A gorgeous house in the heart of a French village in Provence

hello another home tour video i have taken you to Province for this video in the natural park of the Montvant where Valérieful building a very charming guest room she has an incredible eye for style and decors i can show you this beautiful guest [Music] welcome to the house to meet you pleasure and I hope you will appreciate the house thank you we will discover it with pleasure so it is a house it is a fairly old house eh it dates from 1870 and I bought it in 2019 it was not at all in this state well I imagine there was a lot of work to be done uh all that was done in a change of life I lived in Marseille a big city and I wanted to change my life and I looked for a house and I found this one or rather this one found me ah yes and there you go big crush a year of work I called on craftsmen it went very well they are craftsmen from the village I really like the dark wood like that it's walnut the locks had to be redone if you like when I visited the house it was really in its original state it wasn't as welcoming but there was still a good feeling and I really wanted to keep as much as possible of what it was and what I liked when I came back yes that's why in the rooms there are a lot of things a little bit a little bit wobbly a little bit broken but that's what I like there are five rooms in the house and here I 'm going to show you the smallest of them which is a little bit special you'll see it was probably the maid's room exactly it was the little maid's room which is now called Elisabeth's little room it's one of my favorites because it's very small it's very comfortable it's pretty with the arched window like that yeah the wallpaper from Maison Sauvage which is a brand that I love you'll see there are a lot of reclaimed things in the house there for example here it's a flowerpot that I simply drilled salvaged from the headboard of one of the beds that was in the house the owners left me a lot of furniture a lot of things the same I will show you in the others in the other rooms so this little bedroom was the only one that had its own bathroom yes when you bought when I bought so there it was of course necessary to renovate it and put everything back in which was not easy so the tiling uh it is recent but imitation old and what is uh funny is that when the tiler laid it took the tiles out of the boxes all broken he said "But what is this tiling it is all broken." and the fabulous period ones yeah I love it so in fact you will notice there are two different periods because the house has evolved over the years and so these are really the period tomatoes and then they redid the corridor with slightly more recent floor tiles but which still date from the 50s [Music] lavender everywhere because we are in the land of lavender in the land of lavender we are really in the land of true lavender since in Saut we are on the plateau of Saut plateau of Albion and this is where we grow true lavender which needs to be grown at altitude and here we are at 700 m and there you really have the real lavender this is the one used by perfumers so there we arrive in a room which is much bigger which is called Camille and Gabin I love old first names so all the rooms don't have numbers but old first names yeah and as there it is a double room with two rooms Camille and Gabin yeah and so these are first names chosen at random or So there are first names that I chose at random and there are some that correspond to my more personal life ellisabeth that we saw earlier she is my best friend and I will tell you for other rooms so here we are on a so-called family room I really like the still life paintings and especially flowers there is not much hanging on the wall that is what I want all the customers like that can make the space their own this piece of furniture was hidden under a big mess in the attic it was all white so I completely scraped it thinking that behind I was going to maybe repaint it and finally I kept it like that because it has a simply magnificent color it is simple and there is not much but it is still very warm welcoming that is it and there the same you are on a fireplace plate you should know that in all the rooms there was a fireplace I was able to keep some like this one and the plate but in the other room that we're going to see next door I really had to remove it so here we are no longer in the master bedroom the same all in simplicity the color there which is on the wall is a bit of a ditlin color that I use almost everywhere in the house basic color and then after that with tones more in the in the glass there again a lot of recycling this chair that I bought in a village store which is which is really very very nice all the linen of the house is there everything is done here at home eh the washing the ironing I'll show you the bathroom h so in fact formerly finally when I bought the house it was the bathroom of the house so there you have the large bathroom the legs of the sinks it was a table that was in the house but the top was very damaged I wanted to keep the legs that I found very nice it's an old board that you had found an old board absolutely eh quite simply we added the coat racks and then above you have the small light fixture that was in the kitchen when I bought it, here I recovered and reassembled this mirror, it was in the house like other mirrors that we will see a little later, uh, I find it magnificent, I didn't really know how to put it and then there it is, it found its place here and there I think it is, it's not bad where it is so here I'll take you to Léo's room which is my son's first name ah so in fact here it was the old music room when I bought the house there were two pianos in this room I like the rugs so they are Bulgarian rugs I bought it in Avignon at a flea market a big flea market that has every month and I really fell in love with this rug and I think it found its place well in this room at first I wanted to do something very dark really this glass there but in the whole room and then I backed off because I said to myself it could still scare my clients so I just painted this wall llama it was in the in the house it was in the attic so I also think that it found its place well I really wanted to keep a little of the history of the house this door well of course it was cleaned but it is really in the state in which I found it and I really wanted to keep it like that and if you open it I also kept the wallpaper which was in the whole room and which was stuck on the door when I started the work the first thing we did was remove all the tapestries because there was tapestry everywhere and they were very pretty and above all it is that removing the tapestry we saw uh the past of the house and all the eras of tapestry I would have so much liked to keep them on the walls but it was impossible the walls were too damaged it was too complicated the bathroom was of course created from scratch it is the same light fixtures no of Yeah exactly the cachepaux were pot covers the cache-p you just have to make holes in them and you make one and then it allows you to pep it up a bit and avoid that look a bit too old