Horizons Vendeens

Yesterday, a representative of “Gîtes de France” from Vendée came and check the both gites and the interior pool in the Horizons vendéens in Pouzauges. The target of this “visit” was to control:

• the compliance of the gites, the pool and their environment with their quality criteria,
• the respect for the plans before works and now,
• the quality of materials chosen for the restoration,
• the quality of furniture and household appliances for the comfort of tourists.

The goal of this meeting was also to enter the gites and the interior pool for the quality label of ”Gîtes de France”. Papers will be sent soon and the contract with Gîtes de France will take effect straight away.

Yesterday, we received the 2 signs -1 for each gite- of the quality label logo

with the inscription to be put up underneath ”GITE RURAL”.

From the sigature of the contract, the gites from Horizons vendéens will appear on the website of the “Gîtes de France”.

After this visit for the entry for the quality label “Gîtes de France“, a second one will be scheduled in order to have the classification of each gite, with at least 3 earth of wheat…

Now with the quality label “Gîtes de France“, we should to make our website available soon…

Otherwise, for further details and bookings for your next holidays in our gites with interior pool, do not hesitate to contact us:

• by mail: contact@horizons-vendeens.fr
• by phone : 00 33 (0)6 23 00 13 67

In order to reassure the tourists-to-be -those who have already booked and those who have not ye in the gites of Horizons vendéens, I show you round rooms, which have been furnished this weekend in the gite “la Gentilhommière”.

When you come into the gite, hereafter the living room with

its ”dining room”

its “lounge”

As piece of information, the living room -including the dining room, the lounge and the quiet spot- is more than half of the gite.

Then, let us go to the bedrooms:

Bedroom with twin beds:

Bedroom with the king-size bed:

It remains furniture to put in the kitchen and photos of this room to take…

Lastly, the bedroom of the gite has been removed since the publication of  the post wall tiles on the gite 2, without the washing machine. But a photo with this machine is not really necessary.

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

• by mail: contact@horizons-vendeens.fr
• by phone : 00 33 (0)6 23 00 13 67

After having shown bedrooms in the gite 1, only with the bed in wrought iron, hereafter ca you find photos od beds made, made as when you come this summer for your holidays.

Bedroom 2 with the twin beds:

Bedroom 3 with its king size bed:

For the 1st bedroom, on the ground floor, it will be finished this weekend; indeed, craftspeole do not need to go there and this room does not use anymore as place for the furniture of the other rooms.

For any further details on the gites and the pool, do not hesitate to contact us:

• by mail: contact@horizons-vendeens.fr
• by phone : 00 33 (0)6 23 00 13 67

Let’s disclose the Horizons vendéens outside, just in front of the gites and the pool, just before sowing the lawn and preparing the parkings for cars -near the entry:

Photos are taken from the gite 2 -”la Gentilhommière”- towards pool, then towards and from the gite 1 -”l’Hosterie”-, the the entry of the area towards the gite 2.

For any further details about the gites and the pool, please let us know:

• by mail: contact@horizons-vendeens.fr

• by phone: 00 33 (0)6 23 00 13 67

In order to distinguish the gites in the Horizons vendéens, instead of saying gite 1 and gite 2, we had to customize them. Since the beginning of works, we have tried to find indications and details, which could have helped us to describe at best these 2 gites, a difficult step but an important one!

A lead was a book -that a friend of us helped us to find- “l’histoire des maisons nobles de Pouzauges“, -”History of the noble houses, located in Pouzauges- which was written by Yves Dopsent, according the archives of Clément Blandin. Although this book was very interesting, it describes Puy Papin – hamlet, where are located our gites- only for the listed edifice on the other side of the road; indeed, before the road has been created, our buildings used as outbuildings of this “Logis” from Puy Papin. Consequently, no well-known personality was able to live there, apart from servants working for the lords of the Castle, then of the “Logis du Puy Papin” and their animals, or at least no precise detail has been given for the “activity” and ”function” of these buildings, that will be our gites. So, these gites will not be named after their former owners.

As far the gite 1 is concerned, this stone building -which has been inhabited untill July 2007 and so  partially restored- gives us a feeling of place to swap and reception, and reminds us of an inn. With that in mind, the chosen name is l’hosterie, old French word, which is synonymous with inn.

For the gite 2, this stone building has been neglected for years and was more particularly in ruins, so it has a secret side, even mysterious one. It was mainly used as a shelter for animals, some call it a sheepfold and others call it stable… As this function has nothing to do with the one of the gites, and as we have restored it into a residential use with the charming old stones, the nam of this gite will be as follows la gentilhommière: this old French word describes a pleasant and charmingly converted cottage, located in the country.

 For further details about these gites-to-be -l’hosterie & la gentilhommière- and about the interior common pool, do not hesite to contact us:

• contact@horizons-vendeens.fr

• or by phone: 00 33 (6) 23 00 13 67

After bad weathers from last week and storms, doors and windows, which have been put in without too much delay and any worries in this gite 2, are shown below with photos and are complementary to posts “doors/windows-to-be in the gite 2” and “doors/windows-to-be in the gite 2, with further details…”

Details of these from the gite, as far as the windows/doors in wood & alu are concerned:

Front façade of the gite 2:
 

Front door of the gite:
 
 

French window in the living room of the gite:
 
 
 

Window in bedrooms of the gite
 

The large picture window on the gable end of the gite 2 is not finished yet for the stoneworkers because of bad weather of last week, but you will have soon photos of it.

As described at the beginning of this webblog, there is only odd jobs to schedule in this gite 1. After having moved partitions with placos, we have started converting bathrooms and painting walls in bedrooms and living room.

Bedrooms of the gite 1 have been paint in yellow but photos are not clear enough to give you the precise shade of each of them and because these rooms are still “empty”. With furnitures it will give a better view…

Nevertheless, you can find below photos taken in the lounge and mezzanine.

This post about windows & doors in the swimming pool should be read after ”Wood framework in front of the swimming pool“ and “Wood framework in front of the pool, step 3...”.

Front façade of the swimming pool

Back façade of the swimming pool

Doors seen inside from the pool

Overview with swimming pool and the both gites – front side coming from Montournais

Overview with swimming pool and the both gites -back side, coming from Pouzauges

Now this space for the swimming pool is completely closed, works of insulation, placo and tiles, interior stone face-lift, of hanging ceiling below swimming pool, electricity and of plumbing, at last de finishing touches for the swimming pool, can start…