Traditional
renovated residence
in Lefkes

The farmhouse when was originally built was at the suburbs of Leukes village. Now a days it is intergraded to the village. It stands next to the Agia Kyriaki church and the locals say that the upper part of the buildings was serving as a church in the past. It is built with a Corbelled Masonry System, which is quite unique. We have kept the original structure, a typical example of vernacular architecture of the Cycladic islands, as in most of our reconstructions, and add the elements that the new owners wanted to intergrade.

In the main level we have demolished the interior walls and have turned it to an open living – dining – kitchen area, but kept the original floors. The old kitchen with the wood oven has turned into a bathroom with the chimney of the oven to serve as skylight. The sinks out of marble stone were formerly basins for the animals to drink water. Inside an opening between living room and bedroom we have intergraded an energy fireplace with glass screens from both sides that is heating properly both areas.

In the garden we kept all the trees around like, the olives and almond trees, the mulberry trees, as well as the stone build basins by the well that the owners of the house used to wash their clothes.

In the lower level which was a wine cellar and the warehouse, we have created another bedroom and a bathroom that serves as a small guest house. We kept the corner fireplace, that was used for cheese manufacturing.

For the ceilings we used the old beams and combined them with local cane, in the same way the old ceilings would be constructed.