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When it comes to finding the right house to call “home”, our criteria tend to focus on location, size, valuation and such, rarely taking account the narrative behind it. Not for this family of four, whose ideal home turned out to be a humble abode in the small village of Touro in central Portugal. A jumble of stone-built structures in an agrarian community of 1,000 people may seem like a strange choice for a young couple and their two children to move to from the big city, but then again, the original owner of the house, “Grandfather Martinho”, wasn’t a local resident either, in fact he had just returned from exotic Brazil when he built the house in the 1940s. Designed by José and Mário Morgado, whose practiceCOVO Interiores is located just 7 kilometres away in the somewhat larger town of Vila Nova de Paiva, the renovated house respectfully embraces the building’s humble origins while espousing an interior design of contemporary minimalism that provides all the comforts that a modern family would need. 
Photo by João Morgado. 
Photo by João Morgado. 
Located on a cobblestone alley that widens to become a communal courtyard where chickens occasionally roam, the house is made up of two adjoining stone-built buildings and an adjacent annex. Externally, the stone masonry has been meticulously restored – its irregular pattern of stone blocks punctuated by the rectangular shapes of the new windows and doors – as has the tiled roof. Slim white metallic frames maximize the glazing area of the windows which, during the day, appear as reflective rectangles against the masonry façade, a balance that is inverted during the night when the illuminated interiors pop out of the darkened stone exterior. Photo by João Morgado. 
Photo by João Morgado. 
Photo by João Morgad |
