The house is tucked away on a charming paved street in the village. This road is one of the village’s most authentic streets and a former wash house still stands on it. The street links the upper area of Samois-sur-Seine to the village’s lower area by the River Seine. The building adjoins another one on one side. On the other side, it is edged with a path that snakes between houses. The house has a basement, a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor. It has elevations of exposed stonework with pointing and a plinth course of white roughcast. The dwelling is crowned with a gable roof of local tiles with a gabled dormer. The window surrounds are rendered and straight, filled with large-paned windows, some of which are fitted with folding metal shutters. The entrance door is glazed. The dwelling offers a total floor area of 105m². A flight of three stone steps leads up from the pavement to the entrance door.

The house

The ground floor
The wooden entrance door, glazed and fitted with ironwork, leads into a hallway with exposed beams and a floor of old terracotta square tiles. Straight ahead, this entrance hall connects to a spacious bedroom where wardrobes have been made on either side of an imposing fireplace painted black with a wooden mantelpiece. This fireplace features two cherubs painted on its corbels. The walls are lime-plastered. Oak strip flooring extends across the room. From the entrance hall, a wooden spiral staircase with a metal handrail leads upstairs. Another flight of stairs leads down to the basement. The hallway also connects to a shower room with a lavatory. It is decorated with brown artisan tiles with coppery glints.

The first floor
A kitchen lies up on the first floor. It has work surfaces and a double-size sink of river stone in front of a backsplash panel of tiles with coppery glints. It also has a fireplace painted in the same colour as the walls and a matching in-built cupboard. An opening in a partition wall brings in natural light and leads to a dining room, where a tall glazed crockery cabinet with a patina of time stands against a wall as a fine timber unit of furniture. This dining room stands out for its exposed ceiling beams and original terracotta floor tiles.

The second floor
Up on the second floor, there is a lounge that has been created in a former artist’s studio. A large glazed section in a wall bathes the room in natural light and offers a far-reaching view of the surrounding gardens and a forest. This lounge is remarkably spacious. Its ceiling is four metres up from the floor. Pinewood strip flooring extends across the room. There is an office on a mezzanine floor. An extra bedroom could easily be created on this mezzanine. Lastly, there is a small room that is currently used as a spare bedroom. It has a floor of old terracotta tiles veneered with a black resin. The room offers a vista of the village and the River Seine in the distance.

The basement
The basement has the same floor area as the ground floor. It houses a boiler room. It also has an entrance door that leads in from outside, so bicycles, canoes and paddleboards can easily be kept down here.