Peacock House Hikkaduwa HIKKADUWA

Some houses announce themselves and some simply let the garden do the talking, and Peacock House belongs firmly to the second category. Tucked into the quiet backstreets of Peraliya, a short ten minutes from Hikkaduwa’s beach and reef, this brand new villa was built around an indoor outdoor idea rather than bolted onto one afterward, so verandas slide into living rooms and bedrooms open straight onto a private garden that peacocks and the occasional curious bird treat as their own. Three bedrooms, each with its own en suite and its own four poster canopy bed draped in mosquito netting, sit arranged around a private pool and a scatter of teal cushioned daybeds, the kind of setup that makes the question of where to spend the afternoon feel like the only real decision of the day.