“ …a sophisticated residence with unparalleled levels of style, comfort and absolute luxury”

Baan NaPa is a villa of grand proportions; natural elements used throughout include tall, cathedral-like teak ceilings, large glass folding doors and materials such as traditional tropical hardwood doors and marble floors to extenuate the design.

Arriving at the front of the villa, the traditional Thai gatehouse leads to a wooden bridge, which takes you up to the elegantly carved front doors, just hinting at the luxury within. When the doors open, the views through the house, across the pool and out onto the ocean will simply take your breath away. Stepping into the villa, you’ll instantly recognise the magnificence of this property. The traditional architectural features are blended perfectly with a mix of contemporary Anglo and Thai furniture, all fashioned out of natural materials, that create a modern, stylish and luxurious environment. The open plan sitting room and dining room both contain furniture that has been made to our specifications – the dining area is dominated by a large teak table and eight solid teak chairs.

The sitting room has solid teak coffee tables and chairs in a mixture of Anglo/Thai styles, together with cream, comfy sofas that are watched over by a beautiful teak Buddha wall carving. The folding doors from both the dining area and sitting room, lead onto a very large balcony, with stunning views over the swimming pool and gardens to the sea beyond, offering a genuine indoor/outdoor living experience. The room is wired with speakers to a powerful i-Pod music unit, allowing you to select from hundreds of tracks of all styles of music – or you can bring your own i-Pod to plug in. It also has a wireless remote control, to give you full control of the i-Pod from all over the villa, piping music to speakers in the living room, games room, pool terrace and into the Sala.

Just off the dining room is a small, stylish cloakroom. To the left of the dining room, is a sleek, white, modern kitchen, with striking granite worktops, which includes a breakfast bar and bar stools and American Fridge/Freezer with filtered cold-water facility and ice dispenser.

Stepping out onto the covered balcony, you will find the Master Bedroom Suite next door, with views overlooking the pool, sea and tropical forest coastline. It has a vaulted teak ceiling, large ceiling fan, remote control air-conditioning, black marble floor and comes complete with walk-in dressing room and en-suite wetroom. The wetroom has twin ‘his and hers’ basins on a black granite plinth and a huge walk-in shower. The bedroom furniture has been handmade to our specifications and features a teak Thai King-size four-poster bed along with teak chest of draws, bedside tables, stools and a 32” flat-screen LCD television and DVD player.

To the left of the main pavilion is the guest pavilion, housing two expansive guest suites, each with en-suite wetrooms and stunning sea views. Both have grey/brown marble floors, large ceiling fans and remote control air-conditioning, Again, each suite has furniture built especially for it – the first has a Thai teak king-size bed, teak chest of draws, bedside tables, fitted wardrobes and a 32” flat-screen LCD television with DVD player. From its folding doors, it has views out over the pool, gardens and tropical coastline, whilst the panoramic window has views straight out to sea. The second suite has two traditional Thai teak single beds, teak chest of draws, bedside tables, fitted wardrobes and 32” flat-screen LCD television with DVD player. Its folding doors give views out to the pool, gardens and beyond to the sea. Both guest suites have en-suite wetrooms, with basins on a black granite plinth and huge walk-in showers.

Taking the steps down from the main pavilion’s balcony, past the Master Bedroom Suite, you find the Television Room/Fourth Bedroom Suite. This has cream marble floors and remote control air-conditioning. It comprises three sofas, together with a traditional Thai coffee table, a 42” LCD flat-screen television with DVD/CD player and a full home cinema surround-sound system. Blackout curtains have been installed to ensure the correct lighting levels for the room. These frame a huge panoramic window, overlooking the pool and sea. The sofas have been especially designed to be used as a king-size double bed if required. Just off this room is another, spacious, en-suite wetroom, with a basin on a black granite plinth and shower area.

Steps from the television room lead down to the main terrace and swimming pool, which is surrounded by large planters full of bougainvillea, birds of paradise and other colourful plants. Six teak sunbeds line the pool edge, together with stylish cream sun umbrellas and teak tables. The azure-blue pool is over 40 square metres and is a constant 1.5 metres deep, with shallow steps leading in at one corner – its infinity edge merges the pool with the sea, just 40 metres away. The pool is ideal for both leisurely and serious swimming. There is also a pool shower to one side of the terrace.

From the terrace, taking the teak walkway, steps lead up to the expansive games room. This is open to the terrace and pool and has a full-size slate-bed red baize-covered pool table and table tennis facility, together with a rattan table and chairs. A door at the end leads into the large storeroom, housing back-up generators, one for each building, in case of occasional power failures. Two metre wide steps lead down from the swimming pool terrace to the staff quarters and to the walkway below the swimming pool, with its unique natural slate-faced waterfall edge. Further steps at the end of the walkway lead down to the large Thai-style Sala, which has stunning views across the Thai Gulf.

The Sala has rattan furniture comprising a large table and six chairs – ideal for barmy evenings, eating dinner in the tranquil surroundings, or just sipping tropical cocktails. It is also wired with outdoor speakers attached to the Music Unit in the sitting room and comes with a wireless remote control, to allow you to select the music that fits the mood, without leaving the sala.

The villa has immaculately landscaped gardens surrounding the property. The large lawn area, below the swimming pool, leads to steps that take you down to the rocky waters edge.

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