Hard work ahead

It’s been 4 weeks since we arrived in France, and the weeks have flown past. It’s only looking back through my blog that I remember fully how we have spent the time.
We are often asked, ‘are you bored yet?’ Absolutely not, we don’t have time to be bored. Every day when we wake up we plan what we are going to do. This morning we took time to reflect and plan what we need to do to realise our ambitions for our ‘Maison en Champagne’ B&B. Sometimes the enormity of everything can be a bit overwhelming, so for me it’s good to break it down into various tasks. For example, what administration do we need to do to live in France? How do we approach accounting and taxation? What needs to happen on the house to make it ready? Then it’s not to try and achieve everything all at once. But within its timescale.

We know that once the stone masons are back to work in September, we can understand the cost of the worktops for the kitchen, and if they are within our budget then we will progress with getting them ordered, and Brian can start to fit the units. Our kitchen units are old mahogany cupboards, which he will be cutting to fit. It will be very eclectic in style, something I love. The plan is we will have the kitchen finished by mid November.

In addition to that, whilst that is happening, we will look at refreshing the front double bedroom (named Magnum), and plan to have that completed by the end of October, so that we can then do the family room, which is named Jeroboam. That needs a bit more work, but I’m excited about doing that. That should take us through to Christmas at least.

Some hard work ahead, but really looking forward to getting stuck in, and enjoying seeing the results.