Horizons Vendeens

After fierce negotiations, which led to nothing and more particularly to vain hopes, we had to comply with the requirements of the ABF -Architect of the Bâtiments de France- in Vendée in order to register in the town council of Pouzauges, our planning permission for the swimming pool and  gites of “Horizons vendéens”, so that all changes could be acepted by the administration, and more especially by “Bâtiments de France”.

Plans of gites and the interior swimming pool described in the post “project plans for gites in Pouzauges” have been altered a little.

Below, you can find direct links for the final plans of each gite with the interior swimming pool, carried out by Mr. Christophe Bertrand, aBCd‘architecture agency:

• Front façade of both gites with the swimming pool

• Back façade of the whole building

• For GITE 1:
  - on the ground
  - upstairs
  - front façade
  - back façade
• For GITE 2:
  - on the ground
  - front façade
  - back façade
• For the SWIMMING POOL:
  - on the ground
  - front façade
  - back façade
• A plan including the landscaped drawings from Mr. Delacroix

In the hills of bocage in Pouzauges and close to Puy du Fou, you will be welcomed in this lovely gite from May 2008.

With 93 m² in area, the gite 2, which has been neglected and in ruins until July 2007, will propose -after all changes and restoration works- a single-storey lodging:

• an entrance hall, a living room of 42m², a quiet spot for reading/ lounge, a kitchen, a bedroom of 13m² with a king size double bed -160*200-, a 2nd bedroom of 13m² with 2 single beds, a bathroom with a shower and bath, a separated toilet.

Our aim:

To propose a gite with 2 quality bedrooms with swimming pool -in common with the adjoining gite.
Indeed, it can officially sleep 4 persons, but occasionally, can sleep up to 6 persons because there is 1 sofa bed in the quiet spot for reading.

In the hills of bocage in Pouzauges and close to Puy du Fou, you will be welcomed in this lovely gite from May 2008.

With around 180 m² in area, the gite 1, which has been an inhabited house until July 2007, will  propose after all changes and restoration works:

• on the ground: an entrance hall, a living room, a kitchen, a lounge with view of the mezzanine, a spacious bedroom of 19m² with a king size double bed -160*200-, a bathroom with a shower and bath, a separated toilet

• upstairs: a mezzanine a quiet spot for reading/ lounge and spot for kids -games, for example-, which leads to 2 bedrooms -12m² with a king size double bed of 160*200 & 16m² with 2 single beds- and also a bathroom with shower, and separated toilet.

In this gite, a billiard table will fill the evenings of the tourists.

Our aim:

To propose a gite with 3 quality bedrooms with swimming pool -in common with the adjoining gite.
Indeed, it can officially sleep 6 persons, but occasionally, can sleep up to 10 persons because there are 2 sofa beds in the lounge.

In order to understand better the follow-up of restoration from these stone buildings and with the aid of photos “Detailed photos of gites before restoration“, I will present below plans of the gites-to-be and interior swimming pool:

- GITE 1 on the ground

- GITE 1 upstairs

- GITE 2 & SWIMMING POOL

- Initial plan

All plans were carried out by Mr. Christophe Bertrand, aBCd‘architecture agency.

As the photos of the gites-to-be -shown in the post “Pictures of gites before restoration“- was not detailed enough, it is necessary to give you further details from the place -in ruins or not- so that you could note better the changes during restoration and to imagine the gites-to-be and the swimming pool .

• Gite 1
  • Front view
  • Back view
  • Inside
• Gite 2
  • Front view
  • Back view
  • Inside
• Swimming pool
  • Front view
  • Back view
  • Inside
• The Logis du Puy Papin, listed by Bâtiments de France

Below, you can uncover our project for gites with direct links to have the architect plan.

Which is the best method of getting a concrete idea of this project? If you want to see pictures of gites before restoration, this can give you a better understanding, it is up to you to choose! and let me know:

• Plans on the ground for both gites and the common swimming pool between the 2 lodgings.
• Façades -front and back of the 2 gites
• Landscaped drawings, thought up by Arnauld Delacroix

When gites will be completely restored and opened for tourists, services -including in the price and whatever the season may be- will be proposed to tourists.

These services are the results of questioning and summary of requirements needed by holidaymakers: Read the rest of this entry »

For us, the first step with a such project of the stone-buildings restoration to create gites was to “be” on the Internet in order to make our name. As we will not have concrete photos before the end of restoration site -for a high-performance website- we have been advised to comment the unfolding of this project on a blog. The result is here if you can read this post today… during the restoration works in Pouzauges, the website will be created and should appear around April 2008, date to be confirmed as well as the official opening of gites. A direct link will be available on this blog as soon as the website “Horizons vendéens” opens.

In the meantime, in order to make our name among the gites, we should obviously belong to tourism professionals and show our reliability and high quality for our gites: Read the rest of this entry »