Fixing up your own retirement property is really special and you want to be able to have the very best.  In reality, money is always a problem, so when we found an old farmhouse in the South of France to renovate, we knew that money would be tight and that we might not get everything we hoped for.

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By building your own and taking the initiative to do it yourself you can save a huge amount of money.  This is our story…

We’ve got to the property and built our shed and workshops and now we are heading into the old stone building.  The kitchen for us, is the heart of our family.  We all love to cook and we love the emphasis that the French put on food, yet they just don’t know how to create a wonderful cooking environment.

French kitchens are sparse and not very well equipped, by most standards.  We plan to change that and building our cabinets was the first step.

After researching a variety of different diy cabinet plan downloads, we found the one that suited us the very best.  It had a wide selection and there were enough other great plans that we knew we would benefit from.  Having said that, the investment we made was worth the money just for the cabinet plans alone.

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Our decision to keep our costs to a minimum by using reclaimed wood not only saved us money, but also helped us to feel as if the old farmhouse was getting some of her history back.  We really want to be as sympathetic to the property as possible without losing any of the home comforts we have back home.

Our family want to have a holiday and retirement property that we can rent for profit until it comes time for us to live there permanently.  We hope you’ll follow us through our year of renovations.