When I was a kid school started on September 1st, and we got to buy all the new books, notebooks, pens and pencils. Now I still get excited and buy myself a few stationery things but the real happiness comes from the garden tasks that can be accomplished only in the fall.

It is the almost the end of the summer and the house is basically finished. With a few tweaks here and there, and the work on the laundry room scheduled for September, we now have this house for ourselves to live in and enjoy.

After nearly a year most of the spaces in our old house are finished, with the exception of some details. How can I describe the feeling of finally having a near "normal" life back, having the comfort and space?

The thing with crystal chandeliers in my opinion that a bit of dust or a cobweb here and there only add to the patina and charm.

I have been through some projects of home improvement, but never this big, and extensive one.

Where are we after five months of the house restoration project? I am sure many of you are waiting for the before and after pictures

On the first visit I really liked the house and its potential, but the garden was a proverbial "cherry on top".

It feels like it has been forever - living in one bedroom, waking up early before the workers arrive (because who wants to parade in front

As I am writing our first summer in Bourgogne is slowly fading. It is early September, we wake up to cold mornings, cobwebs in the garden,

I saw layers of old wall paper, covered in flowers, and the old plaster, in the prettiest pastel hues, pink and off white.

I was absent on Instagram and on this blog, my mind and time were occupied with planning, responding to emails, and making decisions

I can fall in love with moody and mysterious interiors, and the rooms full of pattern and saturated color, but I know that although

It seems that for every thing we gave up when we moved away from Lyon, we gained a few. Life has a different rhythm à la campagne

Summer of 2023 was a busy one. While the skies of Lyon were oozing heat at historic heights, I was arranging for movers estimates...

It has been over five years for us already in beautiful France, and it took five years to find a place to call our own.

It has been in the plans since we arrived in France - to find a place of our own. Then the pandemic came, and then we faced a changed...

Before we settled in beautiful France a few years ago, we traveled here almost every year. And of course every time I had to do a little...

I could write about the farmers markets a lot! I think it was my first stop right after we moved to France...

Where did it all begin? The popular story on how the name "bistro" originated says it came from the Russian word "bistro" or "quick"...

Walking through a French flea market you will notice heaps of beautifully embroidered vintage and antique linen sheets, kitchen towels...