too classic this suspension I really love it and it was in a room it was full of grease you couldn't see it at all and when I started to clean it I said to myself "But it's magnificent it's magnificent." The centerpiece of this bathroom is still the mirror, this mirror was in the house above a fireplace and likewise I found it really magnificent so it was enough to simply turn it over and clean it a little, it is really in good condition this chair is part of a pair that I bought on Le Boncoin which is still a really interesting resource for those who like second-hand goods and recycling and there too I think it has a good place, it has its place, many customers would like to leave with it but no it is not it is not possible it is not possible I really like the velvet this green it is these flowers I bought these chairs at the Saut garage sale and the gentleman was selling six of them they were raw you could see all the welds and I hesitated to buy them I thought strange and then after I said to myself oh by repainting them it should do it and that is what I did then this chandelier I absolutely wanted it it is a chandelier from Floating House they make really beautiful things so it's from Laon lots of old books in the house and I was really lucky that the previous owners left them to me we visit your room so it's Adelle's room so there you see we are on colors a little more a little more neutral white with a tint of a tint of blue the decoration above the fireplace we think it's a it was the outline of a clock the wardrobe was in the house it I decided to repaint it I always hesitate I think a lot before repainting furniture but there it was too complicated for the to renovate the homemade light fixture with a lampshade from Muskinen it's made in Nepal and he works with felt and we will find it in the shop I really like what they do so the library so it was filled with books and I kept the key and on this key which is an old key there is a small key ring on which is written the cupboard of good mother there so it was the cupboard of good mother I know not who was good mom but in any case it was her cupboard and so I repainted it of course it was made of wood and inside only objects that were in the that were in the house and so this little cupboard which is very interesting so there is a tapestry that I have that I put up myself and inside yeah it had already been when I bought it had already been uh covered with newspapers and I left it like that because I thought it was really good there were a few holes so it was necessary to tinker and I did it with magazines that I found in the attic I have all the copies of mode pratique from 1895 to 1960 and it was therefore the women's magazine of the time I will show you the bathroom that you know well you know yes it was my room so here there was a very small bathroom and to enlarge it and allow it to be fitted out with the necessary comfort I took from the living room this is one of the practical fashion covers that I was telling you about earlier yeah so what I like is turning the frames over and seeing what 's behind them because in fact you often find little wonders and I think that's really very very beautiful [Music] [Music] [Music] [ Music] we go up we go up I'll take you to the Léon and Marcel suite so we arrive in the Léon and Marcel suite Léon and Marcel were the first names of my grandparents that I loved very much so here again we are in a suite with two bedrooms a bathroom and a dressing room it's the only room with the view and what a view once again the linen linen so for the most part it's the Passion for Linon brand in fact it's Dutch I checked yesterday yeah same put word simplicity of the small tables of [Music] chevooké with old cement tiles placed on them which were in the house it means that in the past there had this tiling somewhere the bathroom so it wasn't at all a bathroom which was a kind of workshop in which in the middle stood this workbench and so the workbench found its place the place here anyway it's very difficult to move them especially since here we are at the attic level so very small staircase uh so it stayed there and the plumber did a very nice installation as I asked him and I'm really pleased with it it pleases it pleases a lot and always one of the mirrors which was always on one of the fireplaces in the house I wanted to twist with a little more contemporary lighting the hidden room you the hidden room the little door it makes Ah yeah it's a dressing room it's the dressing room of the bedroom the second bedroom of the Léon Marcel suite so it's more friends or a family with children and the children are here and they are rather happy the small church pews the same find the flea market of saut a piece of furniture that I found at the yellow house which is a decoration flea market store in the village very pretty it's a craftsman who does this is a mixture of plaster and papier- mâché we arrive at the living room the living room boutique so it's the place where my clients like to come and sit during the day or at the end of the day read have a little drink and enjoy life enjoy life enjoy life too so it's a boutique too my clients have the possibility to buy a little bit of what they liked in the in their room or in the house you see we find products from Musquen there is a little bit of second-hand goods we find the soaps which are also in the in the rooms the soaps which are made in saut so here the lavender honey which is made in the small village next door by the Bonet family very very good products which are served in the morning at breakfast so the centerpiece of this of this room is still this bed which I find magnificent it was covered with an orange fleece fabric which was difficult to recover and so suddenly well I ripped everything out to strip it down and I left it as it was that it arrives in the dining room so that's where I serve breakfast during the winter once summer has settled I serve breakfast downstairs on the terrace under the arbor so that my clients the real Provençal life the real Provençal life my clients love the portrait it's the former owners who left it to me it's the person who bought the house in 1870 his name is Mr. Carbonel and then through marriages the family was called Léonard and so I bought it from the Léonard family ah and that's why the house is called Maison Léonard the little alcove there there are pieces from a ceramist that I love who works with all shapes who also makes vases there's one a little below who makes dried flowers it's atelier 16 ellisabeth au clair I really like what she does so we arrive and well at the garden level there we are at end of the village eh at 10.5 m it's the It's the cliff so you have to imagine under the vine arbor and this brings us to the end of this home tour video thank you so much Valéri for opening your beautiful chambre d'eau to us this beautiful house I think you've done such an amazing job keeping its original charm but adding more modern touches and giving it lots of personality if you want to visit Valé and this region and stay at her chambre d'inktion box as always I thank you so much for watching and I will see you again in the next