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Villa Jezebel Sardinia

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Italia
Porto Columbu - Perd'e Sali
Villa Jezebel Sardinia

Currently being fully renovated, Villa Jezebel will be ready to accept bookings in June 2023
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Having sold my beloved Villa Virago and retired as manager in October 2022, this page is now dedicated to my exciting new project, Villa Jezebel

Villa Jezebel was lovingly designed by a prominent architect as his own home, but sadly fell into a state of total disrepair due to a repossession and three decades of neglect and vandalism. This is the story of our renovation journey from uninhabitable

wreck to luxury villa offering eight spacious bedrooms, a private pool and direct beach access

We hope you enjoy the ride with us... It won't be easy but it will be an awful lot of fun �

31/12/2024

January 1st 2024 and I set out to find a way to link my two favourite hiking areas by going straight up an enormous mountain.
We failed.
So we decided to try again on the last day of the year with reinforcements (four brave souls and six brilliant dogs). 25km with some ridiculous climbs and 6.5 hours later without really knowing where we were going, we managed to do it.
I'm broken, Booze is broken (Baloo would happily do it all again immediately) but it feels beyond brilliant to have achieved this little goal I randomly set myself
Prosecco and caviar on top of the mountain was the magic touch of fabulousness to see 2024 out and start afresh for 2025
Have a great one all ###

09/10/2024

As I get older I appreciate these kinds of friendships more and more. Living in different countries means we don't see eachother often. We can go months without even being in contact. But most every year these two beautiful humans come over for a week or two and it's blissful.
We have enough history to have an endless supply of in jokes and shared anecdotes to make us cackle. We have conversations about anything and everything. We feel comfortable enough to talk about the hard things and our plans. In between talking each others ears off the silences are comfortable. And saying "I love you" feels natural and true
Thank you and for being you, for having been here (again) and for being there. For your generosity, your wit, your company and your friendship
You always leave me with a hangover when you leave, both literal and emotional and I wouldn't have it any other way ###

03/06/2024

There's nothing more boring to me than a relentlessly tasteful home. I crave the kitsch, the weird, the right thing in the wrong place, just a touch of something clashing with the carefully thought out colour scheme, something way bigger than it has any right to be, and bonus points for something just a wee bit hideous.
It gives a space personality, makes me smile, makes me look twice in a way beige cushions, tasteful art or matching sofa and armchair sets never will.
I think it's about confidence. Once you've mastered the art of good taste and know it, you can let yourself have fun and play with bad taste. And I promise it'll elevate everything and make it so much more enjoyable. Everything from interior design to art to music (sound up for that one) to fashion. I promise you everything truly wonderful has just a dash of bad taste

26/01/2024

You know all those "buy a house in Italy for a Euro" stories you see all over the place that sound too good to be true?

Well I certainly didn't buy my house for a Euro but I've somehow managed to become a real life cautionary tale about the utter nightmare renovation in Italy can be.

I've been very quiet about what's been going on because another fun fact about Italy is that you're open to a lawsuit for defamation EVEN if everything you say is true if you make the other party look bad. And since there's nothing I can say about my situation that won't make the other parties look bad, I'm stuck saying nothing at all (for now) since the other party has made it clear they'll fire off a defamation suit if I do.

But what I can tell you is that we FINALLY have a date for the court appointed engineer to come in and assess the true state of the site. Which, after 15 months (during which I've not even been allowed to set foot on my own property) is not a pretty picture.

Still, the view's nice at sunset isn't it?

Hopefully, hopefully, this will be a huge step forward and pave the way for me to get this site going again and finished

This isn't just the house of my dreams that I've been in love with for 15 years. This is my business, my income and where I currently have all of my assets. So emotionally, mentally and financially I need this to be done.

Onwards and bloody upwards.

26/12/2023

I managed to convince some friends to climb a mountain with us today to work off those Christmas hangovers. Solo hiking is amazing but it's so nice to share some of my special places with friends ❤️

16/12/2023

Every single room should have at least one truly weird piece in it. Something that makes you look twice, that makes you smile, that makes you want to pick it up for a better look or something that makes you go "what the hell is that?"
Every. Single. Room.

Those are the pieces that get me up well before dawn to hunt through the mountains of crap at the flea market every week and those are the pieces that elevate a room and make it feel like home.

I can't WAIT to get all my weirdness out of storage and into Villa Jezebel so that other people can enjoy it as much as I do ❤️

28/10/2023

A perfect world

23/10/2023

October at our little local beach
Bobobeach Porto Columbu

28/07/2023

He's sexy and he knows it

26/07/2023

I didn't realise a quad ride at sunset over the Giara was on my bucket list until I did it.

Views for miles, the air temperature perfect despite the heatwave and saying hello to little wild Giara horse families and their babies on the way

Heaven ❤️

13/07/2023

Six years ago today I bought Villa Jezebel at auction. I wasn't looking for another property but for nine years I'd loved her from afar.

Beachfront, quirky and abandoned for decades. She ticked all the boxes for me and I'd take a minute to daydream about owning her every time I passed by. Funny enough exactly a year and a day before the auction, I stopped for a swim at the beach right in front of her, turned to my friend Domi (in the picture with me here) and said "that's going to be my next project". But I didn't really believe it would happen.

For four years I worked hard to get the finances to renovate her, and after COVID hit and devastated my income for two years, I even sold my beloved Villa Virago so I could make the Villa Jezebel dream a reality.

Finally starting building work in September 2022 should have been an incredible moment for me. Sadly right from the start issues arose. After just six weeks of work, I was forced to close down the site. And for nine months now, she's stood empty and half derelict.

Those close to me know what an emotional rollercoaster the last several months have been. The immense stress, frustration and sleepless nights. I have full faith in my lawyer and engineer and genuinely believe the universe has a plan. Even if that plan isn't the one I had in mind, absolutely everything happens for a reason and it is always for the highest good. I've been through tough times in the past, and when I look back it's always with gratitude knowing that every single time those struggles changed me and changed my life for the better.

So even though it seems like everything has gone absolutely t**s up, I'm not stressing over it any more. I'm happy, already grateful, excited about what's coming next and have total faith that one day soon I'll look back and think "oh, that's why that had to happen"

Onwards and upwards. Always ❤️

Indirizzo

Porto Columbu - Perd'e Sali
09018

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