We're got everything done now that we wanted to and really pleased with the carpets. I knew the purple would be perfect. We escaped for most of the time they were doing them....wonderful lunch of catfish at Fisherman's in the sunshine and we dropped into a thrift store we hadn't been to this time and found this wonderful painting of what looks like Cassis to us....our favourite village in the south of France. So, a real find at $70. It fits better over the fireplace than my Port of Carqueiranne which was always a little small for that area. It is now snuggled up with my Paris (and San Francisco) things.
Some photos of Cassis...well, only one uploaded.