I know Margaret from our Interior Design Forum on Facebook where we share our decorating and design projects and get help from each other. You can join it HERE.
Margaret lives in France and she is redoing a fabulous country home originally built around 1445.
That is really staggering to think about how old it is. The home is amazing. I’ll let Margaret tell you a bit about the house.
We found the place on the internet when we first decided to move, it was the only one we looked at because we totally fell in love with it. It had been deralict for quite some years and had no water, bathrooms, kitchen, electric and the roof was beyond repair. Being totally insane as we are, we bought it.
Our plan has always been to make it a family home and to spend as little money as possible whilst doing so, we are doing everything ourselves and without the use of electric and on no budget at all (it was either this way or never)
The choice of timber frame for the division of the upstairs was because there had never been any rooms and having 3 children rooms were essential, timber framing seemed the best way to keep in style with the period and to enable it to all be removed in the future so preserving the building.
So far we have learnt that it is dated to around 1445 although we have found a 1401 map showing a mill in it’s location.
Items of interest, we did find a strange stone hidden in a wall yet nobody seems to know what it is, I have sent photos to local history groups but no answers as yet.
Isn’t this home amazing?
Thank you Margaret for sharing your amazing home with us. If you want to keep up with the renovation, you can find Margaret at Vieux Moulin, HERE.
Thanks Margaret for sharing your amazing home with us.
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Wow…what an incredible home!!!…Thanks for sharing Anita! Love the amazing architecture!
This would be wonderful to live in France,it seems like a great place and will be really pretty when finished.
Anita
Looked the new newsletter dated and delivered, 1 Nov, 2015 but when I tried to used the 5OFFBOOK code to buy your new book it stated the code had expired before the newsletter had even arrived, 29 Oct 2014. Is there perhaps another code available. Wish I lived near you so I could go to the Flea/antique markets listed. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Cat
Good point. I’ll try to extend the discount codes next time. The sales have been flash sales, and the newsletter shows posts from the previous week, but I’ll try to take that into account next time.