Bonjour everyone, Winter has truly arrived here in southwest France. We've had a proper cold snap this week, and would you believe it, we actually woke up to snow in Bordeaux! It's such a rare sight that half the neighbourhood was out taking photos. But the novelty wore off pretty quickly when we realised just how freezing cold the house had become. And that's what finally pushed us to tackle a job we really should have done ages ago: insulating under the floorboards in the cellar. I know, I...

Bonjour, This week’s video is a special one: we’re giving you the full home tour. It’s been exactly two years since we picked up the keys to our 19th century house in southwest France, and what a journey it’s been. Some rooms are finally livable (hooray!), while others… well, let’s just say we’ve got our work cut out for us. You can watch the complete room-by-room walkthrough in the video, or keep reading for all the behind-the-scenes details and a few extra stories we couldn’t fit in. The...

Bonjour everyone, We've got a special one for you today: our bedroom transformation is finally on the channel! This room has been quite the journey. When we first got the keys to the Chartreuse, the bedroom was an absolute state: mouldy walls, plasterboards stuck to the original stone that had to come off, a hole in the wall that needed fixing, dodgy gutters, ancient plastic window... the list goes on. We had to sort the gutters, replace the windows, insulate properly, and then tackle...