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Five week countdown before we hope to finish our rental !

renovation provence — Still very much a worksite- but getting somewhere.

It’s the five week countdown to when we hope our barn renovation will be near completion! Since I last posted here Robin has been working 7 days a week while I’ve been crazy busy with photoshoots in the local hilltop towns, lavender fields, sunflower fields, olive groves and more. I’ve been sharing daily updates on plaster boarding, tiling etc on Instagram but things are really going to start to come together in the next couple weeks. Well, that’s the plan anyways..

This will be a weekly vacation rental from May-September. Once things start looking less like a construction site, hopefully at the beginning of September, we’ll start taking reservations for next year. If you’d like to see more about the amenities this 2 bed/2 bath will have, see Our Barn Renovation Update from June.

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Antique Cement Tiles

Robin wanted to stick to the traditional non-baked cement tile. They add a lot of local character. Check out my Instagram for a couple photos of local cement time floors. We realize just visiting a Tile Store in Brampton would be a lot easier if we were back home in Canada, but we’re in France, so we don’t know of any well-recommended tile stores. These tiles are well known in Portugal, but have been used all over Europe. In Provence, they are quite popular and if you’re not used to them you may think they are a bit too “busy.” Finding these beautiful tiles is not difficult here in Provence. However, to make our lives more difficult, we wanted the antique tiles rather than the reproduced versions. This is our search for the patterned bathroom tile…

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Barn Renovation August Update

Shopping for Antique Tiles

Antique Cement Tiles