home tour: la cuisine

I'm enjoying time in the bright kitchen- have a thing for white right now, and the kitchen is very white.

It's nice to have some pantry space. We picked up this high table for about $10 and I painted the base- more white.

Sunlight :)

home tour: la chambre

Let's start the home tour in the bedroom. As you can see, we're keeping things simple: bed dresser, chair. And yes, this is the infamous bed. After we brought it safely home from it's previous room in Geneva, hanging out the back end of a vehicle, up the hilly roads, and finally up our entry stairs and into the living room, we discovered that we couldn't get it up the stairs to our bedroom. The ceiling beams were too low, the landing too narrow, the banister immovable- or the single piece, inflexible, wood bed was just too big for our little French house (and it's only a full size). We even brought in some of the best minds in physics and art to help us out. Couldn't go out and up through a window, couldn't remove the stairs, a hole in the ceiling/floor wouldn't seem to solve the problem. Finally we conceded to cut the bed in half. Et voila! bed bracketed back together, in the bedroom.

My favorite part of the room (besides the antique crocheted French blanket): windows, lots of light, and a view over the valley. Join me tomorrow in the kitchen...I love to be in the kitchen.

moving

It's moving time. Things have been super busy getting out new maison and finding a renter for our Thoiry apartment. We are headed just a little further down the valley to a town called Challex, still in France and bordering the Swiss vineyards. I am so excited to gather some used furniture and get settled in. We will be without internet...for an undisclosed amount of time, but I'll stop by CERN once in a while to check in with the rest of the world. Full town tour and house pics coming...soon-ish. For now, the view from the bedroom windows.