#08 Why we Moved to FRANCE with our family! decorating our french kitchen cabinet.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ต.ค. 2023
- Why we moved to France had several reasons. In this video we tell all our reasons while in the meantime we make the cupboard in the kitchen more cozy with brocante.
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In august 2022 our family left everything behind and moved to France - not knowing where we would end up. Finally, after a difficult search, we found our home: a neglected old farmhouse. This is our story after living one year in France.
Renovating and restoring our old farmhouse, the old barns and the garden and land will take years. But in the end, it's about the journey and not the end destination. After all, you should always have something to dream about. Right?
Perhaps our life story will also inspire you to pursue your dreams, whatever they may be. Join us on this extraordinary adventure, where dreams become reality, and possibilities are endless.
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A bientôt,
Colinda and Jeroen
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What a lovely story of your move to France. Yes, sometimes we dream of things and never follow through then have regrets. I guess during the Pandemic it really brought these subjects out in families that life is short and yes, you only live once so why not. With your decision it worked out brilliantly
I think there where a lot of people Who have changed drastically there lives after the pandemic. For us it was a good decisiuon, we fell so much more happy here.
Ce n'est pas facile de quitter son pays, sa famille. Il faut une bonne dose de courage et de volonté.
J’espère que vous vous plairez en France !
Merci,Je vous remercie. Nous vivons certainement très bien ici. Mais il a fallu beaucoup de courage.
My spouse and I have been married for 46 years. But for most of them we (well mostly me..haha!) had a dream to own property in the country. Finally in 2019 we found our dream property (it looks like it's in France but it's actually right here in the U.S.) We sold our other home in mid February, right before the stupid covid-19 lockdowns were to come in March! As self-employed people, our business too was in danger of falling apart because it involves doing work in homes, schools, churches and other public buildings....all closed. However, God is good and we came through it just fine! We just celebrated the start of 35 years in our business and it continues to grow!
You are right! Just go out and do it, follow your dreams....even if that dream takes a little longer than initially hoped for. For us it took 42 years before we found our dream home....but have been living happily in it since we finished the renovation of it and the rejuvenation of the 2 acres complete with a vineyard and orchard.
Hooray for you making your French lifestyle and home a reality! 🥰🥰
Wow that indeed sounds like a dream home. Living in the countryside is so nice.
Covid was really an unpleasant period for many people. Happy that things did work out for you with your business after covid. Especially since you guys had the business for years.
We had it since 2016 but had been self-employed since 2010.
Have a lovely day today 🥰
“Just do it” should men so much more to people since covid! So pleased you did as I enjoy following your dream ❤
Yes covid changed a lot for many people. I see it so much these days that people emigrated to another country.
I really enjoyed how you created a space, while telling your story 🌱⚘
Thank you 😀
You are incredible creative… you will exceed in anything creative you do…
Beautiful place
Thanks Yvonne, Creative I certainly am, and I love to decorate.
An enjoyable video, very peaceful watching the brocante being placed too 😀
Thanks, it is so different than our other videos. Because we mostly renovating till now. But i hoped that more people loved it to.
I so enjoyed hearing your story and seeing your treasures! Watching from Tasmania 😊
Thanks, i love decorating with old pieces. ☺️
Contente de vous suivre, bonne continuation
Merci 🥰
We love your story. Thanks for taking the leap. I am sure it will inspire many to take the leap!
Thanks I hope we do. Or to inspire them to pursue dreams other than emigrating.
Oh I loved everything about this video! So many treasures in that cabinet! And I actually own a couple of your enjoy brocante magazines! Keep up the good work!
Yes many treasures, and lots of treasures stil unpacked in the barn. 😅 nice to hear that you have some of our magazines. Maybe it will be in a few years also a collectors item 🤭. Now we don't make them anymore.
Thank you for sharing your journey guys, it is inspirational and very interesting to see how you guys are making a new life.👍❤
Thanks that's one of the reasons to started this channel. For inspiring others to follow there Dreams.
Why wouldn't you? I would if I could!!
Thanks peter, It was the best decision ever. After all these years of doubt.
