Villa Melissa

Each of these bedrooms has French windows that open onto semi-private gardens with fishponds. The walkway then leads into the main pavilion with the living room and dining room spilling out onto the pool area. A double stairway, centred around long steel columns with twisting spokes to support the bannisters, takes you up to a mezzanine and the ocean-facing bedrooms, each with its own balcony with unrivalled views over the waves. Each of the five bedrooms is equipped with a TV and sound system. All have dressing areas, balconies or terraces, and gorgeous ensuite bathrooms, fitted with twin washbasins, walk-in rainshowers and bathtubs-for-two. The pièce de résistance is the master bathroom, where a sunken bathtub appears to float upon a water garden under a grass roof.

The air-conditioned living room is characterised by a timber floor and soft lighting. It features two sitting areas furnished with sofas, chairs and coffee tables, and is equipped with a TV and sound system. The dining room is positioned to one side and offers the choice of semi-alfresco dining or air-conditioned comfort.

 A horseshoe-shaped service bar links the dining room to the professional kitchen. Upstairs the timber-floored mezzanine presents an ambient spot to chill out under a soaring roof, accompanied by mesmerising views and the sound of the sea. The villa showcases a mix of modern furnishings and Dutch-colonial antiques.

The front of the villa showcases four, massive 12-metre-high, wooden columns with long retractable screens to shade the sun from the inside of the house. Here the roar of the surf comes to the fore with a sea breeze to match. The garden is dominated by a 20 x 6-metre infinity-edge, T-shaped swimming pool surrounded by a stone deck.  The lawn then rolls down to the beach with a relaxation balé on one side and a dining pavilion on the other, complete with a table for ten and more incredible ocean views.