Furniture

[Jane]

Did you find yourselves buying much in the way of furniture over there?

No not much apart from a bed for visitors. Tip: bring a British bed or at least a good mattress if you can the French ones are rubbish, and not that easy to find a good choice.

We were lucky in that the house we are in now still had all the old furniture in it, all solid wood and very old but excellent quality. Not to everyone's taste these days but give me old hand made oak any day over machine made MDF.

We are going to be bringing beds and mattresses over. How I wish our house had had some fantastic old furniture in it, but we haven't been that lucky. There is absolutely nothing in either the house, or the annexe cottage. 
We prefer the old furniture too, so I'm with you on that one. I've been trawling the antique and second hand shops over here already.