Sometime at the end of the nineteenth century, two people fell in love and decided to marry. The happy families decided to provide them their own home. The bride’s family provided the land, and the groom’s family came in with the money to build the house. This is how House no. 59 came into being. Judging by the size of the house, the couple had quite a few children. Confiscated by the socialist government after WWII, the house was turned into a workers’ resort, at the cost of deteriorating its inner structure. When we bought it, the house was in quite an unhappy state.

We decided to refurbish it according to its original features, and make it a family home again, as homage to the original owners – the young married couple from a hundred years ago. The project also included renovation of the original stonewalls (“gromače”) around the house - a specific feature of the island’s cultural tradition, as well as revitalization of old olive trees in the garden and in the nearby olive yard.