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.

As is always the case I have too many favorites to mention in this post. After all I impose my own limit of three. And there's always the questions, what might interest my readers?

This time one of our Lyon trips happened to be just when the summer sales started. I made a bee line to my favorite shops - it was hard to narrow it down to just three...

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 just spent a few days in Paris after a looong break. Yes, I live in France and Paris is only 2 hours away by train for me, but you know what they say about life - it gets in the way.

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

Favorite things, places, finds... After over six years here France is still a country full of surprises

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

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

Over the months we've been here the house "told" us what it wants. It is over 200 years old, and evolved over the years, but retaining many

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

The same evening I told my husband "you have to see this house"

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...

When is the best time to visit Lyon? If you can make it happen, it would be the time when magnolias are in bloom. Place des Celestins in...