Nakiyadeniya

The long timber table in the main room stands under two woven pendants, with three rattan chairs on the pool side and a bench along the other. Behind it a cement kitchen block holds louvred timber cupboards and a black refrigerator, and a niche in the white wall carries wine glasses, small Buddha figures and a branch. Two ceiling fans hang from the roof frame, and the curtains at the doors are tied back.

At the other end a grey sofa with ikat cushions faces a teal bench, with a brass bowl and a book on the coffee table and a jute rug on the cement floor. A painting of a bird hangs in a plastered niche. Big leaves stand in the foreground, and through a black-framed door a bedroom shows a bed and a wall air-conditioner.

The ochre bedroom has a green runner across the bed, a red fringed cushion and woven lamps on cords, and its sliding glass door opens to the deck. In the other bedroom a teal mandala hangs over the headboard and a rattan chair stands by the glass. On the deck two timber chairs face the hills, and at dusk the pool lights and the pergola lights come on.