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Between the Dust & the Discoveries 🇫🇷
Not every day is about knocking things down… although there’s been plenty of that! 😂 A few snapshots from the last few days in France 🇫🇷 Clearing up the rubble and figuring out our local recycling centre, discovering a rather intriguing bricked-up opening in one of the old stone walls, wander
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Chapter 4 | And so it begins…
The stripping back has officially started! First discovery came before we’d even touched the walls. We lifted one of the boards to see what was underneath and found original wooden flooring hiding below. 🤎 Then we started on the walls — removing wallpaper and loose old plaster and slowly unco
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Renovating in France 🇫🇷 Finding the trades we can’t DIY 🔨
We’re starting to get properly stuck into the renovation of our French house in Villaines-la-Juhel, Mayenne, and we’ve reached the point where we need to start building our little black book of trusted local trades. We’re definitely not new to renovating, planning or getting our hands dirty — bu
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📖 OUR FRENCH STORY | CHAPTER 3 🇫🇷 From offer to keys… 🔑 Our offer was accepted on 21 March 2026 — suddenly the French dream was becoming very real! Before paying our deposit, we wanted one last look. So on 4 April, we headed back to France, walked through the house again and thankfully sti
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📖 OUR FRENCH STORY | CHAPTER 2 🇫🇷
The search begins... By August 2025, after years of dreaming, researching and exploring, we were finally ready to start looking for our French home. We had several properties lined up to view, although a few disappeared before we even made it across the Channel — our first lesson in property hu
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New To Lemon8
Our French Chapter Begins 🇫🇷 A little introduction to us, and how a long-held dream of having a home in France finally started becoming real. This is Chapter 1 of our journey — from searching for the right place to renovating it and creating a home that feels like us. There will be plenty of des
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Interior Designer | Renovating our French home 🇫🇷 | Sharing the journey ✨