Welcome back to A Peek In Paradise, where we explore some of Bali's most inspiring homes and the stories behind them.
In this episode, we're visiting Anna's House — a beautiful home built around a traditional Javanese joglo that's full of warmth, character, and thoughtful design. Rather than chasing perfection, Anna has created a home that feels deeply personal, with every detail reflecting her taste, personality, and the way she lives.
Raised almost four metres above the jungle, the house was designed to capture incredible views, natural light, and unforgettable sunsets. The living room faces the trees, the kitchen island lets you cook with a view, and skylights fill the home with beautiful natural light throughout the day. Rich materials like solid teak and red travertine sit alongside handmade pieces, from an intentionally imperfect crystal coffee table to a layered fabric pendant above the dining table.
In this episode you'll see: A beautifully restored traditional Javanese joglo A classic kitchen triangle layout for effortless cooking — with a view! Clever design ideas for making small spaces feel larger Handmade furniture and one-of-a-kind details A lush garden filled with personal touches Why embracing imperfection can create a more beautiful home
If you enjoy architecture, interiors, and homes with real personality, we think you'll love this one.
Which part of Anna's home is your favourite? Let us know in the comments!
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Anna gives a tour of her \"paradise\" home in Bali, a traditional Javanese Jogla. She emphasizes a design philosophy that embraces imperfection, natural light, and a cohesive color palette. The home features unique materials like red travertine and solid wood, strategically elevated to maximize jungle views and sunlight, blending artistic personal touches with functional living spaces.
Hello, Bali interiors.
My name is Anna.
Welcome to my home.
Let's take a peek in my paradise.
Okay, so this is the main part of the jogla.
And in traditional Javanese meaning,
this main part, this is the center of the house
where everybody from the morning until the evening
sit here and talking.
For the time when you spend with family, friends,
when you invite the guests,
my idea with the sofa was to face sofa to the jungle.
So I like to sit here when the sun set
because sunset is there.
So sunset light comes inside.
When I saw this part
and I understand the color palette of this art,
absolutely like 100% matches
with the colors of my house,
the colors of the rug, of furniture.
Okay, this is small coffee table,
which I designed and then produce.
All this made from metal.
So this is very, very heavy.
These strange legs also like made not perfect.
So when we do instruction for the firm who produce it,
we say like, please don't make it perfect.
Make it ugly, like ugly design.
And these crystals,
my idea was to have a table
with some small pieces of crystal,
but the production cannot make it.
So they just send us a table with holes.
So we put it by ourselves.
This is like a little bit ugly design
with not perfect texture and color with some stains,
but I like it.
I want to make absolutely similar like it have now.
We found the land with a beautiful view to the jungle.
Our land was end in Subak
and zero level of the land was quite high.
And until Subak, it was like minus four meters.
So we decide to elevate all land to zero level
and we elevate all structure,
all foundation approximately like four meters.
First of all, the view, yeah?
So you see the view, the beautiful view,
you see only leaves, you see only trees.
So you never see the soil.
And second, the light, yeah?
So if you elevate from the jungle,
of course the light will be like more beautiful.
So this is our kitchen area.
It was my big dream to use red travertine
everywhere in my house.
All kitchen was made from solid thick wood,
which was very risky because of course,
the solid wood waves a little bit
because of the weather and because of the humidity.
I made this classic triangle system.
The fridge is here, the stove here,
and the kitchen sink there.
So this triangle is standard rule
and this is very easy to use the kitchen.
So you move from the fridge to the stove
and to the kitchen sink.
And the stove is here because I like the idea
so to use kitchen island to cook something with the view.
First of all, I like mirrors,
but I like mirrors from ceiling until the floor.
This is my obsession.
But here, the two mirrors in small corridor,
I make it for maximize the size of this small corridor
because this corridor made just to open,
for opening the door.
And I want to make it,
I want to make something interesting here.
So that's why I make the mirrors
almost until the height of the three meters door, yeah.
The room's quite small.
So this is just four meters by four meters.
That's why we have to do like that, yeah.
So my wardrobe, I don't like to do like that,
but here we have to,
because I want to maximize space near the bed.
So I don't want to put a wardrobe there.
So that's why I think it's a good idea to put AC on top
and to put wardrobe to the both sides of the bed.
So for the flooring for all our juggler,
I use like concrete slab and then small marble mosaic.
This mosaic on the net,
so they put it very like easy, fast,
but this mosaic very like unperfect.
So that's why I choose this unperfect material
for unperfect works, you know.
Long, long time, my dream was to make the bathroom
absolutely like totally from red travertine.
But here, of course, we have wooden walls.
So three wooden walls and one from red travertine.
The red travertine is very unique
because nobody know about that, not too much use it.
But I think this is beautiful,
a beautiful color match with our furniture.
So we decide to use it for the floor,
for the wall inside the shower and for all things.
In all my projects, if I have stability to make skylight,
I will do that for sure.
So first, I like the light on the walls from skylight.
Second, you get really like really full of the light
the bathroom and it's good for the girls
to see your makeup.
I think it's a good idea and I always like trying to do that
in all my project, of course, in my home also.
The difference between our bedrooms
that my daughter have working table here
and I have bathtub inside the room.
I like when bathtub in the room
because for me, this feeling similar
to some expensive hotel in Las Vegas or somewhere.
So, and I like bathtub, I like to use it.
And also I like that from this bathtub,
I can see the garden and the pool.
If it's not round, what can works?
So that's how I make triangle table
and it work really good
because it's more small than round table
and you can sit quite near each other
and still see each other, but this is not round table.
So it's very like, it works really good.
The lamp was made by me.
We made structure inside, put three lamps
and then we cut a small piece of fabric.
All my house was in fabric in some small ropes.
So, and then just put it like one by one to this lamp.
It's a very beautiful light in the evening.
This is my favorite place of my home
because every morning I come here, take incense,
stay here, look to this art, you know?
So this is like a magical place for me.
And here, a lot of pieces,
sometimes somebody just gift for me, yeah?
Sometimes this is from Hong Kong.
This is like antique.
So all pieces which I buy,
like small details which I like, located here.
This is my small garden,
but full of small pieces of myself, you know, of my taste.
So first of all, I really like the plants
which have like blue color, a little bit blue color.
That's why here, blue agave have like huge flower.
And when this flower come, this die.
Like one time for like five, six years.
So I'm waiting, I'm waiting this huge flower.
It's like two and a half meter long.
In all my garden, you can see like small sculptures.
This is really antique sculptures from Zimbabwe.
So the fireplace made from one piece of granite stone.
It was so heavy that we have to rent like a special car
and go from our neighbors
in that time when we don't have the fence.
So this piece was like first piece
which we bring to our home.
Like first piece, it was the fireplace
and then we start to build the juggler.
Thank you, Bali Interiors,
for taking a peek in my paradise.
See you soon.