A wiser man than me once said: it's not what you make, but how you make it. Thank you for sharing your home building journey, and your approach to life. A toast to you, Roger. Cheers 🍷
The curtains look great. Perfect touch . My wife thinks so, too. We both appreciate learning about the lime with hemp fibers for breathable walls. Thanks for the tips.
So enlightening to see your approach to modern renovation and design that basis’ itself on practicality not the norm…and all with no shades of grey! Long live the joys of colour👏
The problem is that the filming is not the actual building, but the fake building for the camera, and it's easy to forget all the stuff you tend to put on when you're actually working. I know I'm setting a bad example though.
A moment of calm, warm sanity, on a day of disbelief. Your house looks lovely to me, Roger. And that Wharram catamaran at the end looks sweet, too. Thank you for the video.
As a retired builder in tge US I watch with amazed views on your technic and I must say the end result is stunning thanks for this series nice juxtaposition between this and sailing. I very much enjoy both.
It’s really coming together. Love the leather pulls. Thanks for the visit. Your abode will suit you and we’ll all be envious from afar. A fish and chips takeaway in the interim before your kitchen is finished will fortify you for the work that lies ahead. Cheers!
At about 19:00, you mention your outside lavatory and talk about how you should have given us beautiful shots of the house finished - you must have just returned from said privy for your flies are undone. Perhaps you should install a commode beside the wood burner. I am a big fan of your videos
It is a wonder to me how you have taken an, otherwise, uninhabitable building and turned it into a fine home. My wife did this for our forever retirement home, in the US, on the Little River, in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains of east Tennessee. Roger, it’s so much money, so much time and our little place is home now. I can hardly wait to see your’s…from an old vet..
Can't go wrong with a bit of hemp. I even have rasta charts on my boat! Seriously though, what a lovely job you are making of this house. It's great, mate. Cheers from Netley, Southampton. Nick.
Wonderful progress on your place Rodger. Thank you so much for sharing all of your methodical thoughtful, and tasteful renovation of beautiful place. Our “first fix” here in California is called to be “roughed in”, then there is the final or finish installation.
It is starting to look like house. And i am looking forward to the next episode of the house becoming. The fireplace is the beating heart of the house in my opion. And you have that running. I think this house is gonna look amazing. Greetings from the Netherlands,, Kitty.
Would like to see a book on the renovation, life in the port, maybe with a few well disguised characters, a bit of history etc. with your turn of phrase and descriptive skills, it would be a best seller.
Roger, it’s completely cool! Remember that a lot of us are sick of of cookie-cutter half-hour programs that show the start, work, and miraculous trophy of the completed project. With the links to invest in all the products and services that a program production company can sell. I think we all want to see it when it’s done, but many of us love to see the journey, including untidy kitchens and unplastered bedroom walls. It’s all beautiful, and delayed gratification on seeing it finished has its rewards.
Another grand video, to watch on a cold November day. Nice to see your home taking shape. The use of Ivar units for a kitchen base is brilliantly simple, and your kitchen looks fantastic with the appliances in.😊 I'm chuckling, that I am in a similar situation to you. I've retired to a small fishing village on the north shore of Nova Scotia, and am fixing up an 1858 farmhouse. Presently living on the upper floor, with space heaters, and a temporary kitchen..... Whilst the downstair is an open construction site, with insulation being put in, new wiring, new plumbing, etc. Plus, the only functioning toilet is in an unheated room on the main floor. 😄 No wood stove yet, but I have had a heat pump installed. Ahhhhh..... Good Times! Looking forward to future videos Roger. Cheers!
Roger your videos have such warmth and charm. I should tell you that they're having a real effect on me, to the point where I'm now dreaming about retiring in Brittany one day and sailing in small boats. If I were living there now, I would like to think we could be friends.
Roger although not finished yet I love it and what a great project. You will be so satisfied once you get to the end some day, but it is already looking like a home. Thanks for sharing.
Enjoying this series so much. Just moved in to a new build in the US, we waited for Artisans too. We are mixing a great deal from IKEA with treasured Victorian pieces and it’s working, I agree that the opening of the boxes is a challenge.
It looks amazing. You did better with the IKEA bits than I've seen - that kitchen looks great. And the 2nd floor, and the plaster work. I do absolutely love these videos. Especially today. Cheers and well made, sir.
Such fun! As an Architect in Canada, you've just reminded me of all the projects I cobbled together with Ikea parts in my youth. You are also inspiring me to go out and press on with the interior refit of my art studio.
I love the deliberate and thoughtful approach to your home restoration. Also, thank you for sharing the bucolic French port and the lifestyle - it's conveyed brilliantly.
