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My favorite moment is in the morning at 6:00,
6:30, with the sunrise.
The light is very beautiful.
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We will see the sunrise.
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So we are in a Caribbean French island called Guadeloupe.
I didn't know what even was Guadeloupe.
So it was a surprise for me.
The first time I arrived in Guadeloupe
and I saw the beach, the nature, the waterfalls, I fell in love.
So that's why I think we still here.
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The idea was having a house that makes me feel like on holiday.
It's a real paradise, really.
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Not everybody knows about Guadeloupe.
It's a little small island near Dominican Republic.
It's very slow life, like all in the Caribbean, I think.
Everything is close, but we don't have a lot of tourists.
We go hiking and swimming.
We live in nature.
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So we bought this house four years ago.
This is Villa Capeli.
Capeli is the-- my grandfather's name.
This shape is an octagon, so sometimes that is rare.
This house was built in 1973, I think seven months of renovation
in the main house, really, the big renovation.
We are really close to the beach.
We live in a cliff, so we don't have anything in front of us,
only the beach.
We have a very good quality of life.
We have the beach nearby, so we can walk with the dogs.
Spending all day in the beach, hiking,
being in nature, the weather, everything,
I really liked living here.
I really like the quality of living on an island.
I'm from Spain, so I live all my life there.
Then I came to Paris and I met John,
and we are both physical therapists.
So we would like to have an experience,
and we found this island that we didn't know.
Yeah, we came from six months, and after 13 years
we are still here.
But this is our home now.
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So when you arrive to the house, you have the main door.
It's a Moroccan door.
And when you come in, you have the kitchen.
So the most hard was the kitchen, the renovation.
The kitchen was very small.
Anna loves to cook, so we have to do
the best kitchen that we got.
So we think a lot.
And we destroy everything at the beginning.
We built this concrete island.
You can share the view.
You can talk with your friends and see
the ocean at the same time.
We put a lot of love in here.
And we also put a lot of wood from the rainforest from here
to work with natural materials from the island.
So we brought a lot of things from our travels.
So like the door that I say before, it's from Morocco.
We use some lights from Bali in bamboo.
Everything that you want to buy, you have to send by boats.
And it takes a lot of time.
Like, sometimes for buying a tiles,
you have to wait for five months.
You can do a project like in three months.
It's impossible.
So I had time to choose everything that I liked.
This is the guest bathroom.
We changed everything on it.
It was really, really old.
And also, we bought the tiles in Morocco--
I did with John.
I'm very proud of it.
But it was very difficult because these tiles
from Morocco, the Zellige, are handmade,
so they are not too the same.
Now, we're going to in the primary room.
So the morning when we wake up, we just open the window
and we smell, and we see the ocean in front of you.
And this is really, really nice in the morning.
We design all the windows here with local wood
to have more lights and to have the feeling
that you are always outside.
Jasmine, our girl, she is five years old.
And she matched very, very well in this house.
So we have three dogs.
We rescue and we found in the streets.
So it's our family.
Our babies.
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We have a lot of things from our travels too.
This is from-- we bought it in Mexico, but it's from Bali.
This is for Finland.
This is from Mexico too.
We think a lot before we put something new at home.
Nothing came here casually.
[laughs] Everything have a little detail, a little stories.
This is us.
This house is us.
Everything has been chosen for us.
It's your space, your safe space.
This is my house, so my soul is on it.
Our travels-- I always been very creative.
I did a master in interior design.
There are a lot of things that I designed in the house.
I really like to work with natural materials, really
stone, wood.
In each bedroom, we have always something special, some details,
old stuff, something that you brought from a travels
for a trip.
You have always something to learn from the others,
other cultures.
It inspires me a lot.
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This is coconuts from the garden.
We can take--
We will drink later.
We can take and drink coconut water.
It's really good.
This is the favorite place.
Yeah, this is Ram's favorite place.
And this is was a present from Ana.
It's a-- it's a bar.
So we spend a lot of time here, talk with friends,
and having a nice time.
We designed it, and we ask someone to--
Create.
--to create it.
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So you can see really quiet, not a street nearby.
And you all have the beach just in front.
So we enjoy a lot the quiet moments.
So right now, we go to the guest house.
To the beach bungalow.
Yeah.
A place that we rent.
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So the difference between the main house and the bungalow
are the colors.
We changed a lot of things into the bungalow.
Everything was pink.
We tried to do something completely different.
This window was here at the first time when we arrived here.
The bathroom was-- is behind.
So we changed and--
And a lot of privacy.
Yeah.
So we opened this window to do a bar with local wood.
This is Poirier, it's another kind of wood
from-- from Guadeloupe.
So we create this system to open this window
because this wood is tropical wood,
and it's really, really heavy.
So we thought, put a stone that help us to open.
So we drill the stone, make the system with the rope.
And right now, it's really easy to open this window.
It was a surfboard from a friend who used to live here,
and it broke, so she gave me.
I'm only on the design.
I make the system from all the electricity.
Everything that it's technical is him.
I like the creative part.
So everything that it's electricity, plants, measures,
everything, that's his job.
But we work very good together.
Amazing.
We keep really close to our neighbors.
We really like to receive friends.
We are-- there is a lot of people always in this house.
Cheers.
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You can really meet people from here
and be really in the culture.
It's not easy to find your place, but when you find it,
then you can be very happy.
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I feel in harmony when I'm in this house.
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