Sustainable Jungle Wooden House & Ceramicist Studio Tour _ A Peek in Paradise S7 E5 _ Bali Interiors

Hello, Bali Interiors. I'm Celine. This is our house, Mate. Come and take a peek in our paradise. I came to Bali six years ago to do an internship at Gaia Ceramic for eight months. And then I came back home to Switzerland and I said to my partner every day that I wanted to come and live in Bali. It took a while, but during COVID we came here for three months and we rented that house. So we stayed here for three months and I think after two weeks we went to see the owner of the house, the architect of the place, and we asked if the house was for sale. And it was indeed. So we decided to leave everything in Switzerland and come and live here in Bali. The house has been built 23 years ago. It doesn't look like it. It's still in a beautiful shape. I think it's 350 by 6 or something. So it's not a big house. This is a very small house and we took it as it was. I guess at first we wanted to build our house and design exactly what we wanted. But then, well, we had that small house and we realized that we don't need more to live. Those two spaces, well, the living area, we didn't change much. The only thing is the floor was lifted up when we came. Now we put some chairs, but it's actually a floor that you can lift up and you can sit like a Japanese style. On the other side, what we did is we opened. We put some glass so it would be more light and we could see more of the view. Basically here, that space, it's quite untouched. It's just a question of decoration. We found chairs and we found some kind of carpet here and there, some old furniture that you find a bit everywhere in Bali. For that space, it's just very simple, just a little bit of decoration. When we came here, we did two renovations. Here there was a wall and because, of course, at the beginning that house was just that. This had been added a few years later. But they kept the wall here and there was just a little window here. One day during the second renovation, I called my husband and I said, we should take that down and have something more open. There was a gudang, like a small house outside that was really deteriorating. But the wood, the doors were made out of ulin. We took it back and we made the counter with it. We bought this, but this is just the reclaimed wood of the abandoned place outside. Another major change we did was the bathroom. It was completely closed at first, actually. All this was the wall out of stones. Actually, in the first renovation, we opened it all. We also had a blinder, but then we ended up with the windows again. The shower was down here. This is actually a hole that goes one meter deep. We were showering down there with the shower here. That was very cute, but we were splashing water everywhere. Then we decided to add this ulin deck and we have the shower just here behind. So we're really showering outside. This level, because it was Airbnb, it was for rent. There were two bedrooms and the walls were closed in between. There were two doors. We opened everything. We have the bed made with the same details as the kitchen. We did two major things here. First year, when we came here, we found that it was very romantic that everything was open. But then it turned out that when there's wind and rain, all the rain is coming in. So then we found it less romantic. So the year after, we added some blinders here. But then when it was raining, everything was dark. So we decided finally to put glass and we closed everything with glass. So we can just have the windows sliding like that and close everything. Originally, we found that place with this extension, this terrace, but originally it was not existing. I guess every person who stayed here long enough added some things. But what we just did is that we changed the roof. We put the same plastic down in the kitchen and some lamps and also the blinders. Because here we have all these rice fields in front and when there's a lot of wind, all the wind comes here and the rain would really just come completely in. So we put the blinders. This table, we found it well. We see them on the road, all this wood, these beautiful trunks, and we just asked if they could add. We asked if they could add the metallic feet. And the chairs, there was one prototype there. They're beautiful, so we keep them. Okay, so this is our house and our studio is just a few steps further. Come with me. I'm just here with you. The frost could touch the rooftops, but it'll never touch my heart. Originally, I made this studio in the idea that it would be kind of a co-working space for people who know about ceramic and who need to find a place where they can create, where I provide all the facilities. Slowly, we started to give some classes also because, of course, not everybody knows already about ceramics, so if people wanted to learn and then be able to use the space. And next to that, we started to have some restaurants asking for plates and cups and things for their restaurants. So we started a little production. So now we've hired some people to help also to make production. We did the renovation in two times. First time was just this one here. And then we started to be a bit, well, just not enough space, not enough shelves. And yes, so now it's been like that for more than a year and it's just enough. Thank you, Bali Interiors, for taking a peek in our paradise. See you soon.