useful links / liens utiles (vers blogs en Anglais)

Link 1: The home blog of La Tour Orange
Link 2: La Tour Orange's Up-dated News & events
Link 3: A look at La Tour Orange's bookshelf
link 4: The exclusive La Tour Orange's where-to-eat guide
link 5: The blog full of ideas about what to do during your stay at La Tour Orange
link 6: We all have a responsability

At the begining / Au départ

08-09-2005

Work has started. The outside staircase will be removed.

L'escalier extérieur sera éliminé.

15-09-2005

The outside stair way under attack.

A l'attaque de l'escalier extérieur.

20-09-2005

01-10-2005

20-10-2005

20° in the afternoon and no wind the conditions are ideal for working outside. Today we are building the wall of the new bathroom.

Construction du mur de la future salle-de-bain.

28-10-2005

The core structure of the new terrace.

Les entrailles de la future terrasse.

03-11-2005

The scaffolding has been built around the house. Here seen from the river.

La maison et son échaffaudage vus depuis la rivière.

08-11-2005

Two more lake-view windows are being made. One on the 1st floor, the other one on the 2nd floor.

Deux nouvelles fenêtres sont percées, une au 1er étage et une au 2ème, toute les deux offrent une magnifique vue lac.

12-11-2005

8 hours of pneumatic hammer to make an access to the future bathroom.

Le résultat de huit heures de marteau piqueur, la nouvelle entrée de la salle-de-bain.

20-11-2005

self-portrait/Auto-portrait. Thanks to/remerciements: US Tires (skateboard shoes), Rossignol (ski socks), Rip Curl (surfer trousers), Dim (supporters), Burton (underwear first layer), Wanabee (shirt heavy duty), Scott (sleeveless jacket), adidas (glasses), Apple (headphones), Bosch (hardware).

20-11-2005

Ground floor, inside the living room...!

RdC, le séjour...!

25-11-2005

About 50 kg, that's the weight of each of the new beautiful stones used as a base for each window (the new windows but also all the existing ones as well).

Chacune de ces magnifiques pierres servant de seuils aux fenêtres (nouvelles et existantes) pèse environ 50 Kg.

28-11-2005

The roof tile less.

Le toit sans tuiles.

02-12-2005

Completing the new roof.

Assemblage du nouveau toit.

12-12-2005

The first sun ray of the day lights the brand new copper gutter like fire.

Les premiers rayons de soleil de la journée semblent mettre le feu aux gouttières.

14-12-2005

Amazing what one can fit in a Renault Kangoo. Here are about 1.000 kg of stones.

Une journée ordinaire. Une tonne de pierre dans le kangoo...

16-12-2005

Third layer of low built and micro porous translucent basecoat, as the base for four layers of outdoor-durable wood protection product. applied exclusively during the warmest hours of the day (between 1.30 and 3.30 pm).

Vernis transparent sur les voliges, appliqué au heures les plus chaudes de la journée entre 13h30 et 15h30.

18-12-2005

We take no chance. here is the simulation of how the west wall would behave if hit by a seaplane.

Nous essayons de tout prévoir. Ici, une simulation du comportement du mur Ouest en cas de collision avec un hydravion.