Horizons Vendeens

As explained in the post “Wood framework in front of the swimming pool“, this new wood space -located in front of the swimming pool- request several craftspeople and is divided into different steps.

After the step “wook framework”, then “terrace and watertightness”, comes the covering with wood panelling.

This wood covering in front of the swimming pool show the advantages of this common space for the both gites with the swimming pool and demarcates well each gite on each side of the swimming pool. Do not hesitate to be curious and come to these gites and swimming pool in Pouzauges.

For those who do not remember the beginning of works in the interior pool of both gites, do not hesitate to have a look on the post “An interior swimming pool, why not?” then on ”Works on the swimming pool start“.

Hereafter photos on the swimming pool step by step, with curbs and gutters:

More details on the curbs and stairs of the swimming pool for these 2 gites.

It remains from now on, no more time before being able to make of small dive in this swimminig pool, which will be probably much before the end of restoration works and openings of the 2 gites, to be confirmed… or why no coming and visiting Pouzauges!

Have just a lok on these few photos on the panorama so that you can imagine everything, before going and visinting gites in Pouzauges :

Panorama en Summer:

Panorama in Autumn:

Panorama in Winter:

For photos of the panorama during Spring around Pouzauges, be the best competitor in taking photos around the gites, and send me your masterpieces.

Next step: your photos…

For this project of restoration from old stone buildings into gites and interior swimming pool in Pouzauges, we needed help from several trades for all these restoration works, more particularly on the part in ruins.

For those who are dreaming launching a such project of gites or who need a craftsman for various reasons, you can find above our partners’ list, that we have chosen so that this project of restoration of gites in Pouzauges will be successful:

Earthworks: ETA CHARRIER, St Michel Mont Mercure

Stoneworks/Roofing: EURL TESSIER, Les Epesses

Stone face-lifting: Styl’façades, St Michel Mont Mercure

Doors/Windows in wood & alu: B.P.Ouverture, La Pommeraie sur Sèvre

Wood frameworks: SPV, Rochetrejoux

 Watertightness/Terrace roof on wood framework: SARL STI, La Roche/Yon

Electricity : SARL Mickaël BEAUPERIN, Cholet

Plumbing/Heat pump: ECO P.A.C, Trémentines

Tiles & Placo: B.Placo, La Pommeraie sur Sèvre

 Panelling: BARON-MOREAU SARL, Les Epesses

Hanging ceiling below swimming pool: DUFISOL, St Herblain

 Swimming-pool, with piscines Desjoyaux

• Landscaped drawings, thought up by Arnauld Delacroix, TALPA agency
• Plans, carried out by Christophe Bertrand, aBCd’architecture agency

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.

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 »