Looks great Roger, bespoke, just you etc etc. Btw i pick up my very first yacht next week, Quicksilver 16 circa 1980. Insired to a degree by your joyous adventures! 👍
I loved watching this, can't wait for the next one. My house in Fremantle, West Oz is similar, ( bought run down and slowly doing up), it's been years in my case though...
This would be almost overwhelming to me but you have the makings of a beautiful home and seem to know what you are doing. Congrats and may the last go as well as the first...
It's coming along nicely Roger. I like what you are doing. Soon enough you'll screw the last screw and plaster the last wall. I really like that hemp plaster. I'm going to show that to my friend who is try to get straw bale homes and that plaster would be great on the interiors. ❤
Thankyou roger again for a splendid video i think your house is beautiful and full character and interest and lovely use of the ikea cabinets really glad to see such a alternative way to view interior design,best wishes robert
These films are as relaxing and Zen as your sailing films and for us landlubbers,even more interesting. Hemp,the non psychotic kind is such a strong and universally useful crop. Ive heard it got banned by the early 20th century oil lobby. I worked in an IKEA for four years. Hoovering and dusting ! I was an early morning cleaner. I really enjoyed it. I wouldn't buy my furniture at IKEA but they do have good things,you have to be picky.
Im going to have to content myself with watching someone else do what I had intended to do but can't for reasons that hardly need explaining. But at least you have the expertise do it properly! You're going to end up with a great house in a great place. Thanks for sharing.
Keep up the good work! Thanks for sharing your progress on your remodel of your home. I am sure you are enjoying the wood stove. It is like camping living in the house during your remodel but I am sure it is much more comfortable than sleeping, cooking and eating on the dinghy. I will be interested in hearing your thoughts of the completed project and especially the use of the more natural materials in an older structure. Take care.
Ah, the IVAR. I'm reminded that, for a time, IKEA became our second home, so many times did we visit for the features in two houses. I still have some IVAR from 1995, across a wall. Nobody seems to know where it's from but everybody likes it for its sheer practicality. It goes darker, as you'd expect. Got a little issue with that wood burner. I guess they're still allowed in France. Won't be long before they won't be new in the UK, by my reckoning. Particulate pollution and they make lots of it. Just because it's wood doesn't make it good... when burned. Great video as always. Love the sink.
The French state gives eco grants for people to put in woodturners, so I think it will a while. The existential crisis facing humanity is CO2, not particulate emissions - and France has lots of timber.
@@RogerRoving Hi. Whilst I agree that we face a CO2 borne climate crisis, we also have to consider particulate matter, which in size form of PM 2.5 isn't that great for humans, finding its way into our lungs and blood vessels. In the UK, domestic burning of wood and coal accounts for 27% of PM2.5 emissions. In comparison, industry accounts for 26%, so this isn't fantastic for domestic burners. They also produce plenty of CO2. I suspect that France will come around eventually. Besides, I'm just making the observation. I like woodburners too, and had one in NZ when I lived there.
Greetings from Canada, Would love to visit - definitely on the "bucket list". If you'll allow, perhaps you should consider replacing that wood stove with a heat pump? That way your heating would be powered by benign sources of energy, like windmills and solar panels, which (I am told) are the primary sources of electricity in Europe. I should think heat pumps would work well in warmish climes like France. After all, we must care for the deteriorating climate, and burning wood, with all the poisonous CO2 emissions that entails, is so passe. Not only would you avoid producing CO2, but you would also release the demand for cutting down trees, which actually remove CO2 from the atmosphere. A win-win, if you ask me.
You are miss informed, windmills making enough power for all European houses, are you serious? The wood burner will run so clean it's emissions will be virtually zero , unlike your North American polluting wood stove.
It's slightly complex, because I can get eco grants in France, but I need a house with a heating system first. So I'm putting in the wood stove and 3x electric rads. After that, for phase 2, I'm thinking an air-air heat pump and displacing the rads to the 1st floor, for which I would get a grant. I'll keep the wood stove though, because the French like them, as they're seen as Zero carbon, because we have lots of forests here, and so lots of local firewood suppliers. It's also a brand new stove so very efficient. Indeed, I could have got an eco grant for the stove, but I would have had to have used a registered installer, which would have been more expensive.
Ikea is an amazing company but still see it as a guilty pleasure because of your comment. Good to see progress and like the out and about segments too.
In the USA today of all days this video feels like a breath of fresh air combined with a punch in the gut. I wish my family were in a situation where expatriation were an option.
A wiser man than me once said: it's not what you make, but how you make it. Thank you for sharing your home building journey, and your approach to life. A toast to you, Roger. Cheers 🍷
Excellent video Roger. Thank you. You are doing a great job on the house.
