Would you live 59-feet off the jungle floor, Swiss-Family-Robinson-style in an Indonesian tree house? The Hardy family does. John and Cynthia Hardy wanted to maximize their outdoor living experience and had a 110-foot long, single story home built from tropical hardwood in the trees of the Ayung River valley...
The view! The swing!
The massive kitchen in the trees.
We love the saffron and burgandy color palette — and who thought there would be egg chairs in the trees? And the swing! Read the full story of the Hardy's home and new work running their ecologically friendly International School: In Bali, a Home Nestled Among Rice Paddies and Trees and all the pictures in the slideshow.
Images: Martin Westlake for The New York Times
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Comments (21)
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Me Likey.
I also need that red shaggy rug at the foot of the bed...
Fab, although critters in the house would scare me.
It's a fairy tale palace! The article says they have a staff of 15 and I'm not surprised...
I need to live here.
I'm with dmh... whattaboutthesnakes!!!!!!!!!
monica...yeah, but a staff of 15 in indonesia comes to roughly just $750 a month
and two words: dengue fever
just kidding...the place is nice
irony is, it's almost always the expats who outdo the locals
Dengue fever (the illness) = BAD
Dengue Fever (the band) = Good!
Dang...only $750/month for all that staff?!?! I may move to Bali now...
Wow, I am in love. Except I don't want to ever live in a house that requires a staff. A housekeeper would be nice though.
The place looks very nice but.... $1 million to build the main house? wow I won't lie, I'd love to live there lol
Interesting how the younger children are conveniently kept at bay in a separate five-story, parent-free pagoda.
LOVE IT. And I almost spit hot chocolate through my nose when I saw the Egg chairs. Sheer brilliance. Altho I do share some of the sentiments above regarding snakes, mosquitoes, and in my case spiders.
Stunning! Just brought back all my Swiss Family Robinson fantasies...how fun to live there!
What about bad weather? I'd hate to get that beautiful place wet.
Don't forget centepedes, Modfan! They're the worst....
Having experienced a tropical island thru Hawaii (more isolated, though, and I'm sure not as tropical as Bali).... the mosquitoes suck bigtime. There weren't any snakes, but little geckoes were everywhere, and actually a welcome presence, indoors and out. Good insect control, and they're cute and harmless.
And, the humidity does bring on its own problems, but the beauty is worth it.
I'm moving in.
I am sure about the egg chairs. They look pretty alien in this setting. Maybe a darker color would help them blend in?
Dreamy!
wow. want.
Beautiful, would love to know how they keep those rugs from mildewing in the tropical weather.
Very nice. Dreamlike to be living like that. Although I don't give it ANY points for their lounge room where those 2 yellow scooped chairs are. Take them out and look what you're left with? Drabness ! Their whole look DEPENDS on those 2 chairs in the lounge room - and what is the meaning of that drab shabby looking pale grey lounge? Seems comfy but looks horrid.
Overall of course it's a nice dreamy place but I still see places that need perfecting. I don't believe in hinging a room's interior sucess on one or a couple of articles. To me that is interior design FALURE.