Farcliff is a classic island home - a family retreat built in the '50's on Harbour Island's famous pink beach and updated to provide modern comforts. Chloe keeps house and presides over the fully-equipped kitchen six days a week. Sidole manages the grounds.
The great room revolves around a massive coral fireplace and is stocked with assorted games, books, and a CD/tape player. Its "back and front" sliding glass walls create an open design uniting the courtyard, house, and beach. All bedrooms have ceiling fans, ample closets and garden or ocean views. They connect to the living areas via louvered halls and breezeways.
The courtyard houses a barbecue pit and is dotted with wrought iron chaises lounges, glass-topped tables, and love seats. During the day the courtyard blazes with tropical color from speciman hibiscus, frangipani, and bougainvillea - the perfect setting for a quiet breakfast or afternoon tea. In the evening, landscape lights accent the lone coconut palm as tree frogs serenade the cocktail set.
The fifty-foot verandah is the beachside gathering point - a breezy refuge from the noontime sun. And if the hammock overlooking the ocean is occupied after lunch, the reclining deck chairs will more than suffice during siesta.
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