom paint (glaze) ceramic tiles, maybe... good for kitchens.

By the way, LE, you misspelled merveilleux--and as one would assume pussy is female, merveilleuse . . .

Ooh...a working vacation! Count me in. I can't do any heavy lifting, but I will keep the kitty occupied so she doesn't step in any wet paint or anything.

>fretting about LordE<

You are obviously right about the spelling, Set. But merveilleux is refering to the encounter as an event (événement). And the event is merveilleux.

I too hate to be humbled, Set, especially when I'm right. That was subtle, Francis.

I will assist in the gardening grunt work, but don't expect me to scrub away moss! Or clean inside the house...... I will sleep anywhere. Than-q!