Casa Güímar: A New-Build in the Hills, Made to feel like home from day one
In the hills above Güímar, the mornings arrive slowly. The light comes over the ridge, finds the white volumes of a new-build villa, and pours through windows that were, not long ago, holes in a concrete shell. This is the story of how that shell became a home — for a Belgian couple who decided that their next chapter would be written on this island, full time.
The brief
They did not ask for a showroom. They asked for calm: a house that would feel settled from the first night, hold two lives and their routines — work, training, long dinners — and never once feel like a holiday rental wearing a costume. Two storeys, a master suite, a proper bureau, a fitness room, and the golden rule of the whole project: nothing that echoes.
The choices
New-builds hand you a gift and a challenge in the same box: everything is possible, and nothing exists. We answered with texture. Microcement in the bathrooms — seamless, soft underfoot, and beautifully suited to this climate — so the ensuite reads as one quiet surface from shower to wall. Built-in cabinetry through both floors, drawn wall by wall, so storage disappears into architecture instead of standing around as furniture.
The bureau got the same seriousness as the living room: a real desk wall, cable-tidy joinery, light that works at 9 am and 9 pm. The fitness room got rubber underfoot, mirrors, and — crucially — a door good enough that the rest of the house never hears it.
The details we argued about (lovingly)
The wardrobe handles — sampled three times, because hands touch them forty times a day.
The exact sand color of the microcement, mixed against the morning light rather than the showroom's.
Curtain fall: one centimetre off the floor, everywhere, without exception.
A pantry deep enough for the serious cooking this kitchen was clearly going to see.
The feeling
The couple moved in with suitcases, not boxes — everything else was already home. That first evening, the house did the thing we design for: it went quiet around them. No echo, no to-do list humming in the corner, just warm light on timber and the hills going blue outside.
A house is finished when you stop noticing it — and start noticing your life in it.
Casa Güímar is one of the homes in our portfolio we return to often, because it holds everything we believe about interiors on this island: climate-proof materials, joinery drawn to the wall, and calm as the actual deliverable. See more of our projects, or read about our interior design approach.
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