We installed a kitchenette in the Mourvedre suite, which will be the kitchen - living - dining room of an apartment, including the Roussanne suite next door. Some pics of the works below, more info about L'Echappée here. Before (my hubby insists on storing some of his...
Projects
Project: summer kitchen
We made good use of the space underneath the pool staircase: it now has a summer kitchen that caters for the pool dining area, and is fitted with a fridge and a dishwasher, along with sturdy outdoor table ware. Starting taking out the existing sinkIn goes the concrete...
Project: the petanque court
A good petanque court is essential to a proper provence holiday. While extending the desk, and clearing up this space with a gorgeous view steps from the pool, it stroke us that it's narrow rectangular shape was crying out "Petanque!" So here is our dream team of...
Project: dining by the pool
This very special sot under the fresh shade of ancient oaks was just too perfect not to find a way to make good use of it 🙂 So here is the creation of the dining area by the pool, by extending the existing deck and adding a bench on it's edge to close it off. The...
Bird’s eye la Baye
Going up on a sunny winter day... It might have looked as drone taken views, but I actually took a lift up when the gardener hired an aerial lift truck, pretty amazing views from up there!!
The garden project, kitchen garden
Following the happy experience with dry gardening, and thanks to the very inspiring movie "Demain" (see link here) I ended up after quite a bit of research, digesting and making mine the concepts of permaculture in order to apply them to our garden. As all this is a...
The garden project, dry garden
Like many people, I have been brainstorming about how to make the future better (or just less worse maybe ?) for our children. An intelligent use of the property we are lucky enough to have seemed to be one of the obvious way forward. Instinctively, the manicured...