The open living pavilion — carved teak, deep sofas, colour against whitewash

The house

Built long before anyone was in a hurry

The pavilions are reclaimed Javanese Joglos — teak structures carved a century ago, taken down beam by beam, and raised again here around a pool and a garden.

A canopy bed under white netting, a painted Javanese panel above the headboard

A second bedroom — teak wardrobe, cool linen

Four bedrooms

Each one its own weather

Two rooms look at the pool, two into the green. Canopy nets, good cotton, hand-painted panels, and air-conditioning that actually means it. No two rooms match, which is rather the point.

A river-stone bathroom — carved basin, ladder of green towels, morning light

Four baths

Stone, water, light

Every bedroom has its own bathroom in carved river stone — open to the sky in places, warm underfoot everywhere. Showers you remember after you fly home.

The dining table set beside the pool under the pavilion

The kitchen — long counter, everything where it should be

The table

Dinner happens here

A full kitchen for the cooks among you, and a long table by the water for everyone else. Ask a day ahead and a private chef shops the morning market and cooks in — Indonesian, or whatever you’re homesick for.

Evening inside the Joglo — lamplight on old timber walls

After dark

Evenings under the beams

Lamplight on hundred-year-old timber. Someone finds the record player. The pond keeps its own hours.

The particulars

What the house holds

4 bedrooms — 2 poolside, 2 garden
4 river-stone bathrooms
Open-air Joglo living pavilion
8×3 m pool, walk-in stone steps
Fish pond & mature garden
Full kitchen · long poolside table
Smart TV & fast wifi under the thatch
Safe, cot & high chair on request

Kept daily

The people who come with the house

Four staff keep Villa Aniri — housekeeping every morning, the gardener at first light, security through the night, and a villa attendant who has an answer for nearly everything: drivers, reservations, a surfboard by nine, a birthday cake by four. In-villa massage and a yoga teacher on the deck are a day’s notice away.

They’ve kept this house for years. You’ll notice it in the folded corners of things, and in how rarely you have to ask twice.

Good to know

The practical page

Check-in 14:00 · check-out 11:00
Sleeps 8 — or 16 with Villa Sukacita next door
Nightly from IDR 6.831.000
Airport: 30–45 minutes by car
Cancellation terms shown before you confirm
Not suited to unaccompanied children under 4 — the pond and pool are open

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