Some houses are built for shelter. This one was built for light.
Casa Palmera sits on a quiet hillside where the afternoon arrives warm and leaves reluctantly. Whitewashed walls, terracotta floors, and a garden of stone pines, palms, and olive trees frame two private suites and a west-facing pool terrace.
Held by one family and offered privately for the first time. A rare chance to own a house that was designed around the sun — and has never needed anything else.
I wanted to feel like I'm on holiday from my life, even on an ordinary Tuesday.
Everything here started from one thing: how I wanted to feel walking in. I had that clear in my head long before anything else made sense. The feeling started with Palm Springs. I'd never lived there, but something about that 1970s desert world had lodged in me years ago and never left. The ease of it. The sense that life was meant to be slower and warmer and a little more golden than the one I was actually living.
I wanted to come off the coast road, open a door, and feel like I'd stepped out of my own routine into somewhere that existed slightly outside of time. That was it, really.
Why Palm Springs and not something more obviously Mediterranean? Because the desert and the sea are after the same thing from opposite directions. Both are about light and rest. But the 70s had a confidence I was missing in everything modern I'd seen. Those earth tones, those colors that shouldn't go together and absolutely do, that warmth in every surface. It felt like optimism. I wanted to live inside that optimism. Nothing cold, nothing clever for its own sake. I wanted to feel held.
The glass brick I wanted almost selfishly. I'd seen it somewhere, years back, and the way light came through it stayed with me longer than most things do. I couldn't have explained why. I just knew I wanted to stand in a room in the morning and have the sun arrive soft and round and gold instead of sharp. I wanted that glow. And now it's the thing I love most in the house. It edits the light into something kinder. It feels private and open at once. Every morning it does the one thing I hoped for without my ever knowing how to ask for it.
Honestly, it makes me feel like a better version of my day is possible. I walk in and my shoulders drop. The high ceilings give me air, the warm materials make me want to stay, and that golden light does something to my mood I don't fully have words for. I didn't set out to build a house in a particular style. I chased a feeling I'd been carrying for years, and somehow it turned into a place I get to live in. That's the part I'm proudest of.
01The Villa
Whitewashed walls under a terracotta roof, vaulted ceilings, and rooms that follow the sun from east to west. Renovated with original materials; ready to live in from day one.
02The Suites
Two independent guest suites with private entrances — use them for family, or let them carry the house. Both are proven earners with a full booking history available to serious buyers.
03The Grounds
A private 8×4 m pool flanked by olive trees, a pergola dining terrace facing the sunset, and mature gardens of stone pine and palm that give the house its name.
Every room holds the light differently.
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