House tour & which project will be next?

we bought this 150y old farmhouse in the countryside of France and have been renovating it since 2019. many of you have asked for a full house tour or at least have asked to understand a bit more what this house house looks like and where all the different spaces of the house are Our Farmhouse is situated in Burgundy and it's a traditional "longère" as it's called which is a very long Farmhouse building with all of the different parts of the Farmhouse attached to one another so that means that the part where the farmers used to live is attached to the barn which is attached to the stables and then there are often extensions such as a little sun room and little sheds and it makes for this one long building which they call a "longère" ler and it's typical for the region here in Burgundy so when you hear me say the old house I'm referring to the part where the farmer traditionally lived It's this part of the house and we lived here when we moved in in 2019. We've lived here for a total of 3 years without touching anything in here we just gave the walls a fresh coat of paint knowing that we would completely renovate this house in good time This is the old kitchen and it's at the back of the house it's an extension. This was unheated so we were literally freezing here in the winter but I've always really loved this part of the house and I know we'll make it even more beautiful in the future now onto the former barn which is now the kitchen. This is what it looked like when we bought the house in 2018. There was nothing and we turned it into this beautiful kitchen that you've probably already seen It was so much work but we are so thrilled with the result Then there's the former stables which we have turned into a holiday cottage this is what they looked like in 2019. we could have literally put cows in here everything was still there and we turned this into the holiday Cottage that it is today nothing that you see in this space was originally here not even the fireplace or the beam over the window and the front door We recreated everything as best as we could by sourcing secondhand materials such as the mantelpiece for the fireplace and old interior doors which is why we've always been really happy to have the hangar which I won't show you as that's where where we could store all of our finds and all of our junk so what is going to be our next project? That is the question that Olav and I have been thinking about in the past weeks We would love to build a second cabin and we probably will but we've decided to finish our house first we really don't need all that space to be honest although we do have more and bigger groups of family and friends visiting which we absolutely love. So the old house has a living room, bathroom and a bedroom with no windows we use this as a guest room now but the living room has been used for storage really everything that we didn't know where to put has been stored in that space but on the second floor that's over over the living room there is nothing it is a "Grenier" so it's just an attic. it's not even airtight so there's lots of animals walking there and we want to turn that into an office and music room but before we can do that we need to check the beams of the floor so we're sure that that floor is stable enough and we actually already know it's not so we need to reinforce that floor so we need to strip the downstairs so we can check all the beams and structure so we're cleaning out the old living room and we need to move everything elsewhere : our washing machine, our dryer all of our tools everything that was there is now going to the old kitchen which is now available since we now have our new kitchen so as you can tell from my sighing and almost whining it's a lot of work If anyone is ever going to ask me what renovating a house in France looks like I will tell them: moving things from one place to the other like 73 times the good news though is that this forces me to finish off all the little details that I haven't finished for the kitchen and pantry which means labeling all my stuff and - you'll laugh about this - finally getting my spice jars sorted. I bought these really beautiful little spice jars and I had labels custom made so that I can really finally have some decent organization in my kitchen and that just feels like such a luxury after having moved kitchens I don't know how many times in the past 5 years I think I say this with every space and all the time but the pantry is still not entirely finished Olav still needs to put in the ceiling there but since all of the pipes and electricity run through there he's still not able to do this but we did do some other final things that we still needed to do in the pantry and kitchen like I said I organized my jars, stocked up because a lot of our food storage was in the former living room and it now needed to go into the pantry. We have also put all my copper and my clean cooking pans and skillets in the kitchen they were all still in storage we also put the freezer in the pantry now and many of you have asked where is your freezer, where's your fridge? They are both in the pantry and not in the kitchen and I have to say I am so happy with this setup. We also finally brought our water filter back that we put away when we moved out of the old kitchen and into the cottage We didn't have a good place to put it in the cottage when we lived there temporarily so so I am so happy to have it back now And maybe you'd already noticed the tiles there: that's where the wood fired stove / range is going to go so Olav is preparing that. so to sum it all up this is what the house looks like there are sheds all the way up north of the house -well it in the bottom in this picture- then there's the old house with the old kitchen, our new kitchen and a sun room and the cottage and the hangar then there's the garden with the swimming pool and behind the swimming pool is the cabin which overlooks the meadows and the forest. I hope this clears any confusion you may have had I also want to share with you that just talking about our next plans it sparked so much creativity and plans and ideas for our old house: so for our future Salon / living room and the offices upstairs and for our bedroom which will be over the new kitchen There are still so many beautiful spaces that I get to design so I can't stop the creative flow! As soon as Olav talks about the renovation works I start designing in my head, I can't stop it and I'm fully enjoying that process