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

In the last post, we said that the gite has been almost ready for you, tourists. So after having stuck the wall tiles and made seals, we can show you now some photos from the bathroom. Toilets have the same wall tiles.

Let’s go and see in the Horizons vendéens inside this gite:

From the door towards the shower:

From the shower towards the 2 sinks:

From the 2 sinks towards the door:

If you need further detailsabout 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 the connection of the gite with lelectricity, the insulation on the roof timber, insulation and covering with wood panelling was to be done in the ceiling of the living room of the gite “La Gentilhommière”.

Hereafter, you can see photos of the white ceiling:

In this gite, it remains to test the heating floor with the heat pump, to connect phone, to make beds, to furnish kitchen and living room and to take photos in order to encourage you to come and take holidays in our gites in Horizons vendéens.

For further details, 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

After months of restoration for the gites and creation for the pool, we need to show you now any photos of the gites and the pool, letting you come and have some holidays in a quiet space in the gites in the “Horizons vendéens”. Even if the website has not been available yet, phone calls or mails have already confirmed us confirmation of tourists for this summer, and why not thinking of your visit in Pouzauges???

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

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