Maison Ojigi
Chez
Emilie et Stéphane
In a former convent school between Brocéliande and Josselin, Émilie and Stéphane are reinventing the art of living in a tiny village. Three rooms, a tea room, a boutique: white and raw wood combine with the colors of India.
When, in the heart of inland Brittany, between the Forest of Brocéliande and Josselin, they came across this house, formerly a school run by nuns, the project to create a guest house was not clearly defined. Opportunity knocked, and the playground was too beautiful to pass up. Emilie and Stéphane converted the seven nuns' cells into three pretty bedrooms. They salvaged the wooden cladding and turned it into headboards; they kept the original parquet flooring and used white as a common theme, adding touches of color here and there, such as antique Kantha quilts as curtains and an antique Jaipur rug. In the classrooms on the ground floor, they set up a tea room and a shop. The shop sells the jewelry and textile collections that Emilie designs and has manufactured in India. When the art of living is reinvented in a tiny village.
3 good reasons to go
- because Ojigi is the Japanese art of greeting, the art of saying, with respect, that giving is as important as receiving
- because the bridge between India and Brittany is obvious; see the Museum of the East India Company in Lorient
- because central Brittany is worth (re)discovering
3 bedrooms, from €82
To get there by train?Nearest TGV station: Vannes (approximately 28 miles)
Maison Ojigi
2, rue de l'Audience, 56120 Trégranteur (Guégon)
Morbihan, Bretagne, France
