PROPERTY OF THE MONTH

YELLOW HOMES

Land & Houses Algarve Real Estate Agent since 1995 T: +351 289 301 294 E: info@yellowhomes.com www.yellowhomes.com

EN 125, Benfarras Boliqueime (opposite DHL)

AMI: 6232

PROPERTY

OF THE MONTH

Unique large country home with lots of character conveniently located in the hills close to Loule

PROPERTY DETAILS

• Exceptional property with a rustic, Algarvian style • Perfectly maintained, with lots of character and charm and surrounded by natural, Mediterranean vegetation • Modern comfort and techniques • 4-bedrooms | 4-bathrooms • Very spacious open plan dining room and lounge with fireplace • Large fully fitted and equipped kitchen with dining area • Cosy snug room/bibliotheca • Typical terracotta floors and high wooden ceilings with beams throughout • Sun terraces, covered BBQ and summer kitchen • Large private salt water pool • Underfloor heating throughout • Plot completely walled/fenced • Double garage • Construction: approx. 400 m2 • Plot: 5.000 m2

¤1.950,000 Ref: R-LLJ

A TOUCH OF ELEGANCE

If you’re looking for an extravagant piece of furnature from a small lamp to an esquisive 4 post bed, you will find what you’re looking for at Algarve Elegance and if its not already waiting for you in the beautiful showroom then Donna Vinall will find it for you!

Originally from Norwich, Norfolk in the UK Donna Vinall worked as a carer for 26 years including in her own care agency which she had for 8 years before moving to Portugal. First visited Portugal on a spare of the moment decision a couple of years ago, she felt like she needed to escape from a very stressful lifestyle at the time and decided to get away, so, guided by her love for horses, she found Portugal after finding an advert for Horse riding holidays. She had never heard of it but it was perfect as it was only a 2 and a half hour flight and she could be there and back in no time. She spent her first visit to Portugal in Orique, a very quiet but beautifully tranquil part of the Algarve and that was it, she was hooked!

Initially, she had no idea what to do here in Portugal, so together with her husband she bought an apartment near the sea and though she spent plenty of time soaking up the sun, boredom set in as she was used to working everyday. She started decorating the apartment but could only go so far with it, so they decided on starting a project and bought a ruin in the hills of Salir and completely renovated it and there Donna decided that her love of interiors and

Fresh from completing that project Donna started Algarve Elegance, her own furniture shop in Almancil providing beautiful and unique furniture from suppliers from different countries such as the UK, France, Italy, Spain and of course Portugal. After just a year Donna knew the shop wasn’t big enough to showcase her inventory in the way she pictured it and so just before we all went into lockdown she found a new place, four times bigger than the last so she can show visitors just how beautiful her furniture really is. Over the lockdown period, she used the time to completely transform the new area from bare white walls and empty space to a showroom filled with wonderful furniture that will make anyone say wow. It was a huge step especially as it was only a year since starting but well worth it as it gives clients the space to look around and there is always something new to see.

Donna also offers her work as an interior designer, filling your home from top to bottom with unique style that caters to what you love and want to see in your home, whether the client want to be a part of the process or not Donna loves furniture and design and firmly believes that when you do what you love you do it to the best of your ability even going to the point of painting walls and furniture with unique patterns and techniques that she comes up with herself that complete the look.

We love Donna’s shop, it’s a beautiful place filled with love for what she does and it oozes into every corner, we hope to see you there next time we visit!

A: Rua Vale Fromoso, Almancil, 8100-221 T: +351 960 116 396 E: donna@algarveelegance.com W: algarveelegance.com

A DAM GOOD PLACE TO HIKE

If you’re looking for somewhere to visit with beautiful views here is why you should take a day to visit Odeleite!

Odeleite, situated amidst the beautiful the production of goats cheese, lacework and traditional Algarve hills, with a stunning river confectionary. marking its boundary on two sides, is a The Odeleite Dam, constructed between May 1992 and delightful patch of green in a landscape September 1998 is a man-made lake, which together dominated by the browns of the Portugal with its neighbour the Beliche Dam, forms the biggest interior. The streets are full of traditionally water reservoir in the Algarve. The effects of the hydraulic decorated houses and the little village resources of these two dams, which are joined by a church is charming. Within its white walls are some fine 2,950 metre tunnel, have as their objective the Municiple statues dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. A visit water supply for all the Sotavento (east) area of the to the local museum is also a must. The real attraction, Algarve (including Loule) and the Terras da Ordem however, is the magnificent Odeleite Dam, which not only National Brushwood. The name of this wooded area, with supplies the region with water, but is a fantastic place to approximately 1,366ha, indicates a religious past associated walk and soak up the scenery. with the Order of Christ, a time when it belonged to

The village of Odeleite is developed on a hillside that is cut the Castro Marim Alcaiaria Mor Commendation. After out of sharp slopes which determine the development of its extinction, the land ended up by being acquired by the urban center. At the foot of the hillside, hugging the the State in the 60s and underwent the first forestation

Village, the Ribeira de Odeleite can be found, which 6 km’s project with a view to recovering the fertility of its soils and downstream flows into the Guadiana River. respective water reserves. With the April 1974 revolution,

As the village’s point of reference, near the stream is the management of this space was interupted, a new main Church of Our Lady of Visitation (16th Century). intervention commenced from 1982 onwards, which seeks

The main traditional activities carried out in the village not only the management of game resources but also the and a little all over the parish are basketwork, apiculture, arboreal coverage.