Double bedroom
Four-poster double bed
This room was once the carpentry workshop of Argyris’s father. Its en-suite has a bathtub and a handmade wooden vanity.
The house · Villa Asteri
The Carpenter’s House
The Skordilis family built this house in Asteri in 1955. Half of it was home; the other half was the carpentry workshop of Argyris’s father, and nobody ever tidied that history away. The green sideboard he made still stands in the kitchen, and his tools hang on the walls like a small exhibition.
Argyris made much of the furniture himself, in the same spirit: the cypress-wood dining table, the two sofas and coffee table in the living room, the cypress outdoor sofa, the green glass cabinet and the bathroom vanities. Out in the courtyard, the BBQ table is based on his father’s old workbench, and hand planes have become lamps.
Even the bedrooms carry the story. The ground-floor four-poster room was the workshop itself, and the twin room next door was the family kitchen.
Nobody styled Villa Asteri to look traditional. Its character comes from the family who lived and worked here.
“My father built this house in 1955 and ran his carpentry workshop here. His tools are still on the walls. Today it’s your home in Crete.”— Argyris Skordilis, owner
