harmony with nature

We were featured in the New York Times: Living in Harmony in Bali and now in the new book:  Seen Unseen: Embracing Natural Home Design on Bali! Lounge on one of three daybeds Take a dip in our private pool. We have incorporated old Javanese panels, but the spirit is modern. Enjoy sleeping under  the handmade grass roof and shower in the outdoor shower.  Bareng Bareng is our newest addition to our 4 Natural Villas, We recommend it for families because of its spacious 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. At night, lock up the whole house for privacy and safety. Bareng Bareng is our onlyArchitect Designed Natural Villa 4 - Houses for Rent in Ubud villa with air-conditioning in each bedroom.

Natural Amenities

• an antique carved Javanese teak panel, poured cement counters, heritage cement tiles.

• designed for cross ventilation. Bareng Bareng will remain cool, but we also have provided AC in all the bedrooms for your extra comfort.

• Our private pool has thousands of hand laid white stones lining bottom and sides.

• we are in a hilly village, Penestanan Kaja, without cars and hard to find. It takes approximately seven minutes along a river path and then up 30 steps to walk from the car drop-off to our villas. Our recommended drivers know the way and will carry your bags. Others won't.

• a massage table and phone number for our favorite masseuse and masseur to come pamper you even more, on the balcony if you’d like.

• we had to splurge and give you Sensatia Botanicals. We love them and so will you.

• our password protected secret spots collected from almost 20 years of exploration and love for Bali.

• our greatest treasure, our Bali angels to care for you.

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Architect Designed Natural Villa 4a - Houses for Rent in Ubud

 If it should work out, Bareng Bareng would be our new dream house...

Joe and Beat Bern, Switzerland. They have been our guests 7 times.

The Rice Paddies are your Ever-Changing Garden.

We were featured in the New York Times: Building in Harmony in Bali and now our book  Seen Unseen: Embracing Natural Home Design in Bali is out.

Walk 10 minutes and up 40 steps or ride a rented scooter along a tropical river path and then up 40 steps to our brand new Natural Villa: Bareng Bareng (which means being together in Balinese). Our village Penestanan Kaja has no car access. When you arrive, our staff will meet you and bring you your family and your bags on scooters along a private drive.

Our Flora Natural Villa: Bareng Bareng is gorgeous and designed to be in touch with nature. Off the beaten path in hip Penestanan--but only a short walk to cool cafes, the supermarket and yoga, and rice paddy walks. All 3 bedrooms have AC and and the whole house closes and locks for your family’s privacy.

The pool is divine. Our artisan builders laid thousands of white stones to make it feel truly like a natural pond.

Our neighborhood has no car access or noise, but many sounds of geckos, roosters, frogs and collared kingfisher birds, while still walking distance from Ubud (15 minutes). If you are used to a city life which is not in contact with nature, you might love our ecological joglo experience, or find it a little overwhelming. 

Each of our natural villas has its own personality and we carefully design every detail  to make sure that  staying in these transformed traditional structures is a one of a kind experience in Luxurious But Simple Ecological Living. 
  
As in all of our houses we have incorporated an antique carved panel in the living room. The carving in this antique panel is traditional Javanese. The roof as in all our houses is a work of art in itself. It is made of handwoven grass known as "alang-alang".

I have combined traditional elements, but the sensibility is modern with an emphasis on comfort. There are no villas in Ubud quite as uniquely in Touch With Nature as Passiflora, Jazmin, Marguerite and Bareng Bareng. We have ceiling and standing fans for your comfort as well as air-conditioning in all three bedroom.

Dayu will pamper you with healthy breakfasts. Choose either a super thin mushroom or ham and cheese omelette made with the best butter and served with baby potatoes or Balinese black rice pudding or banana pancakes and Bali Buda bread, Bali Coffee and our homemade yogurt and jam. No breakfast would be complete without a plate of Balinese tropical fruit artfully cup by our angels. If you are vegan as them to make you a tofu stir fry instead.

Bareng Bareng is a truly unique experience for FIT folks who want to be in touch with the Bali of rice farmers in the most natural way! Enjoy! All my secret spots are password preserved for our guests after they book.  This is an always-evolving  list  of must do and must eat and must shop from a ten year + +  love affair with Bali. And my beautiful and kind and helpful staff: Made and Made, and Putu.   

We are doubly happy when we see the variety of different kinds of people, who are happy and make our homes their homes. That is your gift to us.  We are available via email and SMS.   And we have a very complete list of all things wonderful that are "must dos", our very own little map of the neighborhood and of Ubud  and a local phone for use of our guests with our numbers in them. A nice touch!

Penestanan has become hip... and now has its very own yoga studio (Intuitive Flow), meditation center, approximately 10+ charming restaurants (Indonesian, Italian, Raw/Organic, Vegetarian, Vegan)  and a cafe and bakery, so you don't even have to get on your motorbike.  
We can organize a scooter for you  for $7 per day or you can take an expensive taxi to Ubud $5 per ride.. or you can walk... 20 minutes.. to all things Ubud . You can also hire a car with a driver for about  $50 US.  
If you'd like a  Studio Magnolia home of your own, let us know. :)

We STRONGLY advise using our select drivers who know our location & will carry bags the 6 min. walk + 30 steps.  Other drivers can't find us and won't carry bags.