Today their daily life includes French village life, raising children, a garden, a vegetable patch, creativity, and endless tidying tasks inside and outside the house. However, the romance that is easy to imagine when hearing the words “old house in France” was much less at the beginning. “We needed to reclaim the space in the house,” Augustė admits.
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The house that the family is gradually bringing back to life has a special history – it was purchased by Augustė’s husband’s great-grandfather. However, for many years before the young family moved in, no one lived there. The rooms were full of things, and the building itself required not only a love for antiquity but also very specific work, time, and money. And there is another unusual detail in this story: legally, the house does not yet belong to Augustė and her husband. But such “French” nuances do not scare the artist couple. According to Augustė, she always dreamed of having her own “village,” “house,” but probably never imagined she would find it not in Lithuania, but in France.
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“I just fell in love with that house. Besides, we had definitely outgrown our apartment in Lithuania, having become a family of four. And now, as we are expecting our third child, moving to a house takes on even greater meaning,” the interviewee notes, openly sharing both the joys and challenges of life on the outskirts of France.
