The Indigenous Materials of Indonesia at Villa M Bali

Private Villa M Bali is proud to incorporate the beautiful natural fibres, stones and timber of Bali and Indonesia within its construction and recent renovation.

A capricious mixture of these natural material and bold textures ranges from the stacked slate splash-back in the walk-in raindrop shower of the new Master Suite, and the red tones of the polished merbau wood floor in the new Master Bedroom, to the richly grained rough tumble marble walls in the newly renovated kitchens. The new exterior stone walls are composed of random serai rocks that have been pieced together to portray an intricate jigsaw of shapes, while Villa M’s two dazzling swimming pools are lined with greenish blue Sukabumi stone from Java. The thatched roofs of all the buildings at Villa M near Umalas in Bali, feature ‘alang alang’ or ‘kunai’ grass, a totally natural product grown and harvested in Bali and Lombok. The thatch is hand woven and lashed onto bamboo battens to create this amazing roofing material. Finally, the statues of the gamelan musicians in the garden are hand carved from paras stone, a soft sandstone that is mined from the river beds of Bali.