Category Archives: Renovation

A Laundry in a French House No Less! #1

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

We’ve set aside two weeks to make a laundry at Closerie Falaiseau. Like most French houses, it doesn’t have one. I’ve talked about this before. In fact, Jean Michel has already drilled a 10 cm diameter hole through a 70 … Continue reading →

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Friday’s French – travaux

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

This is going to be a very short post because we are up to our necks in travaux. Travaux, the plural of travail is, interestingly enough, from the low Latin trepalium, instrument of torture, derived from the Latin tres, three, … Continue reading →

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Weekly Blogger Round-Up: Renovating a château – Visiting Southern Italy – No pants in the Paris metro

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Rosemary Kneipp

Welcome to this week’s Blogger Round-Up. Three posts caught my eye immediately this week. The first, by Janine Marsh from The Good Life France, tells the story of an Australian couple who have bought a château in the south of … Continue reading →

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Rethinking our projects in the Loire

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Rosemary Kneipp

I was very encouraged by all the sympathetic comments on the post I wrote a couple of weeks ago called War declared by next-door neighbours. Thank you for your support. I have to confess that I have been depressed ever … Continue reading →

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Making the Most of Spring in Blois

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Rosemary Kneipp

I don’t know how it got to be 10th March when just a couple of days ago, it was still February. All that R&R we were supposed to have this week doesn’t seem to have happened. Even though the fireplace … Continue reading →

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Four Fireplaces, Two Fire Starters and No Fire

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Rosemary Kneipp

Last Friday night when we still thought we might be able to have a fire in the renovated fireplace upstairs in Closerie Falaiseau, we thought we would order a fire starter on-line. We first became acquainted with the Cape Cod … Continue reading →

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Why the Fireplace Smokes and Other Annoying Things

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Rosemary Kneipp

We seem to be having a run of bad luck and are hoping we’ve come to the end of it! The first thing we did after we got to Closerie Falaiseau late Wednesday afternoon was to turn up the heating. … Continue reading →

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First Fire in the Fireplace

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Rosemary Kneipp

We’re at Closerie Falaiseau. We’ve had dinner and are sitting on the sofa in front of the non-operational fireplace downstairs . Why, you may ask, are we not upstairs, drinking champagne and eating foie gras in front of our beautifully … Continue reading →

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French Renovations in the Loire Valley

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Rosemary Kneipp

I thought I would use my guest post on My French Life this month to do a recapitulation of the renovation of our Renaissance fireplace in Closerie Falaiseau, our 400-year old house in Blois. I know that some of you … Continue reading →

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The Fireplace is Finished – well, almost

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Rosemary Kneipp

We are on our way back to Paris. It’s 10.30 pm and by one o’clock, we should be in bed. Not like last night when Relationnel hit the sack at 4.30 by which time I was asleep, woken from time … Continue reading →

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