Bedroom

On the day I signed the compromis for the house in December '06, Lizzie and I went into Béziers to buy supplies for the garden. On the way we stopped at a brocante where I spied these beautiful brackets which I bought as an offering for the new house. Thank you L & A for storing them for at least a year before I figured out how to use them.

Henny decided to strip them. Pou helped. We fixed them underneath the newly exposed beams in the bedroom.

Formerly a small room, walls and ceiling covered in pine...

it was enlarged by taking out a corridor, moving a big wall, tearing down the ceiling and re-siting a water tank that lived in the crawl space above, making good various floor levels, re-tiling the lot, and turning a window into a full-length door. The door profits from having the grille we lost from the 1st floor tower window repositioned here. The before bed is a tiny double. To give an idea of scale, the bed below is 6' x 6'6". The ceiling is 4 metres at its highest point before sloping down. The room isn't quite finished, but it's certainly different. It's a joy to wake up looking out to the garden.