NAPLES, Fla. (Jan. 31, 2013) – The Girona, London Bay Homes’ newest furnished model home, is now open in Mediterra, Naples’ premier luxury golf and beach club community.
The three-bedroom villa home features interior design by Michael Scott of Romanza Interior Design in Naples and overlooks a marsh preserve in Cortile, a neighborhood of 46 estate and villa homesites. The floor plan is one of more than a dozen offered by London Bay Homes in the Cortile neighborhood. The maintenance-free villas in Cortile – which include pool service, landscaping and lawn care covered through the homeowners association – are now more than 60 percent sold.
The model features Leonardo travertine flooring, neutral background finishes and a color palette of sand, charcoal, rust and green accented with blue and coral in select rooms. Its Spanish architecture incorporates a terra cotta tile barrel roof, rustic brick paver walkway and an intimate landscaped entry courtyard featuring an Italianate fountain.
The Girona offers 3,526 square feet of air-conditioned living space, a dining room, great room and study. It has three full baths and a powder room and the model is shown with a pool, spa, full summer kitchen with a commercial-grade grill and optional three-car garage.
Scott introduces the travertine flooring at the home’s entry and continues it throughout the model’s main living areas and onto the pool deck. The technique emphasizes the Girona’s open floor plan as does its connection to al fresco spaces through sliding glass doors in the family room and nook and a French door in the master suite.
The great room features an eclectic mix of transitional furniture pieces in warm walnut brown wood tones and contemporary upholstery with medium-toned fabrics and leathers. A natural sisal area rug anchors the main seating area and floral draperies throughout echo the room’s sand, rust, green and grey hues. Wood beams accent the ceiling.
The kitchen offers a Sub-Zero beverage center and refrigerator, a 48-inch stainless steel Wolf range and a walk-in pantry. The room has Carrara granite countertops with a unique leather finish, light-toned wood cabinetry, a handmade tile backsplash above the range and a freestanding island.
The floor and furniture plans provide numerous gathering areas, accommodating four at the kitchen’s island breakfast bar, eight to 10 people at the dining room table and another six at the nook’s round table. Additional gathering spaces include the outdoor living areas and even the study, designed with a small sectional for late-night TV viewing and a walnut writing/computer desk.
The classic king-size four-poster mission-style bed in the master bedroom references the Girona’s architectural influences and has an upholstered headboard with bronze accents. Clay colored walls and a hand-finished hickory wood plank floor add warmth to the room; blonde woven raffia bedside chests and a sisal area rug introduce elements of nature, also echoed in shades of sea green, blue and sand.
The wood floor continues into his and her custom walk-in closets.
The English Victoria + Albert volcanic stone and resin tub, set in a windowed alcove, is the focal point of the master bath, which also has travertine floors, light wood stained vanities with polished Sicilian mocha-hued limestone tops, transitional crystal and metal light fixtures and a travertine-clad walk-in shower.
The Girona’s two guest suites have private full baths; one has a walk-in closet. One offers a queen-sized bed and a transitional design with a teal, rust and sand color palette. The second room has two twin beds and shades of pale green, coral and sand.
The model has 5,072 total square feet and is priced at $2,095,000, fully furnished.
Home and homesite packages in Cortile are priced from $1.2 million. Villa and estate floor plans range from 2,800 to more than 6,000 square feet of living space.
London Bay Homes, a leader in the Naples luxury home market for more than two decades, was one of only two companies named America’s Best Builder by Builder Magazine in 2008.
The 1,700-acre master-planned Mediterra community is the seven-time winner of the Collier Building Industry Association’s Sand Dollar Award for Community of the Year. Mediterra offers an array of lifestyle amenities, including the member-owned Club at Mediterra with two Tom Fazio-designed championship courses and the private 10,000-square-foot Beach Club on the Gulf of Mexico, featuring an elevated swimming pool, casual dining with a full bar, and valet service for beach chairs, umbrellas and beverage and food menus.
Mediterra’s onsite amenities include themed neighborhood parks; eight miles of walking and jogging trails; a fitness complex with tennis and bocce courts, swimming pool and spa services; and the 25,000-square-foot clubhouse offering formal and casual dining prepared by a staff of award-winning culinary experts.
Mediterra’s Golf Learning Center offers indoor and outdoor hitting stations, video equipment with launch monitor, a 2.5-acre short game practice complex with three greens, and a staff of certified PGA professionals. Membership opportunities at Mediterra are limited to just 225 members per 18 holes.
Planned for fewer than 950 homes, Mediterra’s master plan includes more than 1,000 acres dedicated to open space with golf, parks and nature preserves. All of the community’s amenities are membership-owned.
Since December 2009, London Bay and affiliates have managed all new home sales and marketing for the luxury community. London Bay recently expanded services by adding Mediterra Realty, which lists resale properties throughout Mediterra.
Available home designs in Mediterra include single-family estate homes and single-family maintenance-free villas priced from the $700,000s to more than $7 million.
For more information about Mediterra, visit www.mediterranaples.com, call toll-free 866-954-8939, or visit Mediterra, located on Livingston Road, two miles north of Immokalee Road and west of I-75. The award-winning Mediterra Sales Gallery is open daily.
