3BR Balinese Villa with Rice-Field Terrace & Lap Pool in Umalas

A three-bedroom villa for monthly or yearly rent in Umalas, under a traditional pitched terracotta roof with bright white rooms beneath it. The find here is at the side of the house: a covered terrace laid in coloured encaustic tiles under a bamboo ceiling, where three big circular openings are cut straight through the wall onto open rice paddy. It is the kind of spot you end up sitting in every morning. The pool is a black-tiled lap pool set in lawn and teak decking, with an open-air rain shower in black stone at the far end.

Living, dining and kitchen share one air-conditioned room that folds open to the deck on two sides. The kitchen runs to a curved white island with a teak top and woven bar stools, under two oversized raffia pendants. Outside, a steel-and-bamboo pergola covers a long teak table for eight, hung with woven nest lights and festoon bulbs, with carved masks on the wall behind. All three bedrooms are air-conditioned and en-suite: the main one has a plaster platform bed, three round clerestory portholes and a built-in banquette, opening directly to the pool; another is built around a carved four-poster in dark teak; the third looks onto the rice-field terrace. The bathrooms run from honey hexagon mosaic to black and chevron tile, each with a moulded terrazzo basin.

Fully furnished throughout, with air conditioning in every bedroom, high-speed WiFi, a smart TV and private parking. From IDR 55,000,000 per month, or IDR 550,000,000 for a full year.

Umalas is the residential pocket between Seminyak and Canggu, which is exactly why people take long leases here. Umalas centre is under a kilometre; Seminyak and Petitenget about 2 km, Batu Belig Beach around 2.5 km, and Berawa Beach, Finns and Batu Bolong all roughly 3.5 km. Nook, Barbacoa and the Umalas café strip are a few minutes away, the international schools closer still, and Ngurah Rai Airport is about 11 km.