Cypress Ridge
Casa Solana
Overview
Casa Solana sits on the last building site before the ridge falls away to the sea. The brief was short and hard to meet: a house that disappears at midday and glows at dusk. The answer is a deep cantilevered roof in oiled cedar, carried on a spine of local limestone.
The plan is one long bar, a single room deep, so light crosses the whole house twice a day. Living, dining and kitchen run without a break along the west face behind a glass wall that slides fully into the stone. Bedrooms are on the upper floor, each with its own loggia.
The garden went in eighteen months before the house was finished, so the olives already read as though they were always there. Lavender, rosemary and cistus hold the lower terraces. The pool is set slightly off the center line, which sounds like a mistake until you stand in the living room and watch the water meet the horizon in a single line.
Inside the house
- The west range
- Living, dining and kitchen run as one room along the glass wall, sixty feet end to end. The wall slides fully into the stone, so in summer the range becomes a covered terrace.
- The bedroom floor
- Six bedrooms upstairs, each with its own loggia and its own outlook. The main suite takes the south corner, with a dressing room and a bath that looks straight down the coast.
- Below ground
- The wine room holds 1,400 bottles at a constant cellar temperature. Plant, laundry and staff quarters share the level, reached by a separate stair.
The house through a day
What comes with it
- 75 ft infinity pool with a sea-level edge
- Sliding glass wall to the west terrace
- Guest house with a separate entrance
- Wine room for 1,400 bottles
- Geothermal heating and cooling
- Staff quarters and covered parking for four
Around here
- Village bakery
- 7 min drive
- The marina
- 14 min drive
- Coast path trailhead
- 3 min drive
- Regional airport
- 35 min drive
Arrange to see Casa Solana.
Viewings are private and usually late in the day, when the light does the work. Tell us when you are on the coast.
Elena Marsh
Founder, acquisitions
Twenty years on this coast. She has walked every house on the list at four in the afternoon.
+1 (415) 555 0142The rest of the list
Coming SoonRidgeline
Cypress Ridge
$3.8M – $4.4M
A new house on the ridge, half glass pavilion and half stone base, finishing this fall.
- 5 bed
- 6 bath
- 7,200 sq ft
- 0.9 acre lot
For SaleVilla Aurelia
The Terraces
$3.2M – $3.7M
Three stone volumes stepped down an old terrace, joined by a glass walkway.
- 5 bed
- 5 bath
- 6,600 sq ft
- 0.72 acre lot
Under ContractThe Cypress House
Old Town
$2.1M – $2.4M
A compact house behind a screen of cypress, built around a shaded central court.
- 4 bed
- 4 bath
- 4,600 sq ft
- 0.44 acre lot