Local artist's new St-Sauveur B&B is inviting, quaint and comfortable
The cozy Gîte de l'Artiste Perron is St-Sauveur's newest B&B. Courtesy of Gîte de l'Artiste Perron Raymonde Perron wants you to do more than simply sleep and eat at her new B&B in St-Sauveur. She wants to you have a sensory experience. Perron is an artist and art teacher, and the Gîte de l’Artiste Perron is her gallery. You can gaze at canvases of flora and wetlands, and study the genre she calls “expressive realism.” The Lower Laurentians’ newest B&B is on a quiet, tree- lined residential street less than two kilometres from the centre of St-Sauveur. Perron and her husband, Jean-Marc Houle, transformed the lower- level bachelor apartment of their fieldstone bungalow into a getaway including two guest rooms with queen-size beds, plus a smaller room for children. Everything was rebuilt from scratch — floors, walls, ceilings, electricity and heating — so it’s fresh and inviting. The house is surrounded by hydrangeas, cherry trees, evergreens and Japanese lilac...