Horizons Vendeens

Little by little, gites start taking shape! Before long, restoration works will come to a close, craftspeople make way for tourists…

Below, photos show you the screed in the gite 2, which has covered the heating floor and that has being dried since 2 weeks. One week more, the tiles will be put down.

In the gite 1, photos are more scarce but after these finishing touches, see below the ground floor of this gite, more particularly the mezzanine with its quiet spot -on the left, while coming up the stairs- and its space for children -on the right, above the kitchen. Now we should furnish this place but above all, secure it with a banister made of wrought iron.

For further details about gite and pool, do not hesitate to contact us either by mail contact@horizons-vendeens.fr or by phone -00 33 (0)6 23 00 13 67 

Soon, in the 1st gite, photos will show you the kitchen, that will be ended in the following days…

For those, who have just discovered this webblog of  Horizons vendéens today, this webblog only concerns the restoration works from old stone buildings into gite and the pool, and the website with the same address name -for the marketing of the gites- will be soon available.

Details: Going to pool will not be of extra costs and is included in the price on whatever the season may be. You will take advantage of this pool when you want, to respect tourists in the “neighbouring” gite.

Prices are net of tax; no tax for the town of Pouzauges will be requested.

Tariffs are calculated for a week, from Saturday to the next Saturday. For dates of various arrivals or/and departures, let us know with this email -contact@horizons-vendeens.fr- so that we could check our availabilities and possibilities in order to answer favourably to your requests.

And are inclusive in the price:

1. Sheets -all beds will be made at your arrival in gites on holidays,

2. Necessities for babies -on request,

3. Bed linen and towels -for hygiene reasons, we do not provide bath sheets for the swimming pool and/or for external activities to gites, like sea…-,

4. Cleaning materials like washing powder for dishwasher, cleaning products…

5. Internet hit,

6. A phone -in each gite- at your disposal will be only used for for emergency cases, but at your arrival into gites, a phone number will be given to you so that you are able to be reached during your holidays.

For further details about gites and the pool, do not hesitate to contact us with:

•  Phone: 00 33 (0)6.23.00.13.67

•  contact@horizons-vendeens.fr.

As already noticed in the previous posts, the webblog ”Horizons vendéens” should be replaced progressively with the website, in order to market the gite 1 accomodated for 6 persons, the gite 2 for 4 persons and the common and interior pool.

At the end of the restoration works, representatives of Gîtes de France from Vendée will check the compliance of the criteria of getting this quality label of Gîtes de France with the completed works, then they classify the gites and the pool with at least 3 ears of wheet -minimum classification in order to get departemental subsidies which will be granted to us at the end of the restoration works. Now just wait and see the authentication…

From now on, I give you some ”concrete” photos, or failing these the architect’s plans so that you will be able to have an idea of the whole stone buildigs, i.e. the both gites with the common pool, located between the 2 lodgings.

Then, in order to have the area of each gite, you can find below plans:

Gite 1

on the ground:
  upstairs:

Gite 2:

The swimming pool:
 

At last, even if the webblog has no commercial target but more a descriptive one concering the restoration works from old stone buildings into gite and the pool, I take the liberty of disclosing the tariffs of each gite. Going to pool will not be of extra costs and is included in the price on whatever the season may be. You will take advantage of this pool when you want, to respect tourists in the “neighbouring” gite.

Prices are net of tax; no tax for the town of Pouzauges will be requested.

Tariffs are calculated for a week, from Saturday to the next Saturday. For dates of various arrivals or/and departures, let us know with this email -contact@horizons-vendeens.fr- so that we could check our availabilities and possibilities in order to answer favourably to your requests.

And are inclusive in the price:

1. Sheets -all beds will be made at your arrival in gites on holidays,

2. Necessities for babies -on request,

3. Bed linen and towels -for hygiene reasons, we do not provide bath sheets for the swimming pool and/or for external activities to gites, like sea…-,

4. Cleaning materials like washing powder for dishwasher, cleaning products…

5. Internet hit,

6. A phone -in each gite- at your disposal will be only used for for emergency cases, but at your arrival into gites, a phone number will be given to you so that you are able to be reached during your holidays.

