• 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

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

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

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

The pool -full of water- but without deckchair:
 

The pool with deckchairs for a whole rest:
 

If you want more details on the gites and the pool, let us know:

• by mail: contact@horizons-vendeens.fr

• by phone: 00 33 (0)6 23 00 13 67

Our choice for tiles in the gite: to keep the old style. The first idea was to have terracotta, because of the colour, red graduation which blends well with the stone walls and more particularly better than a white or beige tile. But for a pratical matter, as well as for me -owner of the gites- as for you -tourists on holiday-, a tile should be easy to clean and should not be a constraint. So, the chosen tile looks like terracota for its warm colour but a tile for its easy cleaning.

Moreover, the choice of this tile was above all for the living room -which takes up more than the half of the gite- but in order to avoid to have several tiles -materials and colour- in the other rooms, we have prefered to get the same quality in all rooms of the gite. In your next visits in les Horizons vendéens, let us kow your comments and if our choice was judicious.

Living room, lounge side of the gite:

Living room with the quiet spot:

Living room with the dining room:

Kitchen:

Bathroom of the gite:

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

• by mail: contact@horizons-vendeens.fr

• by phone: 00 33 (6) 23 00 13 67

• tiles on the floor are almost finished in the gite 2 “la gentilhommière”, where only remain any seals to do.

• works in the pool, with the white strengthened covering and the beginning of the water filling.

Today, I prefer showing you the pool… the next post will relate you the tiles of the gite.

So if you come into the pool space by the door -oly reserved for the gite 1 “l’hosterie”- you can see hereafter this:

So if you come into the pool space by the door -oly reserved for the gite 2 “la gentilhommière”- you will see this:

Please wait once week more before diving in the pool, just on one hand, to have the pool entirely filled with water and on the other hand, to warm water.

For further details on the gites and the interior pool, let us know:

• either by mail: contact@horizons-vendeens.fr

• or by phone: 00 33 (6) 23 00 13 67

In order to secure the mezzanine, we needed getting a banister, and to keep the character of this gite, we should appeal a craftsman working with the wrought iron. Indeed, a banister made of another material could alter the character of the house. Moreover, the wrought iron has the advantage of not warping in time and of being thougher, compared with wood for example.

The chosen company is l’ACMIF; with this following link (http://acmif.com/), you can see its abilities, skills and works.

Before the banister will be in the gite, you can find below a sketch:

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

• contact@horizons-vendeens.fr

• or by phone: 00 33 (6) 23 00 13 67

The front façade of the gite “La gentilhommière:

The gable end wall of the gite:

For further details about the gites and the interior and common pool, let us know your requirements:

• by email: contact@horizons-vendeens.fr

• by phone: 00 33 (6) 23 00 13 67

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