Those sofas look great. It’s wonderful what bargains you can find in the secondhand shops! We’ve given up buying new stuff as it all falls apart in a few months but the old stuff in the Troc shops will last forever.
Rosemary Kneipp
March 5th, 2013 at 11:19 pm
We’ve had a wonderful time looking for furniture for the gite and people love it!
I hope you and Jean Michel are still speaking to one another! Simon and I would have had a huge row to deal with the frustration of it all.
Rosemary Kneipp
March 5th, 2013 at 11:20 pm
We’ll actually found it quite funny – with the exception of the fireplace, which was depressing. But JM is confident that it will eventually work!
Antoinette
March 6th, 2013 at 3:02 pm
Yup we’ve done similar — in our case the baddie was a twisting staircase in the Netherlands. Our bedframe refused to go up and it couldn’t get through the window either. We had to get a new bed….
If the roofer can’t sort it out because it is to to with the draw then you get a woodburner with a large glass door so you can still see the flames. It’s what we did as they produce more heat than an open fire.
Rosemary Kneipp
March 8th, 2013 at 12:41 pm
Hi Antoinette, great to meet up yesterday. We are going to get a woodburner with a glass door for one of the fireplaces downstairs so are rather hoping that the upstairs one will eventually work!
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Those sofas look great. It’s wonderful what bargains you can find in the secondhand shops! We’ve given up buying new stuff as it all falls apart in a few months but the old stuff in the Troc shops will last forever.
We’ve had a wonderful time looking for furniture for the gite and people love it!
I hope you and Jean Michel are still speaking to one another! Simon and I would have had a huge row to deal with the frustration of it all.
We’ll actually found it quite funny – with the exception of the fireplace, which was depressing. But JM is confident that it will eventually work!
Yup we’ve done similar — in our case the baddie was a twisting staircase in the Netherlands. Our bedframe refused to go up and it couldn’t get through the window either. We had to get a new bed….
If the roofer can’t sort it out because it is to to with the draw then you get a woodburner with a large glass door so you can still see the flames. It’s what we did as they produce more heat than an open fire.
Hi Antoinette, great to meet up yesterday. We are going to get a woodburner with a glass door for one of the fireplaces downstairs so are rather hoping that the upstairs one will eventually work!
[…] we’ve come back from Barcelona, I have got a bit sidetracked, what with fireplaces that smoke and snow in March. But I still have a couple more posts to write, and one of them is Gaudi’s […]
[…] the renovation was finished. We finally lit our first fire on February 28 only to the discover it smoked. The problem was eventually solved in March when the roofer opened up the top of the chimney. By […]