00:01Hello, Bali Interiors. I'm Celine. This is our house, Maté. Come and take a peek in our paradise.
00:17I came to Bali six years ago to do an internship at Gaia Ceramic for eight months.
00:22And then I came back home to Switzerland and I said to my partner every day that I wanted to
00:28come and live in Bali.
00:29It took a while, but during Covid we came here for three months and we rented that house.
00:34So we stayed here for three months and I think after two weeks we went to see the owner of
00:39the house,
00:39the architect of the place, and we asked if the house was for sale and it was indeed.
00:43So we decided to leave everything in Switzerland and come and live here in Bali.
00:48The house has been built 23 years ago. It doesn't look like, it looks very, I mean still, it's still
00:54in a beautiful shape.
00:55I think it's 350 by six or something. So it's not a big house.
01:08This is a very small house and we took it as it was. I guess at first we wanted to
01:13build our house and design exactly what we wanted.
01:15But then, well, we had that small house and we realized that we don't need more to live.
01:19Those two spaces, well, the living area, we didn't change much.
01:24The only thing is the floor was lifted up when we came.
01:29Now we put some chairs, but it's actually a floor that you can lift up and you can sit like
01:34a Japanese style.
01:35On the other side, what we did is we opened, we put some glass so it would be more light
01:41and we could see more of the view.
01:43Basically here, that space, it's quite untouched. It's just a question of decoration.
01:48We found chairs and we found some kind of carpet here and there, some old furniture that you find a
01:54bit everywhere in Bali.
01:56For that space, it's just very simple, just a little bit of decoration.
02:04So when we came here, we did two renovations.
02:07So here there was a wall and because, of course, at the beginning, that house was just that.
02:12And this had been added a few years later, but they kept the wall here and there was just a
02:17little window here.
02:19And one day during the second renovation, I called my husband and I said, we should take that down and
02:27have something more open.
02:28And so there was a goudang, like a small house outside that was really deteriorating.
02:35But the wood, the doors were made out of hulin.
02:38So we took it back and we made the counter with it.
02:42So we bought this, but this is just the reclaimed wood of the abandoned place outside.
02:52So another major change we did was the bathroom.
02:55It was completely closed at first, actually, just all this was the wall out of stones.
03:00Actually, in the first renovation, we opened it all.
03:02We also had a blinder, but then we ended up with the windows again.
03:06And the shower was down here.
03:08So this is actually a hole that goes one meter deep.
03:11And we were showering down there with the shower here.
03:14That was very cute, but we were splashing water everywhere.
03:17So then we decided to add this hulin deck and we have the shower just here behind.
03:24So we really showering outside.
03:37This level, because it was Airbnb, well, it was for rent.
03:40There were two bedrooms and the walls were closed in between.
03:44There were two doors.
03:45We opened everything.
03:46We have the bed made with the same details than the kitchen.
03:51Well, we did two major things here.
03:53First year, when we came here, we found that it was very romantic, that everything was opened.
03:58But then it turned out that when there's wind and rain, all the rain is coming in.
04:04So then we found it less romantic.
04:06So the year after, we added some blinders here.
04:09But then when it was raining, everything was dark.
04:12So we decided finally to put glass and we closed everything with glass.
04:16So we can just have the windows sliding like that and close everything.
04:33Originally, we found that place with this extension, this terrace, but originally it was not existing.
04:40I guess every person who stayed here long enough added some things.
04:43But what we just did is that we changed the roof.
04:46We put the same plastic done in the kitchen and some lamps and also the blinders.
04:52Because here we have all these rice fields in front.
04:55And when there's a lot of wind, all the wind comes here and the rain would really just come completely
05:00in.
05:01So we put the blinders.
05:02This table, we found it well.
05:03We see them on the road, all this wood, these beautiful trunks.
05:07And we just asked if they could add, we asked if they could add the metallic feet.
05:12And the chairs, there was one prototype there.
05:14They're beautiful.
05:15So, well, we keep them.
05:24Okay, so this is our house and our studio is just a few steps further.
05:28Come with me.
05:33We whisper in the blues, and people pay some worries.
05:41But I'm just here with you.
05:44The frost could touch the rooftops, but it'll never touch more.
05:51Originally, I made this studio in the idea that it would be a kind of a co-working space for
05:57people who know about ceramic
05:58and who need to find a place where they can create, where I provide all the facilities.
06:05Slowly, we started to give some classes also because, of course, not everybody knows already about ceramic.
06:11So if people wanted to learn and then be able to use the space.
06:14And next to that, we started to have some restaurants asking for plates and cups and things for their restaurants.
06:21So we started a little production.
06:24So now we've hired some people to help also to make production.
06:29We did the renovation in two times.
06:31First time was just this one here.
06:33And then we started to be a bit, well, just not enough space, not enough shelves.
06:38And yes, so now it's been like that for more than a year.
06:41And it's just enough.
06:59Thank you Valley Interiors for taking a peek in our paradise.
07:02See you soon.
07:11See you soon.
