This once in a lifetime opportunity, a detached Villa built in 2014, yet recently renovated, offers in 3(+) bedrooms and 3 bathrooms the perfect mix of comfort, leisure and luxurious lifestyle with a highly advanced technical standard, making the time spend in your new home utmost enjoyable. A spacious saltwater pool, a relaxing jacuzzi and a huge, covered terrace area, are just a few of the additional key features of this estate, set in a spectacular landscape.

Main House

Walking through the entrance door, you enter the hallway with built-in floor-to-ceiling cupboards offering ample storage space. Continue to the left side on the ground floor to the first (guest) bedroom with a fully equipped ensuite bathroom. To the right side reveals  the impressive open-plan living area. The newly fitted kitchen, also including Neff appliances, a filo top 5 burners gas stove from Foster, an American Fridge connected to the water supply delivering filtered water/ ice cubes and a sink that has a built in second faucet with a separate filter system, ensuring high quality drinking water.

One step ahead, behind the kitchen island, a triple sided fireplace is a central feature of this remarkable lounge area opening with floor to ceiling doors upon the large covered terrace. The handcrafted sliding barn door leads to an additional guest toilet and stairs to take you to the first floor into the master suite with bright bedroom, dressing room and ensuite bathroom with free standing bathtub, walk in shower, and elegant washbasin. The huge balcony with awning spoils you with stunning views over the garden, the beautiful landscape, the valley and the mountains.

Office

Downstairs again; wide double winged glass doors will let you enter the comfortable office on the north side, with ceiling spots between the slender beams, creating a cosy yet light atmosphere giving space for an elevated double bunkbed, offering the opportunity to let guests find relaxing sleep. The attached storage room provides practical big space.

Studio

To the east side of the house, a separate entrance leads you into the studio with ensuite bathroom. The extraordinary high ceiling with its whitewashed beams gives this room its characteristic house-in-house charm. This studio could also be connected to the main house, or turned into a completely separate unit, the plumbing for a kitchen already being installed.

In front of this marvelous studio is another romantic terrace surrounded by lavender and roses.

Outside & Pool Area

Designed for outdoor living with outdoor kitchen including pizza oven, dining and lounge area, mirroring the inside, giving space to spend countless hours full of comfort and peace, or enjoy the company of family and friends. The saltwater pool in front is with 38m² just as ample and invites to unwind and relax as much as the jacuzzi by it’s side, while enjoying magnificent views of the White Mountains. The whole area provides total privacy. Additionally, blinds around the center of the terrace can be shut completely to offer all year use.

The outside of this remarkable villa boasts an impressive 4029m2 of flat, fertile land with 20 olive trees, lime, quince, pomegranate, lavender, rosemary, mint, eucalyptus, cypress trees, grapes and many more. The area is enclosed entirely with fences, the driveway is accessible through an electric gate with intercom.

Automatic outdoor lighting is covering terraces, driveway and surrounding of the house. A fully automatic irrigation system, an on three sides enclosed carport and space for further cars enhances the property even more.

The villa is equipped with an highly advanced technical standard: Double-glazed aluminum frames with electric shutters and mosquito screens, autonomous underfloor heating and cooling powered by heat pump, fan coil system powered by heat pump, additional air-condition in all bedrooms, alarm system, emergency lights in case off electric cut offs, intercom, photovoltaic electricity, electric gates, automatic irrigation system, passive pool heating via pv, automatically filling saltwater pool.

Location

Considered one of the most beautiful parts of the Apokoronas region, Armeni is a traditional village with an important church, two great tavernas, 2 cafes, mini market and superb delicatessen.

The river, not even 5 min walking distance from the Estate, offer splendid walking routes, perfectly also in the heat of summer, and makes this one of the greenest spots in the area.

Enjoy a timeless Cretan way of life with the convenience of the Kalives beaches and the National Highway only a 5-minute drive away, Chania city within 25 minutes and the airport being approximately 40 minutes.

Within this tranquil, green setting the villa has so many options – a lovely place to live all year or partly, to work from home, to use it (partly) as a rental for extra income, to be self-sufficient with fertile land, to offer retreats or other gatherings, or as the current owner – keep horses.

This Estate represents a rare opportunity to live in a prestigious house where design and technology come together, to provide the ultimate comfort and safety in a fantastic location.

Technical Benefits and Features:

• Underfloor heating and cooling powered by heat pump
• Fan coil system (cooling tubes in the ceiling), powered by heat pump
• A/C units back up in all bedrooms
• Ceiling vans in lounge and upstairs bedroom and outside patio
• Big closed fireplace
• Solar panel for hot water
• Jacuzzi
• Spacious carport with blinds
• Full drainage system around the house
• Tiled heated saltwater pool (passive pool heating by extra solar panels)
• Biological septic tank
• Irrigation System
• Photovoltaic panels, overproduced electricity goes to the grid
• Low maintenance costs
• Alarm system
• Intercom with video and automatic gate opening
• Separate filter for drinking water in kitchen
• American fridge
• Filtered water connected to the fridge
• Kitchen appliances from NEF like dishwasher, oven, microwave
• Filo Top Gas hub with 5 cooking fields from Foster
• Electric shutters
• Mosquito screens