Extra services

Electricity usage above 250 kw per week will be charged according to consumption.

Maid service € 12 per hour
Cooking at the villa
Extra linen change € 130
Hire car with driver € 30/40 per hour
Driver with guest's car € 20 per hour (possibility of fixed price for excursions ect.)
Baby-sitter € 10 per hour
Shopping delivered (price to be agreed)
Hair dresser, beautitian or masseuse at home (to be agreed)
Body guard (to be agreed as per service requested)

The following can be organized on request:

 

All the above extras are to be requested on booking and paid to the owner in advance. 

The owner, Mrs. Ann O'Connor Tempestini, was born and lived for nearly thirty years in Australia. Apart from the passion that she shares with her husband for antiques and art, her main hobby is reproducing oil paintings - copies of Flemish still lifes and portraits of the C15th and C16th Italian period.

Mr. Tempestini has a Law degree but has always worked in textiles. His main hobbies are searching for antique furniture (of which he is a discreet connaisseur) antique books, materials and paintings.

The passion for antique materials is such that the owners have taken up a comercial activity dealing with construction of a new house or the restoral of an old one, using obviously recuparated material. Exclusive material which has come from demolition of antique villas, palaces, castles, farmhouses, churches etc. This material ranges from roofing with typical Tuscan cotto, to stones for externals, stone for doorways, arches etc. as well as diverse pavings in cotto, in stone or wood of various dimensions and measurements.

There is also included a section which regards outside decor, such as antique fountains, basins, statues etc. Outstanding for quality and quantity is the part reserved for doors, in which hundreds of antique doors, inlaid or carved doors, with one or two shutters, laquered doors, enormous entrance doors or small doors with spy-holes, and many many others. Of sure interest is the section regarding fireplaces, in stone, marble or wood. Also painted wooden ceilings, great bookcases, boiseriè of different kinds of wood etc.

For more information and for a complete panorama you can visit the site www.lacasantica.it and contact us if you are interested.

We also offer advise on new constructions using recuperated materials, restauration and decorating. The most effective example of such a realization is the owners' villa, adjacent to Villa Roncovisi, which has been completely built using recuperated materials and decorated exclusively with antique furniture and objects d'art. To see this you can visit the link "realizations" inside the site.