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Before moving to the Ría de Muros and Noia, María Moreno and her husband - the Englishman Rupert Wakefield - lived in London, where they worked in an advertising agency. But Rupert's entrepreneurial vocation and Maria's passion for decoration led them to buy a house to restore. His initial idea was Ibiza or Barcelona, but María's Galician family saw the time to bring her family closer.


The mother found a construction in O Cruceiro de Roo and in just a couple of months they changed the city of London to the rural Outes. The couple founded Balula Studio, which already has different rehabilitation projects in its portfolio, including that of this wonderful house on the beach of Aguieira, one of the best in Galicia. "The original construction was the perfect example of the so-called Galician Feism" - tells us María Moreno.


“A building of two heights, with a bar on the ground floor and three apartments on the first floor.” I needed a comprehensive intervention: “in order to create a comfortable holiday rental house and thinking of a mostly English audience - who likes wide spaces- ”.




The first thing they did was to design a new, more open distribution. On the ground floor there was a large common area, without partitions, in which different environments were created: living room with fireplace, dining room, kitchen, a library corner and a play area, with a pool table for rainy days .
The first floor was reserved to place four bedrooms and their bathrooms. The rehabilitation works also affected the facade, which was completely renovated. In addition, the garden was designed and the pool was made.














After the works, which lasted a year, Balula Studio got a great house, but it lacked that special touch given by the original architectural elements and that have other of his projects. In this case, everything had been thrown away, as there was nothing worth keeping. Interior design would be responsible for providing originality and character to each and every one of the environments. Their hallmarks are undoubtedly custom-made furniture, most of them with a very attractive aged finish, and the passage doors, both of the bedrooms and bathrooms, made from demolition materials from a warehouse from Madrid. As a guiding thread of the decoration, a color palette in neutral and sober tones was used, with brushstrokes that soften and soften. The result, a spectacular reform, with impeccable environments, in an idyllic place where it is easy to disconnect and enjoy the silence.


Realization: Dafne Vijande.