So I go over to France for the weekend to celebrate my 40th and as we’re coming back over the channel I fire up my iPhone to catch up on Facebook. There’s a photo posted that takes my breath away… my folks have snuck in while I was away and had my courtyard decked! An amazing surprise to end off a perfect weekend. A few month’s later and the job is finished, the walls have been pointed and painted and my sanctuary is completed.

I’m almost embarrassed to post the before!