Villa Quinoa

Village House Updated to Comporta Cool

A traditional family home in the heart of Comporta, this villa for rent in Portugal has been reimagined as a chic, breezy vacation getaway. Here, family nostalgia meets seaside chic in the easygoing interiors where ancestral artifacts offset modern furnishings in cane and rattan, and art, books, and plants create a homey accent to the coastal cool, seashell white couches, plump ottomans and inviting patio loungers.

Comporta’s easygoing coastal lifestyle has transformed the community into a hip seaside destination over the last decade, and this original village home has evolved with the times, too. Once a family’s favored getaway, this villa for rent in Portugal now welcomes guests inside walls accented by personal treasures and updated with comfortable modern furnishings.

Three bedrooms and baths welcome six, and there’s room to spread out inside the home’s common areas built both indoors and out under high-beamed ceilings. Bedrooms are sunlight and cozy, with color themed décor in shades of green, blue and ochre. The villa’s open plan indoor living area spreads out underneath pitched, whitewashed ceilings, and is surrounded by windows on all sides. Cool pendant lighting and funky wall art helps to define the open space that includes a mid-century styled dining space, a coastal chic sectional couch and TV zone, and a sleek, minimal kitchen inset artfully into the walls tiled in gleaming, seashell-pink mimicking a scallop’s glossy interior.

Outdoors, a shaded kitchen and wood-fired oven flank the swimming pool, and a separate, dark wood pergola structure shades the generous outdoor dining table and plump, cushioned sun loungers in thick rattan. Backyard views are onto the neighborhood’s surrounding, red-tile-roofed villas, and a quick walk leads to the heart of Comporta village with its cafes, groceries, and services.

AROUND

The liveliest town of Portugal’s wild Alentejo coastal region, Comporta is at once rural and coastal. Visitors to the area delight in the rustic, terra cotta-toned sandy coastline that the New York Times dubbed “among Europe’s last unspoiled beaches.” Inland, wetlands hold rice paddies and drier highlands are dotted with cork oak stands and orange groves and striped with vineyards. 

The village of Comporta has become a favorite destination of European creatives and has an upscale boho vibe, with art galleries, cocktail bars, and artisanal shops abundant along its whitewashed streets.

LOCATION​

Comporta, Portugal. Nearest airport: Lisbon (125km)

BEST TIME TO VISIT: May to October