Rescued from the quiet fields of Damdek, this 25-year-old sanctuary is a marriage of sun-baked brick and time-honored timber. We reimagined its four expansive bedrooms as a soulful gathering place a home where families and friends can reconnect. Just steps from the main pool and cradled by the gentle song of our village waterfalls, this villa is a tribute to the Khmer spirit, reborn to offer you a lifetime of memories. The space We found this villa 30-year old Khmer House in Siem Reap, the owner decided to sell the house to us and build a new concrete house instead for her grandparent. The wood and brick converted elegant building hosts four spacious (38 sqm) bedrooms, two per floor, each room with king size bed,. It is design with comfortable and relaxing for group stays and family trips. This Villa is one of other few villas built in the same compound of big natural and tropical landscape created as a Khmer village Our philosophy: While Cambodian rural architecture has been extensively studied by leading researchers such as Madeleine Giteau in her Short Treatise on Modern Cambodian Architecture, 1971, and more recently the late Darryl Collins and architect Hok Sokol in their magnificent book Cambodian Wooden Houses; 1,500 Years of Khmer Architecture, 2022, the sad fact is that traditional housing has been disappearing at a too fast pace from the countryside and, obviously, from urban development. At Dontrei Villa, we love these houses. Because they tell us of the Cambodian past, of the cleverness and humility of the past generations. Because they are things of beauty, harmoniously blending into their natural environment – sit on the balcony of any of our houses and you’ll get the feeling. And because they are surprisingly adapted to modern life, with the wooden walls gently absorbing the day heat, and releasing it at dusk. In the last years, the movement for rescuing and rehabilitating traditional houses has become a powerful trend in Japan. The Koryoya, ‘good old houses’ in Japanese, are attracting investors, developers, and just lovers of a serene way of life, and demand is high, for instance on this website. Dontrei Villa founder and director Davy Chan, along with husband Ly and a team of carpenters, has rescued and repurposed some eight traditional houses since 2019. Gently dismantling these time-honored structures, moving them with care to our grounds, redesigning them while keeping their harmonious proportions, replacing damaged timber and rooftiles: this is a labor we undertake with our heart. Even for the new buildings, the Pond Villas, we used repurposed wood from traditional houses that were too small or too damaged to be recreated as such. We are proud to contribute to the preservation of Cambodian heritage, by giving a new life to these ancestral houses and allowing travelers to experience the feel of traditional countryside life while benefiting from the comfort of modern installations.