Stay in an architect’s vision of a house on Barbados’ Platinum Coast. This colonial-style house was designed as a holiday home by and for renowned architect Oliver Messel. You can feel the detail from an architect’s eye in the coral columns and stone-hewn bookshelves in the grand living room. Shelves and dressers are adorned with driftwood and shells, a reminder of your location by the beach. A direct path leads to the caster-sugar sand of Mullins Bay and the charming cafes, shops and rum shacks of Speightstown are within walking distance too. From the open living and dining room, French doors lead to the covered terrace, which feels just like an extension of the home with ferns and yucca adorning the lounge area. There’s a dining table surrounded by trailing botanica out here too. In the heart of the backyard, a Roman-style swimming pool invites you for a dip and there are loungers on the lawn shaded by towering palms. Stepping from the pool terrace back into the house, you’ll find a second sitting room – more casual and cost, like a family snug. Bedrooms all have their own colour schemes in powder blue, dusky pink and soft green and there’s...Read more a garden bedroom with bunkbeds for the kids, which can double as an office or third sitting room. Read less

Additional fees

• Your host can help arrange a variety of extra services during your stay, including massages and beauty treatments, wine tours, laundry and dry cleaning, fridge fills, restaurant reservations, private chefs, airport transfers, and car hire

• You can also arrange to have your breakfast cooked each morning – you only need to pay for the food

• If you’re travelling with children, your host can organise babysitting services – alternatively, a live-in nanny can be arranged at a cost of £475-£670 per week

Additional fees subject to a 3.5% handling charge.