Roger, you've no idea how timely your video has come to us. Thank you for sharing the simple beauty of your home.
They say a log fire warms twice. Once when you cut them and twice when you burn them. The house will great when finished! 👍
It’s great to see you restore a beautiful old house carefully and patiently.
Thanks for such an interesting video.
Thank you Roger! This is just what I needed today. Helps to heal.
The curtains look great. Perfect touch . My wife thinks so, too. We both appreciate learning about the lime with hemp fibers for breathable walls.
Thanks for the tips.
Better than any decor drama I've seen.
Super progress. The house has great bones.
I really enjoy your videos concerning the building experience in France. The techniques, the natural materials, the craftspeople. Thanks!
So enlightening to see your approach to modern renovation and design that basis’ itself on practicality not the norm…and all with no shades of grey! Long live the joys of colour👏
I love when one of your meditations show up, they are truly moments of Zen.
Always exciting to find you have posted a new video Roger. Once again we were transported to a gentler more thoughtfully world. Thank you for sharing.
Looking great...Good to see you wearing your safety sandals. 😂😂
The problem is that the filming is not the actual building, but the fake building for the camera, and it's easy to forget all the stuff you tend to put on when you're actually working. I know I'm setting a bad example though.
Wonderful thank you
A moment of calm, warm sanity, on a day of disbelief. Your house looks lovely to me, Roger. And that Wharram catamaran at the end looks sweet, too. Thank you for the video.
😂
Interestng, soothng, inspiring. Thank you Roger.
As a retired builder in tge US I watch with amazed views on your technic and I must say the end result is stunning thanks for this series nice juxtaposition between this and sailing.
I very much enjoy both.
Roger is certainly a man of many talents! bravo sir. Shout out to the early days Ikea in Warrington :)
As long as the roof is watertight camping in the house is fantastic . l like your style . Nothing better than a woodburner
Slowly, perhaps, but surely, everything is going to get together. It is going to be a wonderful place to live in.
Always so enjoyable & interesting!! Thanx I needed this today of all days! America is in mourning today,that is if you are a sane person!
You’re absolutely correct. My Beautiful Country may slide into ruin with that idiot at the helm
I think you mean joyfully celebrating the push back of the Lizards. For now.
It’s really coming together. Love the leather pulls. Thanks for the visit. Your abode will suit you and we’ll all be envious from afar. A fish and chips takeaway in the interim before your kitchen is finished will fortify you for the work that lies ahead. Cheers!
At about 19:00, you mention your outside lavatory and talk about how you should have given us beautiful shots of the house finished - you must have just returned from said privy for your flies are undone.
Perhaps you should install a commode beside the wood burner.
I am a big fan of your videos
Roger thankyou for a bit of calm and peace cheers Marty Australia
It is a wonder to me how you have taken an, otherwise, uninhabitable building and turned it into a fine home. My wife did this for our forever retirement home, in the US, on the Little River, in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains of east Tennessee. Roger, it’s so much money, so much time and our little place is home now. I can hardly wait to see your’s…from an old vet..
Very inspiring. Thank you.
Hello Sir Barnes, just finished your book and it's a pleasure to see your video at the same time, please dont let us in dark too long, cheers.
What amazing space, it’s perfect!
Can't go wrong with a bit of hemp. I even have rasta charts on my boat!
Seriously though, what a lovely job you are making of this house. It's great, mate.
Cheers from Netley, Southampton.
Nick.
Wonderful progress on your place Rodger. Thank you so much for sharing all of your methodical thoughtful, and tasteful renovation of beautiful place. Our “first fix” here in California is called to be “roughed in”, then there is the final or finish installation.
Nice curtains 👍
It is starting to look like house. And i am looking forward to the next episode of the house becoming. The fireplace is the beating heart of the house in my opion. And you have that running.
I think this house is gonna look amazing.
Greetings from the Netherlands,, Kitty.
Would like to see a book on the renovation, life in the port, maybe with a few well disguised characters, a bit of history etc. with your turn of phrase and descriptive skills, it would be a best seller.
Roger, it’s completely cool! Remember that a lot of us are sick of of cookie-cutter half-hour programs that show the start, work, and miraculous trophy of the completed project. With the links to invest in all the products and services that a program production company can sell.
I think we all want to see it when it’s done, but many of us love to see the journey, including untidy kitchens and unplastered bedroom walls. It’s all beautiful, and delayed gratification on seeing it finished has its rewards.