Beautiful treasures. I sometimes dream of living in France but now we just have lovely long holidays there each summer which somewhat satiates that dream. Not quite but almost. I applaud your ‘just do it’ attitude.
It is a difficult chose to make. That's why it tooked 8 years for us. But going on long holidays here are also fantastic. We did that to the years before.
This is a wonderfully done video of your story of this journey 😊
Thanks, for your kind comment 🥰
Lovely story about your journey. Thanks for sharing.
You thanks for watching 🥰
Hope you have a lovely life in your new country. Love from
AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺
Thanks, Australia looks for me as an nice country to live.
@petitrevefrance We are very lucky in Australia. it's a beautiful country ❤️
Great to catch up with your Reno and life in general. You are doing so well. Hope your children are enjoying it all too❤❤👏👏👏👏
Thanks Susie, they Enjoy it to. At the beginning it was not always easy but now they doing so well. Have much friends and they speak the language better than us.
You have a great talent for decoration. Look forward to see all your renovation work!!!
Thanks Maria, we got so much to renovate the coming years ☺️
Love your videos and love your style ...
Thanks Sonia..🥰
Nice to ear why you decided to come and live in France. Hope it is not too difficult because French is a difficult language to learn (grammar). If you need any help with papers and administration don't hesitate to ask. Really like your decoration,, specially all the deco in the cupboard. Brocante is a magic world in France , there are a lot everywhere near where you live in 47.😊😊😊💯💯💯 You could open your own brocante , you have a good eye.
Thanks Deborah, it is indeed a difficult language (grammar) our kids speaks it better than us. Thanks for your offer for help with papers and administration, they have a lot here ☺️
There a indeed a lot of stores here in our surroundings, we have visited a few. In the Netherlands before i had our brocante magazine i had an shop with brocante en flowers. I am a fleuriste of origine. And i have a lots of brocante in our barn. 😅
Veel succes met jullie nieuwe leven in Frankrijk😀💪
Dankjewel ☺️
Keep doing the videos. They are lots of work, but your audience will grow!
Thanks, we definitely do. And we growed already so much since our start in June. 🥰
really enjoy your videos as we cannot get to our house yet .I love styling as well and watching you place everything so carefully x
Thanks Pippa, hopefully you can soon to your house?
Loved this. You should have a link to your wallpaper!
Thanks, here is a link www.littleamour.nl
Hello, thank you for this interesting video. I live in France and it's a very beautiful country with a lot of positive things, with it's problems though (like everywhere). For example homeschooling has recently been virtually banned, while I think it's a great educational alternative.
Thank you we live here very much ourselves. And indeed there are problems everywhere. In the Netherlands where we used to live, home schooling is also forbidden. Not that I am suitable for that. So I am glad that the children can go to school. But for many it is certainly not wrong.
@@petitrevefrance Yes it is forbidden in some other countries. I read that in the Netherlands, some parents fight in courts to be allowed to homeschool, pretty much like in France. That said, it seems that the dutch school system is really good, in particular in terms of the kids well-being. Also, France has a large number of homeschoolers who have shown that their kids learned well that way, so it's sad and disappointing for me that the government decided to get rid of that educational model, especially with the poor reasons they evoked.
wonderful that you did it!! it will be a beautiful house. where can I see your magazines? cheers from Berlin
The magazines are not for sale anymore in bookshops. But sometimes you can find them on the dutch site marktplaats ( a second hand market place) en perhaps in Germany on ebay. We had a retailer in Germany.
Goid afternoon, I am not sure why but your latest video didn't appear in my latest video list. Strange that. Alan xx
Also Good afternoon to you Alan, strange but luckily you saw our new video. Thanks for your support every time. Xx
Currently in process myself. But partner has doubts. Just wish she seen what i seen
Hi christophe, for us it was also the most difficult decision ever. And it took long. Lots of doubts. If you our your wife want to talk about it or more information about the proces of emigrating. You can send us an dm on Instagram petit_reve_france our send us an mail info@petitrevefrance.com
Hopefully your dream came true