LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
In 2017, after a search of more than five years, we found this striking house in Salveredonde to start a small-scale B&B. Every cliché also applies to us. It was love at first sight. Within two hours of the first viewing, we signed the purchase contract! We knew immediately, this is the place. This is where we want to live, grow old together, enjoy doing odd jobs in the house and the garden, and enjoy the results. This is where we want to receive people and let them share in this happiness.
What we did not dare to expect is that here everything falls into place. Furniture and art, pieces we have had for thirty years, seem to be made for this house. As for us, from the start we too felt at home in the large and intimate quarters. That was then and it still is.
We often get the question: what do you do in the months when there are no guests? Making plans. The list of projects never ends. We keep on building this little paradise. Simply because we love doing it. For ourselves, but also to create an enchanting place for others to enjoy and feel at home.


Oh, hence the name!
I sold a house in Salveredonde, says the real estate agent. The mayor looks at him questioningly. As far as I know, there is no house for sale in Salveredonde. Yes, that big one at the beginning of the hamlet. Oh, le château!
The delivery man calls us to ask where exactly he needs to be. The first big house on your right, the one with the green-blue shutters. He knows right away. Oh, le château!
Where do you live?, asks the farmer we meet during a walk in the neighborhood. Over there, by that tall black pine. Oh, le château!
And so it happened, the name of the B&B became Oh, le château!

Cato
Quirky and a little shy. The little white adventurer runs through the meadow on her short paws, climbs high in trees or lounges in the shade of greenery.

Gerard
Gerard is a designer in heart and soul. As an architect he realizes buildings and as a cook the most delicious meals. The renovation of the house and the dishes on the table clearly carry his signature.

Miek
Miek had a career as a nurse. Caring and pampering are her first nature. Her delicious jams and granola, crispy sheets, heart warming laughter show for it.

Kim
Kim is a Jack of all trades with a background in the cultural sector. Ensures a warm welcome and a smile at breakfast. If she is not working in the garden, she is in the kitchen; patisserie is her latest passion.
THE EARLIER DAYS
We are not the first and we definitely will not be the last guardians of the castle. Generation after generation the house belonged to the same family. It functioned as a mansion of a rich farmer and later on as a summer estate to escape the heat of the city. We do not know yet all the historical details, but stories are promising. Once upon a time a very successful jockey lived here who kept his horses in the meadow. Two spinsters, sisters, are said to have produced silk at the property. Left behind and signed charcoal drawings suggest a family member was gifted with some artistic talent. Now, the drawings hang in the room La Joséphine. And there was this globetrotter who wherever he was took cuttings from trees and planted them back home. Et voilà, that explains the giant sequoias on the land of Oh, le château!
