I want to be over her because. Honestly. I looked at myself in the mirror. The key I think to having a builder get your house the way you want it is to create an idea file with really specific pictures in it. We actually created an entire pdf by scanning images from books we'd bought, adding pictures from the web in order to get certain things exactly the way we wanted them, and then typeing or writing specific instructions on them. I actually copied the ink drawings of the outside elevations to get the window lights (the number of divisions in your pane) correct window by window on all sides of the house!.

It was 6.15am and St Raphael, the resort we were heading for, was only a little further along the coast. The two of us piled into the corridor, our elbows propped up on the window rail. Linear flashes of blue sea broke into view like geographical punctuation marks along the rocky bits of coastline, surmounted by a simmering blood orange sun that looked as if it was suffering fro