Home depot, Leroy style

It is the last day with the rental car so we are going to use it for home improvement projects.

We visited the local garbage transfer station twice and deposited old drywall and other waste products created from an earlier kitchen rehab project.

We then went to a local home improvement store called Leroy Merlin. Not surprisingly, the store contained an art exhibit on the first floor. What did surprise me is that if you buy something, you can get a rebate on a portion of the vat tax if you pay someone to actually perform the work. So you buy the material or goods at the store, let's say a ceiling fan, and then have an electrician install the fan, you can request a portion of the tax back. This seems contrary to the concept of do-it-yourself.

By the way, paint is horribly expensive here in France. It cost Nicole ~$92 for .6 gallons of paint.