AdvertisementFour friends bought a crumbling 100-year-old mansion in Sri Lanka for £315,000 and have spent four years transforming it into a luxury villa. Named Halala Kanda – and known locally as Firefly Hill – it is located on a Sri Lankan hillside near the town Weligama. The mansion was built in 1912 by the son of a wealthy plantation owner trying to woo his bride. The friends wanted the mansion ‘to look as authentic as possible but didn’t want to create a pastiche of what went before’. Sharpe left the wooden rafters as they were, choosing not to paint them so the artistry could be left on display.

Source: Daily Mail July 24, 2021 15:33 UTC