At the water's edge · One bedroom
The building
At the end of the paved path, facing fifteen metres of water, a small pink gabled house. Downstairs is the big living room — open kitchen, long farmhouse table, benches running under the windows. This is where everyone always ends up : the breakfasts that run on, the wet afternoons, the dinners for twelve. Above it, a single bedroom on the mezzanine.
The living room
A table
for twelve.
The living room
One large room under the rafters, pink walls and panelling, with the mezzanine looking down into it. The farmhouse table seats all twelve at once — nobody gets put at the side table. Benches run beneath the windows, the shelves overflow with green china, and the French windows open level onto the terrace and the pool.
This is the common room of the house: kitchen, dining room and sitting room at once, and the only one with the pool always in view.
Bedroom 6 · Mezzanine · 15 m²
La Chambre
du Pool House.
La Chambre du Pool House
The oddest room in the house, and the most fought over. A mezzanine open to the big living room, under the sloping timber, with the view dropping away to the water. Down the ladder, across the terrace, and you're in — the only bedroom that puts you in the pool in fifteen seconds.
The ladder and the open side onto the living room are worth remembering when you hand out the bedrooms: this is not the one for anyone who gets up in the night, nor for young children.
The other five
One bedroom here, five in the timber-framed Normandy house across the garden. The house is let whole, up to twelve people — never a single room on its own, never other guests.
