Le Bout de la Cave

Perched at the edge of a forgotten hamlet, Le Bout de la Cave is a study in restraint and renewal. What was once a crumbling agricultural outbuilding has been reimagined as a dwelling of stillness and light, its language reduced to the essential where stone, lime and timber speak without decoration.

Every gesture within the project honours the building’s original structure. Walls retain their imperfections, thresholds are rebuilt in solid oak, and light is guided through deep reveals that hold both shadow and air. The intervention is contemporary but deferential, a series of insertions that belong as much to the place as to the present moment.

This is architecture as atmosphere rather than statement, a place for slow living, for quiet work, for noticing the changing light across the day. The architecture does not announce itself, it simply allows the old house to breathe again.

Le bout de la cave