Dream Home | A Renaissance lady’s retreat | Life-style

The behavioural traits of a home are decided by how its structure and inside format have been influenced by the distinct persona of its homeowners, how they assume, really feel, and behave.

Take the Renaissance proprietor of this luxury residential house with a golf course, mountain, and sea views. She has made this property hers, and it’s an exemplification of a life lived to the fullest as an influencer, entrepreneur, publicist, and globetrotter, along with being a philanthropist, a photographer and a culinary artist. She has supported causes close to and pricey to her coronary heart, equivalent to these within the arts, schooling, and ladies’s well being.

Take your magnificence sleep in any of the six fashionable bedrooms (with balconies and patios), together with non-public sitting rooms and a moist bar, with one being in its personal cottage. Perform your every day ablutions in eight marble and travertine bogs, that includes spa sizzling tubs, and double outside rain showers throughout the confines of hidden gardens.

Be enthralled by the doorway pavilion, a lobby, a front room (with its particular person seating areas), a proper air-conditioned eating room, and a household video games room – all embracing the coated outside leisure-dining wraparound terraces. The island kitchen is supplied with a butler’s pantry. There can be a examine, a health centre, a triple carport, and workers quarters. A Sonos sound system brings music to your ears all through. The 12,145 sq. ft of refined interiors is an amalgamation of Jamaican, Asian, and European influences, sure to impress and luxury you.

We discover the superbly landscaped grounds no much less interesting, with two extremely uncommon, impartial heated saltwater swimming swimming pools (one a 50-foot lap pool with a 12-foot solar shelf), together with a pool gazebo, and a hydrotherapy heated spa tub which inserts 12 folks. A backyard bathe is a welcome sight, in addition to a fireplace pit for roasting these marshmallows among the many laughter of household and mates.

This dream home, sprawled on a three-and-a-half-acre hilltop plateau in Sandy Bay, Hanover, is inside a prestigious guarded enclave, sharing seaside, golf, and tennis facilities. Photographed earlier than the passing of Hurricane Melissa, it was spared by the Category 5 storm.

Architecture does have an emotional impact on us, each bodily and psychologically. This dwelling house, a supply of fixed pleasure, evokes a optimistic response past measure.

Barry Rattray is a dream home designer and builder. Email suggestions to barryrattray1@hotmail.com and way of life@gleanerjm.com.