In the Oise, this retiree restored his farm using old materials and ancestral techniques

2023-11-05 06:53:52

Before moving to Villers-Saint-Barthélemy (Oise), Philippe Levieil went through different stages. At the beginning, he “made something new”, like everyone else: alone, he started building a “house made of concrete blocks and cement”. But this son of a farmer, who grew up on the farm, dreamed of rediscovering the “pleasure of living in an old building”. So, when the children left home, he decided to acquire an old building to restore. And he searched again and again. “I visited 42 before this one,” says the 66-year-old retiree. And there, I immediately fell under the spell. »