Feb 22, 2016
Early February 2016 saw us embark on a roller coaster of a week in the Lot-et-Garonne (47) in South West France. Our mission… To find a rental property in the area we love, to serve as both a base for developing Studio Faire and to give us a little time to...
Oct 19, 2015
I never fell out of love with my first love, I think I may have neglected it for a while though. Summer 2015 saw me diving head-first back into my original creative passion of photography and I have never been so energised or animated. Then… I moved to Edinburgh...
Oct 9, 2015
US Julia is on a mission to develop the Studio Faire blog into an informative, entertaining blog about the Douglas Usher journey to set up a creative retreat in rural South West France. With a focus on the creative reader who is interested in joining us on this...
Sep 12, 2015
We were not completely naive you know? We did realise that it was a huge risk to fall in love with a property at such an early stage of our research into the Lot-et-Garonne department, the costs of renovating a French property and what this would mean for our French...
Aug 12, 2015
Having narrowed down the perfect location for Studio Faire to the South West of France, an easy one and a half hour drive from airports in Bordeaux, Bergerac or Toulouse, we have since been on a mission to find that elusive property which will offer the perfect pace...
