P-0030 - Vilcabamba/Malacatos - 2,000m2 - $145,000 - Home & Gardens - A Stunning Artist's Residence. (Interior & Exterior Pics Slideshows Below.)
Nestled in about half an acre of lovingly tended completely organic gardens and natural beauty, lies an exquisite artist's residence ... that has to be seen in person to be believed!
This little wonderland has been a work in progress for over ten years now ... and the right person will undoubtedly LOVE to benefit from all the hard work that has been put into this gorgeous space.
Literally everything on this property has the artist's flourish, from the multitude of mosaics both inside and out, to the colouring, designs, nooks, and open-plan "flow" throughout. The rockeries, terraces, ponds, and extensive gardens in and around the home only serve to complement the aforementioned beauty.
Designed and coloured in a kind of "Taos New Mexico" flavour ... this property has one bedroom and a gorgeous indoor/outdoor bathroom downstairs, and upstairs, an artist's studio, and patio entertaining area which looks across the gardens and down over the Malacatos valley.
The upstairs could quite easily be converted into a kind of residential studio-apartment (or master-bedroom & bathroom), depending on the new owner's needs. The landscaping, gardening, and overall aesthetic throughout the property really has to be seen first-hand, to be properly appreciated.
The property has electricity (private transformer), potable water (from the wonderful San Pedro system), and also canal water with twin 2,500L storage tanks ... for irrigating the gorgeous gardens, supplying the duck-pond, etc.
Zooming out to the bigger picture, this property is contained within a larger, 7 hectare (17 acre) property, which is replete with a winter creek, producing orchards, citrus trees, bananas, coffee, wild berries, etc. It is pretty much a perfect ecosystem in this hidden, protected and well-irrigated valley. All SIX of the prerequisites for a fully functional and thriving ecosystem are here in abundance on the property. Bats, butterflies, dragonflies, bees, frogs, and hummingbirds. The property also has about the prettiest squirrels you'll ever see!
The larger property is secured with a locked metal gate up top for car access, but is also (very handily) an easy flat-ground ten minute walk from the home to the highway (along the canal) ... from where you can bus or taxi to wherever you need to go. Taxi to downtown Vilca from this highway point is usually $2.50. If you wait for the bus, that trip will only cost you 50c. From that point (top of the range in Cararango) it about equidistant time/distance-wise ... to Vilcabamba or Malacatos.
Another noteworthy point is that the larger property has retained all the old growth trees within its borders. And within that, this property is what can only be described as a veritable sanctuary-space ... which has been lovingly blessed with an abundance of the previous owner's artistic soul.
If you are interested to view this artist's fairytale abode ... please get in touch.
Interior Pics
- Kitchen to the left ... as you walk through the front door.
- Kitchen to the left ... as you walk through the front door.
- Living area to the right ... as you walk through the front door.
- Living area to the right ... as you walk through the front door.
- Divider-feature between living-room and kitchen (stove & oven are on the other side of this feature).
- Bedroom ... abuts living-room.
- Bedroom ... walk-in-closet at left.
- Divider-feature ... between living-room and bedroom.
- Bedroom ... access leading out to hammock-garden-patio.
- Hammoc-garden-patio.
- Accessing bathroom area ... access off (kitchen/living).
- Moving through the bathroom area ... towards the indoor/outdoor bath/shower grotto.
- The "throne-room" ... a composting toilet ... shared by many superstars of yesteryear!
- The indoor/outdoor bath/shower grotto!
- The indoor/outdoor bath/shower grotto!
- Laundry area - abuts the bathroom grotto.
- And now we go upstairs ... to the artist's studio ...
- Main work-bench ... the upstairs artist's studio ...
- The upstairs artist's studio.
- The upstairs artist's studio.
- Private balcony ... abutting the artist's studio.
- Looking in at the studio from the main balcony upstairs.
- The main balcony ... upstairs ... abutting the artist's studio.
Exterior Pics
- Approaching the artist's residence ... from just the other side of the winter creek.
- Looking down over gardens and Malacatos valley from the upstairs balcony (next to the art-studio).
- Beautiful flower spread over the little roof section abutting the upstairs art-studio.
- Looking out towards the rear of the property ... in the direction of the irrigation canal.
- Looking into the rock-gardens at the rear of home ... and one of the two 2,500L irrigation tanks.
- Looking across the lawn of the ground floor patio area.
- Right next to the winter creek ... checking out some incredible mosaic work.
- Right next to the winter creek ... checking out some incredible mosaic work.
- Flowers adorn this residence ... almost anywhere it's possible for them to be.
- Looking across the access-road ...down towards the vegetable/fruit gardens (and orange-grove).
- Looking across the access-road ...down towards the vegetable/fruit gardens (and orange-grove).
- The rockery gardens immediately abutting the ground level patio area.
- Looking up at the residence ... from the access-road and entrance.
- Looking across the access-road ...down towards the vegetable/fruit gardens (and orange-grove).
- Looking towards the residence ... from a distance ... on the access-road.