$3,745,528

Most new houses of this size give you one large open space and call it flexible. This one does not. The ground floor has a 29.30 m² living room, a separate 18.06 m² TV room and a 15.94 m² dining room, three real spaces, which is what a family or a full house of guests actually needs. The 21.69 m² Arclinea kitchen in Dekton sits alongside them and opens the same way they do, onto a 30.13 m² terrace, the infinity edge pool and the Atlantic beyond it. The setting is the part that cannot be repeated. The villa sits on the front line of the beach in the Seca do Bacalhau area of Vila Nova de Gaia, looking at the ocean, with Porto across the water and the mouth of the Douro to one side. Nothing will be built in front. Front line land in the Porto metropolitan area is close to finished, and there are only eight houses on this stretch. There are four suites. One of 17.85 m² is on the ground floor, useful for guests, for parents, or for anyone who does not want to use stairs every day. The other three, of 22.38 m², 23.69 m² and 38.13 m², are upstairs, each with natural light, sharing 53.04 m² of balcony facing the water. A further 16.20 m² room on that floor works as a home office, a library or storage. Below, the basement takes a 37.49 m² garage for two cars, a laundry, 6 m² of storage and a 36.67 m² technical zone, which keeps every machine that runs the house out of sight. The equipment list is not the usual new build list. Arclinea kitchen with Sub-Zero refrigeration, Wolf cooking, Miele dishwasher and laundry, and a Vita Gessi tap that gives boiling, filtered, chilled and sparkling water. Gessi bathrooms with Krion antibacterial washbasins, a bath in selected natural stone, Italbox screens and Dekton bases. Schüco windows and façade systems with thermal break and double glazing for solar and acoustic control, which matters on an exposed coast. Dierre entrance door. Ribadão multilayer wood floors and Dekton ceramics. Baxi underfloor heating with fan coils, heat pump water heating and mechanical ventilation with heat recovery. Jung metal controls throughout. A Glamm ethanol fireplace and Foursteel electric towel rails. The façade is exposed concrete and corten steel, chosen to weather with the coast, and the pool is lined in Dekton. The beach is at the door and the coastal boardwalks and cycle paths run past it. The A1 is four minutes away. El Corte Inglés, Gaia Shopping and the banking on Avenida da República are close, and Porto's UNESCO listed centre, the Port wine cellars and the airport are all a short drive. Finishes may be substituted for others of equivalent price and quality. #ref:0327