Aruna Villa

Four-bedroom villa built around floor-to-ceiling glass and a long lap pool. Restrained palette: white walls, oak joinery, dark steel framing the openings. Every bedroom gets direct outdoor access. The layout favours airflow and shade over scale, which keeps it cool without leaning on air-con all day.

Aruna Villa fits four bedrooms onto a 200 square metre plot by stacking the house over two white-rendered storeys around the pool. The renders show black steel glazing set in a tight grid across the ground floor, timber slatted screens over the upper windows and a curved balcony with a glass balustrade that softens the corner of the top floor. Bougainvillea is drawn spilling over the walls.

Inside, the living room drops into a sunken lounge under a double-height wall of glass, with a planted strip behind the television so the garden carries indoors. The kitchen tucks beneath a sculpted white staircase, and a long timber dining table runs beside it under woven pendants. The bedrooms take a softer line: backlit arched niches behind the beds, wardrobes faced in arched rattan cane panels, and a freestanding bath in the main ensuite.

Outdoor living is split across two levels in this Tropical Minimalist design for Bali. A timber pergola shades a barbecue counter and a long outdoor dining table beside the pool, and a cushioned daybed sits in its own arched alcove. On the roof, an L-shaped bench sofa under a second pergola looks out over the trees.

• Black steel grid glazing against white render
• Sunken lounge under a double-height wall of glass
• Backlit arched niches behind the beds
• Arched rattan cane wardrobe doors in the bedrooms
• Outdoor kitchen and dining under a timber pergola
• Roof lounge with bench seating beneath a pergola