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Real estate: the self-renovation trend is gaining more and more fans
More and more French people are embarking on renovating their homes. A practice that takes a lot of time, but allows for big savings.
(France 2)
More and more French people are embarking on renovating their homes. A practice that takes a lot of time, but allows for big savings.
The site visit is the new trend on social networks. There are hundreds of them completely renovating their homes themselves and sharing the progress of the work on the Internet. Tearing everything out, spraying the plaster on the walls, drilling, fixing: these actions no longer scare Pauline and Antoine. They started renovating an old farmhouse a year and a half ago. “We don’t go on vacation or on weekends, we see our friends a little less”, she explains. They bought their building for 250,000 euros. If they chose to carry out the work alone, it is to have a house that suits them and to reduce their renovation budget.
Learn through social media
Savings, provided you have time. In Gironde, Magalie and Stéphane are beginning their seventh year of work. They left their jobs for this project. To learn, they relied on the numerous videos posted online by other enthusiasts. “If you don’t know how to do something, you just have to learn it, get informed, ask the right people and get started”according to Magalie.
