Category: Our Apartment in Paris
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Meeting the Original Owners of Our Apartment in Cassis
This is a "d'evier en pierre de cassis" a hand carved stone sink similar to the one in our apartment in Cassis. Most of the homes in Provence had them in the 1800s. In the last home…
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Victoria Magazine: Our Paris Apartment
ALL Photos via Victoria Magazine May/ June Issue 2016 Several months ago Victoria Magazine asked if they could publish an article about our apartment in Paris. I was thrilled, they set a date, and then I scurried to have…
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Renovating Plaster Walls
The truck pulled on on the port with fifteen 88 pound sacks of plaster powder, plus numerous other sacks that needed to be hauled up stairs. Manpower is impressive and rather sexy. Pinch myself I…
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Dirt, Dust, Rocks and an 18th Century Boat Paddle
Buried under a raised floor, we do not know why it was raised nor hollow underneath, we found a wooden 18th century boat paddle. You bet that is staying in the apartment, not underground either. We had to rip…
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I Walked the Plank
Brave took me up the ladder, fear reminded me that a ladder broke which caused my wrist to shatter the last time I was up a ladder. But there I stood on the second floor looking down where a…
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Tomorrow is the Day We Start the Work in Cassis
Tomorrow the renovation begins. Sledge hammers, tiles, rocks, more rocks, dust galore will happen, then hauled down two flights of stairs in buckets since the stairwell is small and the port doesn't allow removal from tubes out the windows.…