Other conversion blogs

On a whim I searched for other blogs that record people's renovation and conversion projects. There is a lot of talk about them, and a lot of talk about property, but very few good examples that I could find in a 60 minute search with Google.

We are not responsible for the content of these sites, but here are one or two more relevant multi-cultural links to:

• The record of a 'brownstone' renovation in New York city that also includes local neighbourhood and development/real-estate issues
• A gite in Brittany, France that has been completed (and is now taking bookings!)
• A house renovation in an historic area of New Orleans, USA - post Hurricane Katrina

Reading these also made us think about why we are doing this:

• The first reason was we wanted to keep our family around the world up to date with progress on the accommodation they will be using when they visit
• When we looked around we found very few 'real life stories' about old restorations. They were usually partly told, or were incomplete, or were a partial restoration (a new extension, or new bathroom), or dealt with a modern property
• We also thought it might inspire people to visit or even try a project like this themselves