The house
A hundred and eighty square metres over two floors.
Five named spaces, three bedrooms, four bathrooms, a garden and covered parking. Below is everything you need in order to work out whether ten of you fit.
- Bedrooms
- 3
- Beds
- 10
- Bathrooms
- 4
- Air conditioners
- 3
- Ceiling fans
- 6
- Covered parking
- 1
- Living room with dining area
- Pantry kitchen
- Laundry with washing machine
- Hot water in three of the four bathrooms
- Private garden
- Hammock hooks between the two columns
01
The living room
You come in and see straight through: the living room, the dining table and the green of the garden all on one axis. The big window stays open most of the day, and the birds and the sea come in with it.
Between the two columns are the hooks for two hammocks. That is where the afternoon tends to end up.
The bench and the niches, in the evening From the front door to the stairs, on one axis The dining table, with its long bench
02
The kitchen
A wide kitchen with a pantry, and room for two or three people to cook without getting in each other’s way. The Olímpica supermarket is across the road and delivers, so the shopping turns up while you are on the beach.
If you would rather not cook at all, a housekeeper we know does the shopping, the meals and the house. You settle it with us before you arrive.
The sink, under the wall cupboards The cupboards and the microwave Plates and glasses, above the hob
03
The ground floor room
The room for whoever would rather not do stairs: on the ground floor, with a double bed and a bunk, air conditioning and a hot shower of its own.
It opens straight onto the living room, which also makes it the right room to take if you are travelling with small children.
04
Bathrooms and laundry
Four bathrooms in all, three of them with a hot shower. The fourth has cold water only — which in Santa Marta means lukewarm.
The laundry is a room of its own, with a washing machine and a line in the shade, and a door straight through to the covered parking. On long stays the cleaner comes as often as you want her.
The service corridor, towards the parking Another bathroom, with a pedestal basin From the laundry to the covered parking
05
The second floor
Two bedrooms and a bathroom. One double, the other with bunks; the air conditioning is independent in both.
From the landing you can hear the sea at night. It is the part of the house that empties first in the morning, because breakfast happens downstairs.
The bunk bedroom, on the second floor
The double bedroom, on the second floor The second floor bathroom The stairs, from the second floor