HASCalling your hair salon “Atmosp’Hair” or “Infini-Tif” is not inevitable in the 21st century.e century. In Savigny-en-Septaine (Cher), Clémence Pérot has chosen a more sober “Adventure Coiffure”, which also turns out to be fairer. Inaugurated in July, his establishment has everything of an “adventure” indeed. Instead of renting a pas-de-porte in this town with a few shops, this 26-year-old hairdresser opted for a tiny house, which she installed at the bottom of her garden. Getting a haircut here is a unique experience. Large bay windows invite you to contemplate the neighboring meadow – the luckiest will even see deer galloping there in the morning mist. Maples caress the windows. In fine weather, a wooden terrace invites you to wait in the open air, sipping an espresso.
To his knowledge, Clémence Pérot would be the only one in France to have transferred a “genuine” hair salon in a tiny house. The space is cramped (18 square meters on the ground), but nothing is missing: three styling stations, a shampoo basin, a kitchen area with fridge also serving as laboratory to prepare the colorings, a mini-bathroom, a washing machine, a 200-litre water heater, reversible air conditioning connected remotely, a television connected to music channels, an access ramp for people with reduced mobility, a fake wood-burning stove (totally electric) dedicated to strengthening “the cocooning atmosphere”… Without forgetting, on the outside, four wheels and a tow hook. This is the main interest of a tiny house: to land further away, if necessary.
His companion, Charles, works as a mechanic at air base 702, in Avord, located 7 kilometers away. Mutations are commonplace in the military: “If that were to happen, we would just have to hitch the tiny to a truck to settle elsewhere”, explains the stylist, who is not her first experience of traveling salons. Between 2018 and 2021, Adventure Coiffure occupied the 20 cubic meters of a Renault Master. The van was parked in markets and parking lots in industrial areas. Clémence Pérot had then chosen the path of mobility after several years spent in traditional salons, “to make chain cuts with poor quality products”. The Covid then slowed down his itinerant activity, while giving him the opportunity to think about another concept.
We come from afar
The young woman would never have carried out her project without her father, a worker in a stainless steel tank factory and former boss of a masonry and roofing company. Pascal Pérot is a first-class handyman. It was he who, every weekend, for six months, refurbished and fitted out the cabin, bought second-hand for 40,000 euros from an individual. First we had to plug the leaks – “we saw through the ground” – then insulate the floor and ceiling, mount the partitions, supply water and electricity… And above all, optimize the space. A mezzanine, furnished with a sofa bed, has been created to accommodate visiting friends.
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