DU BOIS À LA MAISON

A house in the forest. A creative studio. A family in the countryside.

Du bois à la maison means From the forest to the house in French. We are Samuel (photographer and filmmaker) and Sara (writer and graphic designer), a couple with two young children, aged three and five, who decided to swap the city of Paris for rural life in a small village of six hundred inhabitants in the department of Le Lot, in the South of France.

This blog is our common project as a family, half home and half studio, and was created to share our daily life, our passions, work and projects, from a rural environment and a new way of life. Books, poetry and literature, photography, parenting, gluten-free recipes (due to Sara's coeliac condition) and other topics about food and health, crafts and DIY projects, tourism in France, are some of the topics we cover on the blog. Far from any fashion, we write from amazement, curiosity, love for Nature, eagerness to discover and share, to communicate with the world we live in.

Our blog:

- Rural life: everyday life in the countryside, around the forest, the orchard and the garden.

- Gluten-free recipes: some of the gluten-free recipes we cook at home and articles related to coeliac condition, health and wellbeing.

- Tourism in France: postcards and landscapes of Cazals, the Lot and other regions in the South and the rest of France, including kid-friendly places, restaurants, bars and gluten-free options, and giving priority to Nature over the big city. Sometimes, by proposing tourist guides.

- Books: books we are reading. This is not a literary review section, we share books that we have enjoyed for the pure love of Literature, Photography, Art, Crafts or Nature.

- Inspiration: articles and interviews with people we admire, about projects that excite us.

- DIY: tutorials or blog posts about handmade projects and simple activities to create with or for children.

- Parenting: posts about parenting.

- Projects: about our digital creations and craft, literary and photography projects.

- We love: about projects and products that we have tried, that we like, that we support.