Villa Urla (not for rent anymore....)

Villa Janse

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We settled in our villa Janseat the border of Urla village in April 2008 . Over the last months we have been working on making the house a safer and warmer place for us and our two year old daughter. The last month or so have been spent bringing the finishing touches to the exterior of the house with a pergule and new terraces. We will continue to do this untill end of August in order to have the house ready for our new tenants.

We have 4 bedrooms. Our daugther sleeps in the room next to ours on the ground floor. At the moment the 5th bedroom, the master bedroom, is in the finishing stage. On the 2nd floor there are 2 other bedrooms for our guests, they enjoy the best view from the large balcony in front of them! The guests share a bathroom with toilet. Ofcourse these 2 rooms can also be used for the children.

What we appreciate a lot is our open dining, living room and kitchen area, which allow you to cook, read a book, sitting behind the PC while still enjoying eachothers company. Downstairs in the basement we have a huge space to storage all kinds of things, it could easily be turned into a play room for children. In the basement there is also a garage for 2 cars, and 2 small rooms for washing machine and heating system.

Please take a look at the photo's, we seperated them under living room, kitchen, study/dining room, 2nd floor, bedrooms, bathrooms, the area and the village Urla. See the menu on the right to click on all subjects.

The road that leads to our house..

Our living room

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Kitchen

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Study dining room

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View from the study dining room is stunning!

2nd floor

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The views from the large balcony on the 2nd floor are fantastic, nature, green, the sea, the mountains...

Bedroom

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Bathrooms

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Our garden

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The garden is brand new and needs its plants, trees and grass to grow before we are able to walk bare foot in the whole garden, but already we are enjoying the quiet afternoons sitting on the grass below one of the shady trees.
As the Urla area is known for its garden markets and fruit trees, we have an abundance of trees on our 3000 m2 land. In the Urla village a 3000 year old olive oil press can be found!

Our garden houses fig trees, apricot trees, pear tree, grapes, plum trees. More then 15 olive trees supply us for our yearly olive oil. We hope to harvest also our tangerine trees, apple trees and walnut trees the coming period. Really wonderful to have all this in your garden.
A large garden needs work though, we have had help from gardeners the last year. We will continue to hire one once a week the coming year. And as it is a young garden, there is plenty of space for you to arrange a trampoline, playgarden or dog house..
Ofcourse we have taken precautionary steps to make the house safer using video intercom, movement sensor lamps, barbed wire, double glazed windows, and inside movement sensors.

Other information

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Internet connection (ADSL) available
TV satelite dish available for European channels
A septic tank to be emptied every half year
No costs of water as we have drilled our own well at 80 mt depth
Garbage is collected twice a weekby the municipality of Urla
We will have a list available of all kind of workers, electrical engineer, plumber, builder, to solve any problems that might occur during your stay. A house manager (a friend) will be your main contact point to arrange all repairs etc.
Our gardener who can take care of the garden one day a week, whole year through (exept rainy days)
Our villa is located 2 minutes from the highway to Izmir.

As you can see from the photo´s we are and will be investing the coming years, this gives a good opportunity for you to confirm and arrange the house according to your needs too!
For example security systems, particular needs for garden landscaping, swimming pool etc.

The area

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We bought this piece of land not only because it is a 2 minute drive from the highway to Izmir, 15 minutes to the large supermarkets and shopping malls, but also because it is on the border of a village Urla, with its own supermarkets, hospital, dentist, police station, schools etc.
From our house beautiful walks can be made in the green nature and the views on the islands in front of Urla are magnificent. We have a perfect view from our 2nd floor on the sea and the mountains. By bike you can take a ride into the woodlands and small beaches, by car the popular breakfast place everyone goes to in the weekend.

Though we live in the countryside we have a direct neighbour villa, the owner has a fulltime doormen living on the premeses with his wife and 2 years old daughter. Oppisite of our house are 3 other neighbours, all have been living there for over 8 years. Behind our house, up the hill a number of our friends live in the residential compounds. Urla centre is a 5 minute drive and half an hour walk from our house. A small local grocery store ´bakal´is only 1 km away.

The village of Urla

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