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Some homes feel designed. Others are shaped slowly over time.
Ramie’s home started with no walls — and became something entirely different.

In this episode of A Peek in Paradise, we visit a home that didn’t try to become something completely new — it simply grew into itself.

When Ramie first moved in, parts of the house were completely open. Over time, she enclosed it, not to shut it off, but to make it more liveable while still keeping that connection to the garden. Now, floor-to-ceiling glass runs along the main space, and wherever you sit, you’re always looking out to the lush green.

The house sits slightly elevated, almost like it’s quietly observing the garden. You feel it especially because the furniture is low — intentionally so — nothing competes with the view.

She didn’t want to erase what was already there. The marble floors stayed. The textured ceilings stayed. The stone columns stayed. Everything new had to sit gently alongside the old. Nothing here is loud — but everything is intentional.

There are small details everywhere that tell you this is her space. A sofa made from recycled wood from an old Indonesian boat. A kitchen that didn’t exist before — it was once
Transcript
00:02Hi Fonley Interiors. My name is Ramey. This is my home in Ubud. Come take a peek in my paradise.
00:13So when I got the house it had no walls so I decided to close it in and make it
00:20more of an
00:20inside house rather than outside house. But I love the garden. The garden is so beautiful. I made a
00:27ceiling to floor, glass. When I got the house there was a lot of details and finishes that
00:36were also really cool so I wanted to keep whatever we could and then just add what we
00:41what we wanted to complement it. We already had like this really great beautiful stone
00:46which comes from Indonesia and the marble flooring which is more of a you know older traditional
00:51art in in Indonesia but it's so beautiful. This sofa over here is really special because
00:56it's from an old Indonesian boat and and then we combined it with some of the wood from the house
01:02which is really a special piece. So because the house is raised up and we have the view of the
01:08garden I really wanted to keep that so we could appreciate it and not take away from the view.
01:13So I made everything really low intentionally almost in a Japanese style so people could sit
01:20closer to the ground and also enjoy the view of the garden.
01:30So in the kitchen I pretty much have to do everything from scratch in here because this was
01:34a garden it was a truly just an outdoor space so when we closed everything in the the ground in
01:43the
01:43garden was like a step down to the ground so we filled it in to raise up the ground and
01:49then made
01:49it with these these tiles which are the cement tiles that I had custom made here. All of the furniture
01:57I also had made so this island we custom made it and purposely wanted it to be very large so
02:04you
02:04could both cook here and eat here and hang out because the kitchen tends to be the heart of the
02:09home.
02:10So for the sink area I wanted to keep it everything very simple so I didn't do any upper cabinets
02:16I just
02:17did a nice open shelf so you could use it but not have to have like the the heaviness of
02:24a cabinet on
02:24the upper cabinet so all of the caning and everything that is for me it's a very tropical element I
02:31use
02:31it in a lot of my furniture but I wanted to use it here in the kitchen as well and
02:35I repeated that
02:36in a few different places around the house.
02:43So one of my favorite pieces is this one which is done by my friend Agustin. He's an artist here
02:49in
02:49Bali and he's an amazing both painter and also a musician and and he went to his studio and he
02:58had
02:58this amazing art and so I I was able to get this piece. I grew up in the desert where
03:04there's a lot
03:05of pastel colors and I think that's definitely informed some of my light and the things I like
03:09and the and the colors that I gravitate towards and in this house I did a kind of a terracotta
03:16wall with
03:16the pink but this piece really popped on the wall and I just love it so much it's really special.
03:22So there's two sides of the house and they're separated by the the central living space but
03:27on this side is the guest room so come on this way.
03:37So this is the guest room and what I like about this room is that you can really well you
03:45can first
03:46view the garden when you're in the bed but when you're in the bed it sort of feels like a
03:49princess bed
03:50with the canopy. I just love it for for the feeling and it feels really special but I wanted my
03:55guests
03:55to have that feeling too when they're in here. The ceiling in this house is really beautiful it's
04:02like the old traditional ceiling where they do wood for the framing and then use some rattan.
04:09Originally it was very dark and heavy and so I wanted to feel light and airy and so I painted
04:14it so
04:15I wanted to keep the texture of the the original ceiling but kind of change it a little bit and
04:21I love that you can really feel feel that in this space.
04:27So this is a guest bathroom and what I love about this front is I had my friend Dewa paint
04:32who's he's
04:33an artist here and he does amazing work so he came and painted this mural which
04:39kind of took parts and colors from the rest of the house and and gave him the the jungle theme
04:45and
04:46then let him go wild and this is what what he came up with and I really love it.
04:55So this piece is uh an interesting space I think when I got the house it was intentionally supposed to
05:01be
05:01uh the living room but I didn't really because I made that the living room I didn't know what to
05:08do
05:08with this space so I decided I would just sort of make it my extra little me zone where I
05:14could do
05:14work or read or just be separate from my guests if I have them. So I've made it more like
05:20an office
05:20and it's also connected to my to my bedroom so I can easily travel between when I'm working. I kind
05:27of added a few personal favorite pieces to this space. My friend gave me this this special one which
05:34is an antique. I love I love collecting antiques especially in here in Indonesia there's so many
05:39beautiful pieces and this one was my friend's grandmother's so it's very special.
05:52So this space is my bedroom. I also wanted to keep the furniture really low in here and I love
05:58the view
05:59because I can look out and see the garden when I wake up. It just feels really nice to sleep
06:05in this
06:05space. I get really good rest here. Again the ceiling in this room is very high and just really peaceful
06:12in this space. So now I'll show you the primary bathroom which is over this way.
06:23Okay here we are in the bathroom. This space was another space that was also outside when I first
06:29got the house. So this wall wasn't here. It was open to nature. So I wanted to close it in
06:37and make
06:38it more of an inside bathroom. I chose this stone. This is a stone that's natural or it comes from
06:45from here in Indonesia. And typically they use it for the pools but I really love the look of it
06:51and
06:51I love the color. So I chose it for the bathroom. And I wanted it to have both a shower
06:58and a nice
07:00bathtub space. So I put them next to one another so you you get both. But I love this this
07:07bathtub
07:08especially because it's nice for relaxing and reading or just doing your girly spa things.
07:30Thanks volunteers for taking a peek in my paradise. See you soon!
07:33Bye!
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