Le terrain et le terrassement ... the building plot and landscaping
When one digs for gold ...
Les fondations ... the foundations
Foundations ...
Les caves ... the cellars
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With beaded bubbles winking at the brim ...
Le rez-de-chaussée (1er phase) ... ground floor (part 1)
The house starts to take shape ...
Le rez-de-chaussée (2e phase) ... ground floor (part 2)
... and continues to take shape ...
La 1ère étage ... first floor
The house rises up from the earth ...
Le toit ... the roof
To top it all ...
Le grenier ... the attic
I'm in loft with you ...
La 1ère étage (chambres) ... first floor (room partitioning)
Room to move ...
Les chassis et portes ... windows and doors
Rooms with a view ...
Le chauffage et sanitaire ... heating and plumbing
Turning up the heat ...
L'électricité ... electricity
What a bright spark ... shocking! ...
Le plafonnage ... plastering
Let's all get plastered ...
Les chapes ... screed flooring
Time to be on the level ...
Le carrelage ... tiling
Fancy a night on the tiles ...
La menuiserie ... woodwork
Would Edward Woodward be a chip off the old block? ...
Décoration ... painting and decorating
Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair ...
La véranda ... the conservatory
People in glass houses ...
Le feu à bois ... Wood-burning fire
Feeble I was then but now I'm grown, fire on Babylon ...
La cuisine équipée (Mobalpa)... the fitted kitchen
Out of the frying pan ...
Le déménagement ... removals day
Gotta move ...
Le jardin ... the garden — 2008
Mary, Mary, quite contrary ...
Le jardin ... the garden — 2009
How does your garden grow ...
Le jardin ... the garden — 2010
With silver bells and cockle shells ...
Le jardin ... the garden — 2013
And little maids all in a row ...
Le verger ... the orchard
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run - John Keats (1819)
La façade ... the rendering
The icing on the cake ...
La clôture de jardin ... the garden fence
Take to the barricades ...
Le sauna ... the sauna
Hotter than a match head ...
La terrasse ... the patio
When I came home tonight I lit the lamps in the patio, ...
L'abri de jardin ... the garden shed
... my head is like a garden shed: it’s full of junk and flower pots, wellie boots and who knows not ... — James Carter, from 'Cars Stars Electric Guitars' (2002)
Divers ... miscellaneous
Bits and pieces ...
Les égouts ... the drains
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains ...
Le ciel à Mussy ... Mussy skies
Next day 'twas pretty fairly dry ... save for a deluge from the sky ...
Mussy et ses environs ... in and around Mussy
My pig won't let me watch TV. Kenn Nesbitt
Les saisons à Mussy (le printemps)... Mussy seasons (spring)
Can you tell me aught of England or of Spring in England now? — Rudyard Kipling "In springtime"
Les saisons à Mussy (l'été)... Mussy seasons (summer)
Oh! how I love, on a fair summer's eve, When streams of light pour down the golden west, And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest The silver clouds, far, far away to leave — John Keats (1816)
Les saisons à Mussy (l'automne)... Mussy seasons (autumn)
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness - John Keats 'To Autumn' (1816)
Les saisons à Mussy (l'hiver)... Mussy seasons (winter)
The wintry west extends his blast, And hail and rain does blaw; - Robert Burns (1781)
La véranda fleurie ... the conservatory flowers
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. Emma Goldman
Fiesta time ...
The chops are burnt the spare ribs too, Everyone's looking very blue — Ernestine Northover "The barbecue"
Vues de la maison ... views of the house
Our House, in the middle of our street ...