the result

It is done. Last Friday we signed the contract - so now we own some real Property! Well, not absolutely official yet: the contract still has to be ratified by a notary before September, 12th at latest.

The house is a converted farm-house built in 1932, and includes as you see a rather large garage. Very basic layout: house at the left, garage at the right, kitchen (bathroom on top of it) added at the back later on, and at the very back a rather worn-down barn. No garden - we plan to partly dismantle the barn and use it as a sheltered garden. Somewhere next year or so. The outside looks rather dull, but it has no structural damage, and the brickwork looks surprisingly good for having been built in 1932... The inside has been completely renovated at the end of the previous century: new electricity system, new heating (including pipework and burner), new bathrooms.

What remains to be done, from the top down: renew the roof tiles, isolate the roof, update the chimney so we can have a nice useable fireplace (and not those ridiculous fake gas fireplaces), clean the attick, construct a new floor above the garage and in a part of the attick, add some more windows, bring in a new staircase, redo some interior decoration, place a new kitchen, replace the garage door with this. And so on....

Any volunteers are welcome.