Interior & Grounds

Casa Padronale

Entrance Hall: A stylish welcome, with a handsome rug on old terracotta tiles and a fine painted armoire.

Library/Study: Shelves full of books, a desk with a view, plenty of soft armchairs in which to curl up with a novel – what more could you want?

Sitting Room: A large double aspect room, with French doors and a traditional tiled woodburning stove.

Dining Room: A lovely family room with a high level fireplace for winter cosiness, and a table that seats 14

Kitchen: All the necessary culinary requirements, conveniently sited next to the dining room.

Living/Playroom: Heaven for visiting children, packed with the books that the owner loved as a girl, and when reading palls, a satellite TV.

Bedroom 1: A guest bedroom with two queen sized beds and an en suite bathroom

First Floor

2 Double Bedrooms: Generous and comfortable, with colourwashed walls, antiques, paintings and en suite bathrooms.

1 Double Bedroom

1 Twin Bedroom

These two rooms share a bathroom and are perfect family accommodation.

Bersagliere

An intimate hideaway for two, this first floor apartment is wonderfully sunny and spacious, with stupendous views.

Sitting Room: A light expansive room with a sofa each to prevent squabbles about cosy fireside lounging. Equipped with TV and stereo for CD’s.

Kitchen: A modern, functional, well-equipped kitchen, with a nostalgic nod to the past in the shape of one or two articles of traditional Tuscan farm kitchen furniture.

Bedroom: A huge dual aspect room with a pale terracotta floor and beamed ceiling. It has an en suite bathroom.

By throwing open their common entrance doors, this apartment can be used in combination with the following:

Vespa

A first floor apartment for four, with views across the legendary garden to distant hills. The interior is warm and inviting, with pale dappled russet walls, original floor tiles and ceiling beams, and lovely pieces of antique furniture

Sitting Room: A large relaxed room, with ample seating including a delicious sleigh-bed. It has a TV and stereo cd player.

Kitchen/ dining Room: A spacious, high-ceilinged room, with a traditional table-height fireplace in which to roast chestnuts or toast marshmallows, and views of the lovely Tuscan countryside.

Bedroom 1: Decorated with soothing textiles the colour of olive leaves in the wind, this double room has an en suite bathroom.

Bedroom 2: A twin room, given authenticity with traditional country furniture.

Bathroom

Beco

The sitting/dining room of this four-person apartment is spacious enough to accommodate a party and the kitchen is exceptionally well-equipped, making it a pleasure to cater for a crowd. The perfect headquarters for a family reunion or important birthday.

Living/Dining Room: The visitor enters straight into this vast dual aspect room, dominated by a sizeable and handsome fireplace.

Kitchen: Lots of space, a sociable farmhouse table and marble worktops distinguish this welcoming room, where the ambitious cook has a multiplicity of hobs and ovens to play with. There is a table-level fireplace inviting a spot of diy spontaneous cookery - mushroom roasting or steak broiling.

Bedroom 1: A large double room, from whose comfortable bed you can feast your eyes on the Tuscan landscape. It has an en suite bathroom.

Bedroom 2: A twin room with a cute painted antique bedside chest of drawers. This bedroom has an en suite bathroom.

Fonte

This two-person apartment is the most recent addition to this microscosmic haven, with spacious rooms whose view is of a bandit’s castle and mountains. It is decorated throughout in a glowing terracotta glaze.

Sitting Room: A light-filled dual aspect room with great views, walls covered in paintings and a charming painted sideboard.

Kitchen/Dining Room: Sit at the table and feast your eyes on the Tuscan countryside.

Bedroom: A lovely double aspect room, windows wreathed by vines, with a magnificent double sleigh bed as its centrepiece and an en suite bathroom.

Ronda

A very special six-person apartment, filled with family antiques and thoughtful decorative touches.

Sitting Room: Dominated by a huge traditional Tuscan fireplace, this laid back summery room has plenty of comfortable seating gathered around a Persian rug.

Kitchen/Dining Room: With a view out to the pretty entrance loggia, this is a casual, sociable room.

Bedroom 1: Completely dominated by a wild phantasy of an antique wooden double bed, resting on a pair of ferocious guardian gryphons, this room looks into the courtyard scented in spring by soothing wafts of linden blossom.

Bedroom 2: A very Italian room with a simple traditional double bed and mirrored dressing perfectly placed to catch the morning light.

Bedroom 3: A simple twin bedroom with a wonderfully baroque dressing-table mirror.

Bathroom: All the bedrooms share a bathroom

Tiglio

A four-person apartment with West views on one side and looking into the courtyard on the other.

Sitting/Dining Room: Arranged on a spice-coloured Moroccan rug, a sofa and armchairs are gathered around the large fireplace. The table is placed to catch the evening light and open views.

Kitchen: A simple country kitchen, the walls decorated with ceramics, and a solid oak farmhouse table for casual meals.

Bedroom 1: A simple double bedroom with West views.

Bedroom 2: A twin room with West views.

Bathroom