Friday, March 21, 1997 ~ North Shore News — 47

| Renovating a rustic retreat

EADERS of West Van artist Paul Deggan’s amusing paperback Ad) Our Summers Are
French will be familiar with the story of how Paul and his wite Babette purchased a warren
f rundown buildings in a medieval hilltop village and wanstormed them into a summer
centre for the arts, all the while raising two Kids and leading a b-continental existence. The trades:
people who assisted the Deggans with renovations to their school in the Auvergne were often
inept but sc rich in character, Paul recalls, that they made “such marvelous copy for my book.”
The Deggans will ha sore stories to tell Wednesday, April 9, when ther will be at Capilano
College to recruit students for their July workshops and September Elderhoste! program. Hear : weee: ;
their stories ,7 to 9 p.m. in Birch Building, Reom 125. : Toe
— Layne Christensen ” KITCHEN BEFORE .
“EVERYTHING that had
been done to this house
had been done badly,”
says Paul. The original
flagstone in the kitchen,
hidden beneath
linoteum (above), had
been destroyed when
the house was occupied
during the Second
World War by Belgian
refugees who had
chopped their firewood
indoors. The kitchen
counter (left) is sal-
vaged from a 19th cen-
tury boutique.

IN the ster-vaulted room
that is the Deggans’
bedroom (right), the res-
ident priest ence taught
catechism to the village
children. Framed on the
wall are handmade
Christening dresses
worn by Babette’s moth-

“THE place realty looked
as if it had been hit by
bombs,” says Paul. Of
the previous owners, he
they confined their .
ing to two rooms: the.

kitchen and a bedroom.
Concealed behind brick
and mortar, was the 15th
century fireplace, once
used to bake bread. The
Deggans have added one
modern convenience:

er and grandmother.
The elegant 18th centu-
ry stone fireplace was
revealed with the
removal of an early 20th
century cooking stove,
visible at the far right of

central heating — “Likely the photo (eft).

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