Paradise FOUND

Nestled in the hills above a small bay in Mallorca, this home was always going to be designed for relaxed Mediterranean living

- ROBYN ALEXANDER

The ideal location for a holiday home? It doesn’t get much better than the picturesque village of Deià, on the sea’s edge among the beautiful landscape of Mallorca’s Tramuntana mountains. Purchased a few years back from its original owner by a family from the UK, the house is one of a select few built during the late 1990s/early 2000s, when permission was given for the development of some properties off the winding road en route to Cala Deià. The cala is a tiny bay and beach that is perfectly suited to dips in the sea – as well as offering the possibility of relaxed summer lunches at its pair of everpopular seaside restaurants.

The new owners were faced with a spacious but very 1990s-style house, which included ‘glossy wall paint, dated direct light sources and heavy dark wood beams, doors and windows’, explains Oro del Negro from Deià-based architecture firm Moredesign, which was appointed by the owners to renovate the property. ‘There were also quite a lot of smaller, segregated spaces,’ adds Oro.