Mediterra, where the design answers to the villa.
Mediterra is the Tuscan-inspired estate community above Bonita Beach Road - twenty-two miles of private boulevard, a Tom Fazio golf course, and architecture that draws from Italian hill towns. The properties read as villas. The landscape vocabulary is Mediterranean. The best Mediterra projects feel like they sit in Florence-via-Florida.
Designing inside a Mediterranean community vocabulary.
Mediterra was built with a unified architectural vision - stucco walls, terracotta tile roofs, courtyards, loggias, and a deliberately Italianate planting palette of olives, cypress, citrus, lavender, and rosemary. The HOA design review is among the strictest in southwest Florida.
Our approach is to embrace the Mediterranean vocabulary rather than fight it. Our designs look as if the property could exist in southern Italy - but built for Naples sun, hurricane exposure, and South Florida's growing calendar.
What we design in Mediterra.
Villa courtyards
Walled interior courtyards in the Italian villa tradition - centered fountains, terracotta paving, olive trees, citrus, and the kind of intimate enclosure the climate forgives in Naples winter.
Mediterranean pool design
Pools that read like classical fountains - travertine surrounds, formal geometry, integrated reflecting pools, raised spa rooms, lighting that flickers like candles.
Loggia and outdoor rooms
Outdoor living spaces under tile roofs - fireplaces, kitchens, dining, integrated trellises with grape and bougainvillea. The Italian outdoor-room tradition translated to year-round Naples use.
Olive and citrus groves
Small estate-tier groves on the larger lots - olives, lemons, limes, oranges, kumquats. Working landscape that produces fruit and reads as authentic Mediterranean tradition.
HOA design review navigation
Submittals to Mediterra's design review committee in the format expected, with material samples, plant schedules, and elevation drawings ready for first-pass approval.
Common questions.
Do you work within Mediterra's design review committee?
Yes, on every Mediterra project. We prepare full submittals - material samples, plant schedules, and architectural drawings - and design for first-pass approval.
Will the design honor the Mediterranean vocabulary?
Always. The community's coherence is the most valuable thing about it. Our work strengthens it, never fights it.
Can you design olive and citrus groves at estate scale?
Yes - and recommend Florida-appropriate varieties that produce well in Naples climate while reading as authentic Mediterranean tradition.
What does a Mediterra project typically take?
From first site walk to final installation, typically twelve to eighteen months. Design review adds time on the front end.
“Mediterra's architecture sets a high bar. Our landscapes are built to meet it — formal where the home is formal, loose where the light wants to move.”
Eleven consecutive Best of Houzz awards · 2020 HGTV People's Choice Award, Cape Coral
Bring the property to us.
If your home is in Mediterra, we would be glad to begin a conversation. Rob personally reviews every inquiry.
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