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Design your Marbella villa interior to your own preferences and make the most of the year-round sun in the Costa Del Sol. Wherever you decide to build your villa in Spain, natural light, space, tall ceilings, and the textures of real natural materials will make it a home.

Green roofs provide very effective thermal insulation and act as an acoustic muffler. They offer good sound insulation and high durability to protect the damp proof membrane. Good for energy-efficient, environmentally friendly, sustainable living, green roofs also provide a habitat for birds and insects in urban environments, as well as improving local air quality and storing rainwater to alleviate pressure on urban drainage systems.

Enjoy the gorgeous Spanish climate with shaded terraces, scented plants and pergolas. Outdoor design and landscaping is a big part of your villa’s look and feel, so needs to be carefully considered during the design process.

Fragrant plants provide a natural scent in your garden and terrace, native species make for zero management, while deciduous climbing plants offer shade in summer but not in winter. Eco Vida Homes recommends palm trees, grapevines, avocados, lemon and orange trees, bananas, figs, almonds, and cherries for a beautiful Spanish garden.

Balmy evenings for romance, breakfast with the sunrise, a quiet spot for contemplation, or a winter sun trap? Eco Vida Homes believes in creating spaces for the different moments of the day, so it’s important to consider what those moments are for you and your lifestyle.

Enjoy the perfect climate and cook outside, keeping your interior cool in the hot weather. Whether you’re keen to include more barbecues in your life, or simply want to make some coffee with the full view of the Mediterranean in front of you, villas in Spain designed with an outdoor kitchen in mind really stand out.

One of the most common visions for a villa in Spain includes a big open room for cooking, where owners can enjoy a glass of wine while chatting with family and friends. Food can be prepared for a shaded area outside for dining al fresco overlooking the garden, pool, or sea. Great Marbella villa interior design considers the Costa Del Sol’s warm climate as standard.

It’s just common sense to design your villa around the Andalucian sun. Nowadays, some form of renewable energy is obligatory, and harnessing the Spanish sun with photovoltaic panels is good for an energy-efficient, environmentally friendly, sustainable home.

Systems for reusing rainwater in Spain can be underground or overground. They can be connected to automatic irrigation systems to water your garden in summer or used to flush toilets. Choose a designer who can build rainwater harvesting into the blueprints of your home for optimal collection.

Great Marbella villa interior design starts with the kitchen, and yours simply must be designed around you and how you use it. Eco Vida Homes supports you in your choice of kitchen and will offer eco-friendly solutions to suit your taste. “Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it.” - Franco Moschino

The beauty of a well-designed bathroom in Spain is that it can face the views you’d most like to look at from the comfort of your tub. In our opinion, the interior design of your bathroom should reflect your own tastes, while aiding the eco-design in keeping the room at an adequate temperature.

Traditionally, Andalusian patios are internal courtyards, perhaps with cloisters, a trickling fountain and scented plants. Spanish patios should be cool places to relax in summer, with good consideration given to the aspect, views and light.

Offering green carbon-free energy supplied by nature, wind turbines work with a battery storage system and inverter to provide electricity and heating all year round. While there are other methods of powering your villa in Spain, wind turbines are good for energy-efficient, sustainable living.

Villa windows in Spain are no longer the energy efficiency weak points they once were. These days, window placement, sizing, and specification are critical to energy-efficient villa design in Spain. Glass walls can bring the outside in, while sliding or folding glass panels create flexible inside/outside spaces and expand your living room. Styling will alter the look and feel of your house so choose with care. Modern high-spec windows can even cope with harsh direct sunlight should the circumstances require it, with shading, triple-glazed, argon-filled e-coated... but we would normally recommend focusing on ample shade.

Now the “sun tax” has been repealed and self-sufficient homeowners can now work in conjunction with on-grid energy-efficient than using straight electricity, resulting in lower electricity bills and lower carbon emissions. Air source heat pumps in Spain might be expensive upfront, but they’re a good choice for heating an eco-home and saving money in the long run.

Eco Vida Homes can help you pick the perfect material for your taste. Natural Stone? Wood? Ceramic? Porcelain? Non-slip? It's your vision!

There’s nothing like real fire as a centrepiece to a room for a warm homely feeling and a focus for the interior design. Choose from an open log fire, biomass, or gas, all of which can augment the hot water or underfloor heating system.

For hot water and/or space heating. Air source heat pumps are about four times more efficient than using straight electric solutions. Choose an air source heat pump for lower electricity bills and lower carbon emissions.

Cameras, guards and keeping a close eye on your home are all good sense for keeping your villa in Spain safe, but what if your house could look after itself? Strong gates and fences, exterior security doors and toughened windows will all do their bit to keep uninvited guests from entering your home.

There’s more to a great swimming pool than simply filling up a hole in the ground. You need to consider the size, depth, shape, tile colour... Whether you need a shelf for sitting underwater or to insulate the pool for autumn swimming, Eco Vida Homes is your guide to the perfect swimming pool for your villa.

Textures give your home warmth and personality and should be considered at the design stage, not as an afterthought. You might decide to work with a good interior designer in Marbella to get the textures right, or maybe you could have fun with choosing some materials yourself.

The ultimate winter comfort. Heated flooring ensures you stay warm in the colder months and heats the house itself, rather than the space inside. Underfloor heating is more comfortable than other heating systems because it creates an effect similar to being warmed by the sun.

Your home in Spain will benefit from an interior design that features spaces for different moments of the day. Somewhere to sit quietly for moments of contemplation, a media room for TV and films and a snug space with lots of cushions and a real fire for settling down with a good book.

Design a villa in Spain that makes it simple to re-use your greywater from showers to flush toilets and irrigate the garden. Good eco-design like this will not only make your home more energy-efficient, it’ll save you money on your water bill too!

Insulation is key to comfort and energy efficiency. Getting the insulation of your villa right will result in a home that’s warm in winter and cool in summer while slashing your energy bills. Eco Vida Homes favours rock wool and polystyrene in the homes we design with our clients.

While passive security should be built into your villa design from the get-go, taking it to the next level for the protection of your family is just good sense. Leave room for security cameras, motion detectors, silent and/or audible alarms and outdoor lighting in your villa design.