42,195 km of renovations
Ground floor
Au rez de chaussée nous cassons un mur de la cuve à vin. Un mur très robuste de 60 cm d’épaisseur avec deux rangées de pierres et un ciment parfois aussi dur que de la roche.
On the ground floor we are breaking one of the walls of the wine tank. A very robust wall 60 cm thick with two rows of stones and cement sometimes as hard as rock.
Après un petit coup de balais, nous pouvons poser notre poêle à granule et surtout monter le silo d’une capacité de quatre tonnes dans la vielle cuve.
After a little sweep, we can place our pellet stove and above all assemble a four tons capacity silo in the old tank.
First floor
The studio appartment used to be the only part of the castel that was inhabited. There are not tons of renovations to do and our plan is, to move into this part of the castel in summer or autumn 2022. New kitchen, new bathroom and a sleeping nook that is inspired by tiny houses will do the trick.
Yes this means to live in 55 sqm with two small children, but we hope to expand into the appartment soon after.
second and third floor- the appartment
the second floor is really our heart and soul, because it will create the base of our appartment where we plan to live with our family, raise our children and create the live we dream about. The third floor is no more than a tiny mezzanine in the living room. The first order of busines is the creation of the third floor: over the kitchen ( sometime called the terrasse) and over the bathroom, where the tower-room will be. The mezzanine in the living room needs to come down a few inches actually to be able to walk up there.
So we hired a local construction company to smash some holes in the walls and put some beams in place to create the third floor.
newly installed third floor above the (future) kitchen on the “terrasse’.