El Sol de la Mañana

El Sol de la Mañana faces east, and is named for what that gives it: the sun arrives first here, on the terrace with the red door, where breakfast sits in full morning light while the rest of the village is still waking. From the kitchen window you look into a small courtyard where a fig tree grows out of the volcanic gravel.

The large terrace windows were salvaged from the Famara bungalows (the Norwegian-designed holiday houses on the beach at Famara) and rebuilt into this apartment. The kitchen worktops are rescued ex-display tiles, saved from waste and edged in wood. The bedroom's wooden panelling was made by Bert Becker, a wood shaper and furniture maker from Saxony who also builds traditional circus wagons. The terrace light started life as a stave from one of Florencio's wine barrels, then a light base, before Andrew made it what it is today.

The views here are mostly courtyards and gardens — not coastlines. The nearest coast is twelve minutes by car.