Farmhouse via del giardino, 276, Stiava, Massarosa

N155Z - (Stiava - Massarosa)
Farm-house, 10 rooms, 213 smq, garden and olive grove

We are in a charming corner of Tuscany where the house is located in the middle of a hill overlooking the valley and discreetly inserted into the landscape with its brick-colored facades.
It was a rural building standing on two floors, the lower one housed the stable while in the upper one there were the real domestic environments.
The current owners, thanks to a painstaking and loving restoration jobs, have found a balance between the pre-existing and the new creating a place where you live in the tradition and at the same time enjoying a sense of familiarity and a quite atmosphere.

From the main entrance we enter into the living area where the intimacy of spaces, colors and furnishings envelop us and pamper us.
A dining room and an intimate sitting room where the terracotta floor and exposed beams infuse warmth with the wood-burning fireplace. The attention to detail is also clear in the structural elements such as the niche to which the project has been able to give new functions.
The rooms, which were originally the stable and the woodshed, now houses an original kitchen, intimate and welcoming. A convivial space enhanced by the 4-burner cast iron AGA "old English style" stove, the beautiful marble sink and where the old manger has been transformed into a useful storage space.
Here the delicate colours dominate the scene and we find them in the accessories: from cups, to the refrigerator, to rich decorative elements and handmade ceramics. The craft’s needles are well organized with original aesthetic and functional solutions.
The bathroom, which serves the living area - with window and shower - has an extreme accuracy in details and finishes and is connected to a functional technical room where the optimization of space allowed to accommodate the washing machine, the dryer, the heating system and several shelves.

The stone staircase with iron railing connects the two floors of the house and is embellished by a collection of straw hats that makes show on an ancient clothes hanger.

The sleeping area, with romantic notes in the choice of antique canopy beds, has two bedrooms which are accessed through two passage rooms.
In a passage room, the larger one, an old vintage leather Chesterfield sofa dominates the scene along with a comfortable desk and an antique file cabinet, while the smaller passage room has been transformed into a functional walk-in closet.
In the windowed bathroom of the sleeping area you can see the most daring experiments, combining lamps, mirrors, frames, furniture, but above all inventing original solutions in stylistic terms.
The bathroom bathtub recalls the style of other times with an old tray and its taps also "old English style".
Terracotta floors and exposed beams to the ceilings characterize with their strong chromatism the sleeping area