OUR HOUSE IN CORREZE From planning to building. In their fourth article Peter and Lesley Wilson bring us up to date, from the planning permission submission to getting the builders in. It is Bastille Day 2009 and we had just arrived in Segur le Chateau to spend most of the Summer there. Our contact with Steve [...]
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The good. the bad and the not so pretty. Our renovation in the “pays de Gatine”
The Search. Ray and Jennie Smith, in their second installment, give us an insight into how they went about looking for their “house” How did we find the property? As I’m sure you are aware there are many publications adorning the shelves of bookshops and newsagents offering a glossy alternative lifestyle and to be fair [...]
The good, the bad and the not so pretty. A gite complex in Mauleon
A gite complex in Mauleon When you sit in the two-bed roomed gite at Ian and Caroline Roulstones’ property in Mauleon, Deux Sevres, you would be hard pushed to envisage the starting point for this good looking, well laid out holiday home. It would be fair to say that this particular part of the [...]
The good,the bad and the not so preety. Our house in Correze
OUR HOUSE IN CORREZE First moves and future plans. In their third article Peter and Lesley Wilson recall how they set up home and started planning for the future. It was October 2006 exactly one year since we had made the decision to buy the cottage. We were again relying on the hospitality of our friends Kim and [...]
The good, the bad and the not so pretty. Our house in Correze
Buying the Cottage In their second article, Peter and Lesley Wilson take us along the long and winding road that led to buying their cottage in Segur le Chateau. Back in England, each evening when we returned from work, we discussed what we were going to do. Both of us had a certain amount of [...]
The good,the bad and the not so pretty. Our renovation in the “pays de la Gatine”
Ray and Jennie Smith have bought and are starting a course of renovation on a house with an attached barn in the “Pays de la Gatine”, Deux Sevres. They start their story with how the journey began for them. Introduction This is not, by any means, a unique story, there are more and more people [...]
The good, the bad and the not so pretty. Our house in Correze
Peter and Lesley Wilson are the proud owners of a holiday home in Segur Le Chateau, which is in the Correze, a department of the Limousin. In the first of a series of articles sharing their story, they tell us how the three of them met. First Steps We had been regular visitors to France for [...]
The good, the bad and the not so pretty. Introduction.
This category is of other peoples stories. Their conversions, the way things worked out, or didn’t, and what befell them during their projects. As the title suggests they may not contain what you want to read, but do provide some interesting experiences and lessons for all. In no particular order, the aim is to give [...]