Maison Roz

Maison Roz sits above the Aven, between the small town of Pont-Aven and some of the prettiest beaches in southern Finistère, in Brittany. It's a place that runs on tides: boats moving on the water below, long walks on the coastal path, the same soft light that once drew a whole school of painters to Pont-Aven. Rennes is about two hours by car, Nantes a little more, and Paris just three hours by train to Quimperlé, thirty minutes away.

The house has belonged to the Decaux family for five generations, and it was rebuilt by two of them, Elodie Dumas and Augustin Decaux, a married couple who are also architects and run their own studio, Wunder. It's a personal project as much as a professional one, a chance to hold onto the family's memories here while making the house properly their own. The rooms are open and easy: a kitchen that flows into the main living space, a small sitting room by the fire, hotel-quality bedding throughout. Outside there's a big sun-soaked terrace looking over the Aven, an indoor pool with a counter-current for swimming laps, and a sauna. Five bedrooms sit in the main house, one set aside for children, and a sixth bedroom is in its own separate cabin, sleeping ten adults and two children in total. The estate runs to three hectares of woods, with direct access to the water and the GR34 coastal path.