Starting in January 2024 France made it mandatory to separate food and other organic waste from general waste. For households this means that they need to take their bio waste either to collection bins provided by their municipality (that’s how it is organized in Grenoble) or to their individual or […]
The year 2023 was nothing special for us, or out of ordinary: we continued to do activities we like: cooking, running, hiking, walking, and just a little bit of skiing because of the bad snow situations last winter. What was exceptional, though, was that we didn’t do any bicycle tours […]
We spent the extended weekend in the spa town of Aix-les-Bains in Savoie department to escape, not the heat this time, but the wardrobe renovation in our second bedroom, currently serving as an office. We had already donated the old wardrobe to a young couple who took it down and […]
I hope this was the last bathroom renovation we ever do. Not that it was very hard for us, but the cleaning afterwards is just too much work. This time we were much wiser with regard to many things, especially protecting the furniture, books, clothes from dust — the fine […]
Earlier this summer we spent two weeks traveling while our bathroom was under renovation (separate post about that is forthcoming). Still after the works a few things were missing and we had a wrong toilet (because of unclear communication and some email glitches). For the contractors to finish up, yesterday […]
Our kitchen renovation was finished two days ago! When we bought the house, we were quite okay with the looks of the kitchen and the bathroom, but also sure that sooner or later we will completely renovate both. We started with the kitchen project since it seemed simpler; it only […]
Yesterday we finally signed the documents to sell our apartment in Grenoble, and thus finalized the 6-month project. It did not take that long because there was so much to do, but the delay was imposed by the French bureaucracy and errors made by the buyers’ bank. Our apartment had […]
A commonly used sound effect in horror movies is someone walking upstairs with a cane, when in fact there is no one. For us, it was reality for three years. When we bought and moved in our apartment in Île Verte, Grenoble, we had no idea that the apartment above […]
We started the bathroom project in February 2016, little after initiating the kitchen project. While the kitchen renovation was only partial, we wanted the bathroom completely redone. The old bathroom had a wash basin and both a bath tub and a shower, and very bad lighting. The toilet seat was […]