Guides
Four things worth reading first
These are about the building and the approach — the parts of a France move that actually catch people out. Plenty of sites will explain the paperwork; far fewer will tell you to measure the reveal.
Moving into a French stone house
Old French houses defeat furniture in ways modern houses do not. Almost all of it is predictable, and almost none of it is predicted.
You have bought, or are about to move into, an old rural property in France.
02Emptying a French property to come home
Going out, you filled the house. Coming back, you have to take it apart — and decide, item by item, what has a place in a British house.
You are selling or leaving a French property and moving back to the UK.
03Access surveys for rural French properties
A vehicle that cannot reach the door turns a loading job into a carrying job. That is a decision to make at survey, not at the end of a lane.
Your French property is rural, in a village centre, or up a track.
04Furnishing a French property from Britain
Not every France move is a house move. A great many are a dozen carefully chosen pieces going out to a property that is already yours.
You own a French property and want to furnish it from the UK.
Tell us about the building
Which property, which direction, and what is in the barn. We will come back with what we need to see and how we would run it.