News on Good News: May 2014

Here are a few shots of what we have been working on this week...

The biggest job over the last 2 weeks has been the creation of an additional bedroom (and adjacent bathroom) on the second floor. The new bedroom window will be located between the small "dormitory room" window and the barn door.

Here you see the rooms being built. (The daylight comes from the open barn door.)

This photo was taken Thursday morning (barn door was closed)

By Thursday evening, half of the ceiling was up! (Where Gianni is standing will be the window to the street. Near JD are the wooden beams we are leaving apparent in the new room.)

This is the 'dormitory' room where we will have two sets of bunkbeds for the younger ones in the family.

Removing the wall paper (or most of it) was a large team effort (it took 5 or 6 people!). To cacher la misere (hide the misery), I have had chief responsibility for gluing toile de verre (a pre-painted wallpaper made of glass fiber).

It is fun to do!!

This is the living room. We have removed all the plaster to expose the old stones in the wall. (Note: the 'bricks' in the fireplace are wallpaper and are not staying!)

Erick came today and helped out. He got right into the task and left us with a beautiful wall.

The lower part of the left wall was the first section to get fresh mortar. Note the extra big stones all the way to the left - these are remnants from Maizey's old castle, which was destroyed during WWI. Every family in the village was allowed castle stones for use in re-building.

And here are a few photos from our orchard...