In case you didn’t know about Mei Line, my textile design project with natural dyes, staying at la Baye is a good introduction to my work. There is a pinch of naturally dyed fabric here and there, and around the corner, I did a post about them here:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Bringing la Baye des Anges to it's present state has been a life adventure for our family. It all started in late 1999, with the discovery of this marvellous property. A few months planning, and then 12 month of building works where needed to transform this ruined...
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!!
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...
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...
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