Casa Sunshine, Port d’Andratx

From first light to the last of the sun.

The house faces the bay and the ridge at once, so the sun arrives early over the water and leaves late behind the mountains. Every principal room opens to it — the kitchen through a single wide window, the bedrooms through their own terraces.

Solar on the roof. Underfloor heat below. The light works for the house, not only in it.

Where twelve sit.

Terrace to table is one step. The pergola dining sits on the pool edge with the harbour beneath it; inside, the kitchen island and the long table look out through the same glass. A food lift runs from the garage to the roof, so the evening moves up as the sun moves down.

Guests arrive by the double garage and the lift. Nobody carries anything up a hill.

Outside, inside, above.

An infinity pool and heated jacuzzi on the terrace. An indoor pool with a swim trainer, sauna, steam room and treatment room below. A roof terrace over all of it, with the whole bay for a horizon. Three ways to be in the water, and one place to watch it.

Full privacy. No overlooking.

And then the harbour lights.

Port d’Andratx is five minutes down the hill: the marina, the restaurants along the quay, the fish market on a Saturday. Palma is thirty-five minutes, the airport forty. From the terrace, the town is a ring of light around black water.