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Renovation in Provence: Living Room Reveal!!

August 3, 2016 by ashleyt 10 Comments

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Renovation Reveal. We still haven’t hung any art yet! Soon. Notice we kept some of the blue on the ceiling.

The living room from our renovation reveal in Provence! More photos to come.

Bookshelf

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When we first put this rather large bookcase in the room Robin wasn’t too happy with me as he first thought it overshadowed the lovely spiral staircase. But, despite the beauty of the final room- to has to be liveable. For me, that means living amongst a rather large amount of books! Sadly, there’s still books in drawers at the moment…

The Stairs

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View from Stairs

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This is taken from the stairs.

Check out the Renovation Process with photos of this room throughout all the stages.

Filed Under: Renovation Reveal Tagged With: Brocante Provence, brocante; vide-grenier, country lifestyle, DIY Renovation, expat in france, french home, maison provencal, Renovation in Provence, renovation reveal, renovation transformation, shabby-chic, small house renovation

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Comments

  1. Stephanie Mounts says

    August 3, 2016 at 5:45 pm

    Just beautiful and so cozy! Cannot wait to see the bedroom and bathroom (assuming we do get to “visit” the upstairs level as well…)! 🙂

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    • ashleyt says

      August 4, 2016 at 12:09 pm

      haha of course!

      Reply
  2. Lynn Tinker Toye says

    August 4, 2016 at 12:33 pm

    I can see there’s room on the wall by the bookcase for a hideabed or a day bed for over night visitors!!!
    Just saying:)

    Reply
  3. Cindy says

    August 23, 2016 at 7:35 am

    That was quite a good job, I must say. It’s wonderful !

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    • ashleyt says

      August 24, 2016 at 3:56 pm

      thank you!

      Reply
    • ashleyt says

      August 24, 2016 at 3:56 pm

      I’ll be posting before and after pics soon!

      Reply
  4. Angela says

    February 7, 2017 at 1:57 am

    Where do you do your computer work? At the table? No desk? Do you guys ever watch tv? I wonder where you lounge. I feel like me and my husband need a lot of lounging space, but I suppose others not so much?

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    • ashleyt says

      February 7, 2017 at 3:17 pm

      I go to the local café every morning to work on the computer. My coffee is normally even waiting for me! Otherwise, I work at the kitchen table. Since these photos, we’ve bought another, more comfortable couch. We watch all our tv on my laptop. We’re huge fans of everything on BBC so we couldn’t watch that on French TV anyways. The house is so small that everything needs to be pretty!

      Reply
  5. Maite Alegre says

    October 5, 2020 at 5:47 pm

    Hi, Could you please let me know the mixture that you used to do the walls? Thank you

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    • ashleyt says

      October 6, 2020 at 6:00 am

      Hi Maite, The recipe for the mixture we used is here: https://curiousprovence.com/chaux-instead-of-paint/
      -Ashley

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