Another grand video, to watch on a cold November day. Nice to see your home taking shape. The use of Ivar units for a kitchen base is brilliantly simple, and your kitchen looks fantastic with the appliances in.😊
I'm chuckling, that I am in a similar situation to you. I've retired to a small fishing village on the north shore of Nova Scotia, and am fixing up an 1858 farmhouse. Presently living on the upper floor, with space heaters, and a temporary kitchen..... Whilst the downstair is an open construction site, with insulation being put in, new wiring, new plumbing, etc. Plus, the only functioning toilet is in an unheated room on the main floor. 😄 No wood stove yet, but I have had a heat pump installed. Ahhhhh..... Good Times! Looking forward to future videos Roger. Cheers!
Roger your videos have such warmth and charm. I should tell you that they're having a real effect on me, to the point where I'm now dreaming about retiring in Brittany one day and sailing in small boats. If I were living there now, I would like to think we could be friends.
There are worse places to live...
It gives me what they call in Germany ‘Fernweh’. Really nice
It's looking very very good Mr Barnes. I can see your vision. Totally agree with putting up the curtains early. Cheerful choice of curtains too!
I really admire how your home is turning out. Your style is very attractive. Looks like a very fine life you are leading.
Roger although not finished yet I love it and what a great project. You will be so satisfied once you get to the end some day, but it is already looking like a home. Thanks for sharing.
That's how it is with construction...nice to see it coming along
THANK YOU FOR MAKING
Paradise found Roger -- well done.
So much character and beauty in the house and your designs. Looking forward to seeing what it looks like in the end Roger. 😀
Fantastic, you may be camping in a house but it’s yours ❤ fantastic.
Love such honest and calm videos!
None to worry Roger you are getting there things are coming together together,
Your place looks cosy . . . warm and I like your use of the IVAR from Ikea!
Very nice - keep going...
Amazing . You are an inspiration Roger. Thank you.
Enjoying this series so much. Just moved in to a new build in the US, we waited for Artisans too. We are mixing a great deal from IKEA with treasured Victorian pieces and it’s working, I agree that the opening of the boxes is a challenge.
Looking good - a 'proper job' as my Cornish cousin would say!!
Needed this ❤
It looks amazing. You did better with the IKEA bits than I've seen - that kitchen looks great. And the 2nd floor, and the plaster work. I do absolutely love these videos. Especially today. Cheers and well made, sir.
I must really have nothing to do being the second person to add a comment. Good thing I actually enjoy these videos. Keep it up.
Though I am mostly following this channel for sailing videos, this was a good inspiration for my upcoming construction project. Thank you.
Absolutely amazing. It will be a very nice home, i think.
second time watching. very enjoyable. project looks good
If there’s nothing I appreciate more about your videos, it’s your candidness on all things. That being said, your barn door is open at about 19:01
I'm not sure it was, I think its the zip from my gilet. But you might be right.
Glad to see that everything is coming on well.
Such fun! As an Architect in Canada, you've just reminded me of all the projects I cobbled together with Ikea parts in my youth. You are also inspiring me to go out and press on with the interior refit of my art studio.
I love the deliberate and thoughtful approach to your home restoration. Also, thank you for sharing the bucolic French port and the lifestyle - it's conveyed brilliantly.
Looks great Roger, bespoke, just you etc etc. Btw i pick up my very first yacht next week, Quicksilver 16 circa 1980. Insired to a degree by your joyous adventures! 👍
Excellent work,thank you for sharing..a pleasure to watch your production.
Enjoyed seeing the video and the progress. Lovely. Could watch hours of that. 🙂
It's looking fantastic with great individual touches. Love the kitchen and the woodburner of course. Looks like a great homely space.
I love how it all looks so far..
Good luck in your new home 👍
I loved watching this, can't wait for the next one. My house in Fremantle, West Oz is similar, ( bought run down and slowly doing up), it's been years in my case though...
It’s becoming a wonderful home
Doing great Roj. You'll get there champ.
Beautiful Roger!
Great work, coming along quite well!
That plaster mixture is fascinating. Here in the US drywall is the rule but it's so sterile.
I like it!🙂
This would be almost overwhelming to me but you have the makings of a beautiful home and seem to know what you are doing. Congrats and may the last go as well as the first...
Coming along well. love seeing what you are achieving. Keep these and you sailing adventures coming. Best regards from Australia.
Tá ficando muito bom, parabéns 👏👏👏👏
Thanks for making and sharing the journey of your house renovation. I rally enjoy your filmmaking Roger.
