This sounds like a great project. My husband actually built a wooden model of our future (new) house, which he designed, before we got it built. It helped me to visualize things too!
There’s a practical reason for going with JM’s idea too — a simpler roof, with fewer planes will be cheaper and less technically problematic, less likely to leak. It was clever of you to make a model, but I was amused by JM taking over 🙂
Rosemary Kneipp
February 17th, 2015 at 7:53 pm
Yes, you’re right about the roof. There is a flat part in front of the barn that you can’t see in the photo. I’ll have to show it to you.
I, too, was amused by how keen he was on the model once he saw how to do it!
How clever are both of you?
I’m also unable to imagine in my mind the end product. Even if I thought to make a replica, there wouldn’t be the cardboard to create it. I’m impressed.
It was lovely to be able to click on the link to ‘Our Little House in Blois’ to add to my visuals of where you live.
The renovation will make for interesting reading as each little ‘drama’ unfolds.
Good luck.
Rosemary Kneipp
February 17th, 2015 at 7:52 pm
Thank you! I had the cardboard because my office is at home. I used those different coloured thin coloured folders you use for archiving.
It’s difficult to photograph the front of the little house because the gate (which also needs renovating). Today I bought some water paints to colour the façade!
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That’s going to be a lot of work, but it sounds worthwhile!
Yes, years of work, but we think it will be worthwhile.
This sounds like a great project. My husband actually built a wooden model of our future (new) house, which he designed, before we got it built. It helped me to visualize things too!
Wow, a wooden model. It must be very pretty!
It’s very charming
I’m glad you like it. It’s important that it should look attractive so that people will come and stay!
There’s a practical reason for going with JM’s idea too — a simpler roof, with fewer planes will be cheaper and less technically problematic, less likely to leak. It was clever of you to make a model, but I was amused by JM taking over 🙂
Yes, you’re right about the roof. There is a flat part in front of the barn that you can’t see in the photo. I’ll have to show it to you.
I, too, was amused by how keen he was on the model once he saw how to do it!
How clever are both of you?
I’m also unable to imagine in my mind the end product. Even if I thought to make a replica, there wouldn’t be the cardboard to create it. I’m impressed.
It was lovely to be able to click on the link to ‘Our Little House in Blois’ to add to my visuals of where you live.
The renovation will make for interesting reading as each little ‘drama’ unfolds.
Good luck.
Thank you! I had the cardboard because my office is at home. I used those different coloured thin coloured folders you use for archiving.
It’s difficult to photograph the front of the little house because the gate (which also needs renovating). Today I bought some water paints to colour the façade!
[…] I had no idea our trailer was a tip truck – and uses the trolley to take them into the garden of our little house next door which is ready to receive […]
[…] While the concrete sill on the practice window (made with our new secondhand concrete mixer) is drying, Jean Michel is planning the logistics for the two large windows in the kitchen. We’ve already bought two stone sills for the rear façade window through leboncoin.com (where else ?) but we need bricks for the side window and the barn. […]
[…] have definitely shelved our “little house” project and have received our demolition permit. Now we just have to move every thing out […]
[…] On the way back I notice a barn with three doors which we might be able to use as inspiration for our barn which Jean Michel is going to turn into a garage as part of our renovation plan. […]