Guanacaste, Costa Rica, $1.575 million
A Up to date Property in a Sustainability-Targeted Resort
Referred to as Villa Serena, the house is in Reserva Conchal, a 2,300-acre beachfront resort on the nation’s northwest coast. Standout facilities embrace the 96-acre wildlife reserve, a seaside membership, two spas, a big oceanfront health heart and quite a few outside actions resembling kayaking and stand-up paddling. Reserva Conchal has a number of real-estate developments, every with its personal aesthetic, and Villa Serena is a part of Melina, whose dozen properties have views of the Robert Trent Jones II golf course and close by tropical forest.
Sustainability is a precedence on the resort: It has near 1,400 photo voltaic panels that present renewable vitality together with solar-powered streetlights, a desalination plant that re-mineralizes seawater to make it drinkable and an A.I.-equipped irrigation system that forestalls overwatering. The event additionally produces natural fertilizer to make use of in its inexperienced areas and promotes reusable water bottles.
Dimension: 5,000 sq. toes
Worth per sq. foot: $315
Indoors: Constructed on the golf course, Villa Serena, whereas up to date in design, has a tropical really feel because of its open format and abundance of indigenous bushes and flowers that encompass the house, together with hibiscus bushes. Options embrace vaulted ceilings, off-white granite and marble counter tops and flooring, and a sprawling front room on the entry stage that opens to a big terrace. The master bedroom can also be on the principle stage and has each an indoor and outside bathe. The remainder of the bedrooms, all with terraces, are on the second ground.
Inexperienced parts embrace the sliding doorways and ceiling followers that naturally cool the house and make air-conditioning pointless (although it does have air-conditioning), photo voltaic panels and a gray-water recycling system for bogs and irrigation. Villa Serena is constructed with sustainable native wooden.
Outside house: The garden is giant, as is the terrace, which has an infinity pool going through the golf course, a scorching tub, seating space and kitchen with a barbecue.
