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Textural but spare, primitive but comfortable, this sort of rustic minimalism is defined by a pareddown, pragmatic mix of tried and tested local ingredients; walls in plaster, distemper, or limewash, timeless furniture, utilitarian textiles.

Riad Dar K reinterprets Moroccan style in a modern way, embracing textural but monochromatic style. Tadelakt is used throughout for bathrooms, floors, and walls. Yak-wool blankets and woollen tassels decorate the rough-hewn four-poster bed.

Liselotte Watkins’ nomad story is one that I have heard many times. It’s the ‘leaving early’ story of a youthful iconoclast, a ‘throws-caution-to-the-wind’, who picks up their bags and follows something or someone without a backward glance, too young to question the sagacity of such a move.

The elongated kitchen is built from a run of tiled counter integrated with painted cupboard doors. Modulated turquoise zellige tiles stretch up to the ceiling.

The ‘Japandi’ bathroom, with its concrete bathtub and cement board-panelled walls, was a labor of love. It took us a while to decide how to tackle it, but as we are ‘soakers’ we prioritized a tub with a view.

Blurring the boundaries between indoor living and life lived in the great outdoors is often part of the attraction of moving somewhere new, warmer, ideally somewhere with a mesmerizing view. A round plunge pool, a shower, and a ‘bathroom’ on the deck invite visitors to absorb the landscape at different times of day.