For further details about gites and the pool, do not hesitate to contact us with: contact@horizons-vendeens.fr.

After silence of one week in the posts for the “Horizons vendéens“, you can find below the summary of the works, which still go on!

• Front stone wall-to-be of the gite 2

As already explained in the previous posts, the wall -”built with breeze blocks-which is located on the front façade of the gite 2, should be covered with stones. Hereafter, the following steps since last November:

After having laid the ”last” stones and the wood lintels on this wall of this gite, stoneworkers will make way for the workers for the stone face-lifting of this façade. Then, our website should be available on Internet…

• Screed above the tiles in the gite 2

No photo can be available: indeed, the liquid screed was poured last Wednesday, so we should not walk on it for the moment and we should also avoid draughts in this gite because of risk of cracks inside the screed. Now wait and see for some weeks before the tiles can be seen on the floor…

• Tiles in the pool area

All around the pool, in the changing room and also for the machines space, a “standard” screed has been poured and the tiler begins his work next week. Hereafter, photos of the screed:

• Waste water from the gite 1 and from the gite 2

The waste water for the both gites and the changing room of the pool have been well connected to the town services. No photo should be needed to understand this part of work.

• Earthworks begin in the back side of the gites and the pool

The earthworker ,as he was around the gites and the pool, began last week to level this surroundings, more precisely in the back side of the gites and the pool.

• Ceilings in the gite 1

We have fallen the ceilings in rooms like bathrooms and toilets, but also in the living room and kitchen of the gite 1 so that all ceilings are the same and more precisely light. Indeed, we have choosen to lay white panellings so that all rooms should be bright at the most.

For further details about Horizons vendéens -gites & swimming pool- let us know by the following link: contact@horizons-vendeens.fr.

Works in the gite 2 are going on with the plumber , with the heating floor…

Entrance hall of the gite:

Living room of the gite -in the quiet spot:

Living room of the gite:

Kitchen of the gite:

Corridor -view from bedrooms towards living room of the gite:

Bedrooms of the gite:

If you want more details about the gites and the pool, let us know with contact@horizons-vendeens.fr.

After cleaning out stones on 2 walls in the gite 2, and as explained in the post Walls inside the gite 2, we ought to strenghten  the front wall of this gite -weakened- with a “grey coating”, then in order to avoid loosing too much place, we have choosen to get a coating instead of having placo with  a finishing touch of paintwork , so the colour will be the same as the coating on the other walls of the living room.

Hereafter photos showing this finishing touch in this gite:

In order to have a more precise idea of the living room of this gite, any complementary photos:

For further information about Horizons vendéens -gites & swimming pool- let us know by the following link: contact@horizons-vendeens.fr.

In this gite, persons in charge of placo should create and demarcate rooms:

Partition between the living room and bedrooms of the gite:

Evolution of partitions for the bedrooms of the gite:

View from the living room towards bedrooms -on the left- and kitchen -on the right-
then in the background bathroom of the gite:

From bedrooms/bathroom towards kitchen and living room of the gite:
-on opposite view-  

Do not hesitate to contact us if you need more exhaustive details about gites of Horizons vendéens and their common swimming pool with this following link contact@horizons-vendeens.fr.

As far as the swimming pool is concerned, works are going on with the placo, which demarcate these 2 spaces, namely space for changing room -toiletd and shower- and one for the machines.

Hereafter different photos showing the development step by step:

On one hand, the changing room              on the other hand, “room” for machines  

Lastly, after technical information with placo, it should be good to see this following photo, taken recently towards the sight, when you go out the swimming pool from back of the stone buildings:

Do not hesitate to contact us if you need more exhaustive details about the gites and the swimming pool, contact@horizons-vendeens.fr.