The village aglow with early morning sunlight.
As our days in Mirabel dwindled down to the last few, we stepped up our efforts. One morning Rick arrived at 6 am in order to finish the tiling two of the bedrooms! On our last day of work, we were greeted with beautiful golden early morning light in Mirabel.
Our wonderful craftsmen: Christophe (on the left), is our electrician/plumber, and Francois (on the right) is our mason.
To prepare for the work of our electrician and plumber, Christophe Lopez, and mason, François Zamora, we had alot to do. They will be working on the house after we leave. We hope to have one bathroom fully remodeled by François and Christophe before Rick and Martha return in March, and all the electrical changes completed throughout the house. We have enjoyed working with François and Christophe as together we problem-solved how to make the improvements, updates and renovations we wanted. We feel very lucky to have them work for us. We’re happy that François lives close by in Mirabel with his family.
Two days before D-day (departure day), Martha and I were finally able to move a little of the furniture into two of the bedrooms. We were very excited to have gotten to this point. It was fun imagining the next time we come when we’ll actually be able to sleep at Chez Mirabel. We put the wrought iron queen bed frame in the master bedroom, along with a large wooden bureau and reading chair. The wooden sleigh bed fit perfectly in the middle bedroom, and we found a chest of drawers just the right size to fill the niche we created just for this purpose. The Italian floor tiles create a beautiful setting for the furniture.
–Dory
Master bedroom with wrought iron bed frame, ready to be assembled next time we come.
Bureau and chair in master bedroom
- Master bedroom
Middle bedroom with sleigh bed frame.
Landing at the top of the stairs on bedroom level with day bed and desk and chair by the window.