The farmhouse is looking very new. Anthony will be removing the damn budlia (sp.) and planting French lavendar in the gravel along the front of the house to give it some colour and break up the lines. I need to figure out what to do with the gate to the property.

Brunos van. He is here with his little digger doing some landscaping around the pool.

Cows in the field opposite.

View from the kitchen patio towards the pool. We are having this area gravelled with pea shingle. Anthony is going to plant rosemary bushes along the side of the barn. He is also planting a copper beach hedge on the two far sides of the pool.

We are going to get turf laid around the pool area for sitting on.

View from the kitchen patio. We are having the patios tiled with the left over Moroccan tiles from inside. Anthony (our gardener) is going down in March to do a tonne of planting. There will be French Lavendar along this patio, a herb garden behind that and loads of other stuff.

The shutters have had another coat of varnish.

start of the pool kit

The pool controls.

This magic thing does salination....

The machine room.. no one seem to know ow it works!!!

The heat exchanger for the geothermal heating

steps into the pool. it still needs rendering

The pool has been back filled with stone

garden - our gardener is going down to plant a wild flower meadow in March.

inspection hatch for the geothermal

Water and electricity going in to pool

I've finally got the web site together for rentals!

http://www.bergeracbarn.com

Comments appreciated. There is still quite a bit of work to do on it yet!

Master bedroom

Still need a few more books for the bookshelves. We have hundreds more that need to go down to France. The track lights are fantastic.

The electrician has been back and put in the track lights and the uplighters into the main room. The ceiling now has much more volume.

The kitchen worktop that had warped is now fine. We put a load of boxes of tiles on it and left them for a month. Chimney now finished on Rayburn.

I took the photos for our web site last week. It is looking great!

A lot has been going on in February. The painter has put another coat of varnish on the shutters and doors and generally finished things off.

Bruno has flowed the concrete into the walls of the pool. He needs to back fill with stone to ensure it remains stable.

The gravel has arrived for the back fill around the pool.

The water softener is now in place and working - still no idea why we have it. I am sure that I said no to the option. Never mind. It's there now. Need to figure out how to feed it.

The master bathroom shower now has a mixer tap.