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Little House in the Jura

All about our house-building project. We're building a house in France, in the Jura mountains overlooking Lake Geneva. And when we say "building" we mean it. Everything from the foundations up to the top of the basement with our own fair hands (plus those of friends and family). Sometime towards the end of 2008 (all being well), a log home company will come and build a log structure on top of our slipform masonry basement. Between now and then, there's a lot of work to be done ...

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2005-06-21

Stones

We've finally started laying stones!

After a trip to the plant hire company to pick up a mixer (didn't know they made them this small) ...



... we started pouring concrete into the bottom of the forms and heaving stones in on top yesterday evening.

Now it actually feels like we're building a house, rather than preparing to build a house.

posted by Steve Rawcliffe | 12:11

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