4-Bed Sea Villa

A completed four-bedroom villa standing alone on a hill crest above Taling Ngam, on the quiet south-west side of the island, with the sea and the islands offshore in view from almost every room. The house is arranged over three levels and built in what its architects called modern Thai coastal: locally quarried granite walls, bleached Thai teak, pebble wash, terrazzo floors, hand cast bronze ironmongery and azure Sukabumi stone, with open corridors and sliding teak-framed walls that let the sea breeze run right through. The main living level opens across a 150 sqm infinity pool and a solid teak deck that looks due west, with an island bar, a dining area and a fully fitted kitchen with hob, hood, oven, wine fridge and stone island counter. Four bedrooms each have their own bathroom in Carrara marble mosaic and terrazzo, two with private balconies out over the water, and the master bath has a freestanding tub set against the view. Below the living level are a family media room, a gym and a spa treatment room, together with a powder room, laundry, separate housekeeper's quarters and bath, and covered parking for two cars. The grounds take in a planted courtyard, a 68 sqm pond, lawns and irrigated tropical landscaping, and the plot runs to 3,035 sqm in all. Services are built for a hillside house: an automatic back-up generator that picks up on power loss, an on-site deep well feeding raw and clear water storage tanks, ducted and cassette air conditioning throughout, gas piped to the kitchen and 24 hour security on the gated estate, where plots run from 1,200 to 3,000 sqm and nothing is built close. Samui International Airport is about 40 minutes away, and Thong Krut, Laem Sor Pagoda and the beaches and beach restaurants of the south-west coast are all within a short drive.