When the client asked, 'How far do you go?'

We confidently replied,'The Isle of Wight'.

'That's O'K',' he warmly replied,' come and have a look at my kitchen.'

The 12 hour drive took us to the middle of France where we surveyed the building site, a small chateaux which had no floor, ceiling or roof.

The client took our recommendations to swap the dining for the kitchen area, a point the architect, when the job was done, conceded looked better.

The finished article took 5 months to build. Click once on this image and watch a sequence of  diary images from the workshop to site