Well done Roger. I love your sailing videos. Love from Australia.🐨🐨🐨
Enjoying this series on your houses. Its looking good 👌
It's coming along nicely Roger. I like what you are doing. Soon enough you'll screw the last screw and plaster the last wall. I really like that hemp plaster. I'm going to show that to my friend who is try to get straw bale homes and that plaster would be great on the interiors. ❤
The nice thing is the lightness compared to lime/sand.
Nice to see my neighbour hard at work in your video Roger , Great work , house is looking great
You must come round before you fly off to snowboarding heaven!
Thankyou roger again for a splendid video i think your house is beautiful and full character and interest and lovely use of the ikea cabinets really glad to see such a alternative way to view interior design,best wishes robert
These films are as relaxing and Zen as your sailing films and for us landlubbers,even more interesting. Hemp,the non psychotic kind is such a strong and universally useful crop. Ive heard it got banned by the early 20th century oil lobby. I worked in an IKEA for four years. Hoovering and dusting ! I was an early morning cleaner. I really enjoyed it. I wouldn't buy my furniture at IKEA but they do have good things,you have to be picky.
Coming along very nicely, Roger!!
Looking wonderful!!!
Looking very cosy already. Thanks for the lovely welcome to your home.
Im going to have to content myself with watching someone else do what I had intended to do but can't for reasons that hardly need explaining. But at least you have the expertise do it properly! You're going to end up with a great house in a great place. Thanks for sharing.
love the ikea kitchen hack !!
Keep up the good work! Thanks for sharing your progress on your remodel of your home. I am sure you are enjoying the wood stove. It is like camping living in the house during your remodel but I am sure it is much more comfortable than sleeping, cooking and eating on the dinghy. I will be interested in hearing your thoughts of the completed project and especially the use of the more natural materials in an older structure. Take care.
Ah, the IVAR. I'm reminded that, for a time, IKEA became our second home, so many times did we visit for the features in two houses. I still have some IVAR from 1995, across a wall. Nobody seems to know where it's from but everybody likes it for its sheer practicality. It goes darker, as you'd expect.
Got a little issue with that wood burner. I guess they're still allowed in France. Won't be long before they won't be new in the UK, by my reckoning. Particulate pollution and they make lots of it. Just because it's wood doesn't make it good... when burned. Great video as always. Love the sink.
The French state gives eco grants for people to put in woodturners, so I think it will a while. The existential crisis facing humanity is CO2, not particulate emissions - and France has lots of timber.
@@RogerRoving Hi. Whilst I agree that we face a CO2 borne climate crisis, we also have to consider particulate matter, which in size form of PM 2.5 isn't that great for humans, finding its way into our lungs and blood vessels. In the UK, domestic burning of wood and coal accounts for 27% of PM2.5 emissions. In comparison, industry accounts for 26%, so this isn't fantastic for domestic burners. They also produce plenty of CO2. I suspect that France will come around eventually. Besides, I'm just making the observation. I like woodburners too, and had one in NZ when I lived there.
its looking great...really coming along.
Greetings from Canada, Would love to visit - definitely on the "bucket list". If you'll allow, perhaps you should consider replacing that wood stove with a heat pump? That way your heating would be powered by benign sources of energy, like windmills and solar panels, which (I am told) are the primary sources of electricity in Europe. I should think heat pumps would work well in warmish climes like France. After all, we must care for the deteriorating climate, and burning wood, with all the poisonous CO2 emissions that entails, is so passe. Not only would you avoid producing CO2, but you would also release the demand for cutting down trees, which actually remove CO2 from the atmosphere. A win-win, if you ask me.
You are miss informed, windmills making enough power for all European houses, are you serious? The wood burner will run so clean it's emissions will be virtually zero , unlike your North American polluting wood stove.
It's slightly complex, because I can get eco grants in France, but I need a house with a heating system first. So I'm putting in the wood stove and 3x electric rads. After that, for phase 2, I'm thinking an air-air heat pump and displacing the rads to the 1st floor, for which I would get a grant. I'll keep the wood stove though, because the French like them, as they're seen as Zero carbon, because we have lots of forests here, and so lots of local firewood suppliers. It's also a brand new stove so very efficient. Indeed, I could have got an eco grant for the stove, but I would have had to have used a registered installer, which would have been more expensive.
Ikea is an amazing company but still see it as a guilty pleasure because of your comment.
Good to see progress and like the out and about segments too.
Totally agree
amazing. good job
Promising !
And after all, is'nt Douarneney the main character ? La récompense ?
Merci pour le partage.
Great video thanks for sharing if it makes you feel better I bought and add on to my house 24 years ago and it’s still not finished!!!!
In the USA today of all days this video feels like a breath of fresh air combined with a punch in the gut. I wish my family were in a situation where expatriation were an option.
😂
Looks like a home.
Nice