Villa Katerina

Description

INSIDE:

Accommodation at Villa Katerina is organised over a main house on three floors, and two independent garden guesthouses.

An impressive pivot door opens into a generously proportioned open-concept living and dining area. Walls of fully retractable floor-to-ceiling glass doors bring in the glorious sea views and the light and allow guests to move seamlessly between the indoor and outdoor areas.

The DNA of the villa’s overall aesthetic is encapsulated in this tranquil, uncluttered space. Cool grey concrete flooring flows organically out onto the terraces, white walls act as a blank canvas for colourful artworks, minimalist designer furniture offers both comfort and curiosity, and integrated lighting outlines and defines the property’s ultra-modern credentials. Everything has been meticulously designed and immaculately finished.

At one end of this space, a door opens into the sleek and extremely well-equipped contemporary kitchen, conveniently located for serving both the indoor and the outdoor dining area.

Back in the living area, a flight of stairs in sculpted poured concrete leads up to the first floor, which is home to the main bedroom, a luminous double-aspect double with inspiring sea views, a sofa, a large en-suite shower room with double sinks, and a supremely panoramic private terrace.

Further accommodation in the main house is found on the lower ground floor, which is accessed via a staircase from near the kitchen. Here there are:

• three good-sized double-twin bedrooms, each with its own sitting area, sea views, en-suite shower room, and access to a panoramic terrace
• a gym with treadmill, cross trainer and multi gym
• a guest WC
• a laundry room

The remaining accommodation at Villa Katerina is spread over a pair of independent guesthouses accessed from the gardens:

• the first has a double-twin bedroom with en-suite shower room
• the second is a self-contained suite with a double bedroom with en-suite shower room, and a living area with kitchen corner

OUTSIDE:

Villa Katerina’s al fresco areas are as beautifully finished, as spacious and as well furnished as the interiors. All the rooms flow out onto sea-view terraces and there is an abundance of options for those wishing to gather together or to find a private spot in which to read a book, snooze or while away the time reflecting on the gorgeousness of their surroundings.

The living and dining area open out via fully extendable sliding glass walls on two sides. To the front is a shady panoramic vantage point looking out to sea, while to the side is the fabulous pool area, also with sea views.

At the centre is the amazing 17m-long zero edge infinity pool whose final stretch angles out towards the sea. A covered sitting area furnished with sofas and easy chairs offers shade, while elsewhere, loungers invite sun worshippers to bask in the warming rays.

Up a few steps from the pool area is the large dining gazebo, built with open stone walls, topped with a wood-beamed roof, and equipped with a kitchen, atmospheric lighting and a large table. This is an extremely convivial spot, especially in the evening as dusk turns to night.

Paths weave through the lawned gardens connecting the various spaces and the two guesthouses, while down below, outside the main house’s lower ground floor bedrooms is a well-furnished sea-view terrace with plunge pool Jacuzzi.

The main bedroom on the first floor of the main house has its own private terrace, whose views out to sea and over the coastline are bewitching.

The last three elements of Villa Katerina’s outdoor areas take the property to yet another level: first, flanking the house on one side is a private area of woodland through which guests may stroll, breathe in the pine-aromatic air and, in a clearing, pick delicious ingredients from the organic vegetable garden; second is the basketball court, hidden away in the gardens; third is the magical path that leads down through the gardens to the sea gate and on to an idyllic, privately organised pebbly beach with sun loungers and parasols.