Madeira Home Boutique Resort Opens in Sonoma County, California

Madeira Home, an 11-room boutique resort in west Sonoma County, California, opened this summer season with sweeping views of the Russian River Valley and rugged coastal bluffs. Positioned lower than 80 miles from San Francisco within the small riverside city of Jenner, the resort includes three homes, a lush backyard, and a waterfront deck.

Madeira Home’s historical past dates again to 1916, when the primary constructing was constructed as a fisherman’s cabin. Over the next many years, the property expanded to develop into the Jenner Inn. In 2021, Jacqueline Gonçalves, founding father of design agency Moksa Studio and a former designer for Soho Home, partnered with co-owners Arthur Moretti, Ryan Shore, and Jeffrey Yamashiroya to buy and remodel the inn.

Gonçalves remembers being immediately captivated throughout her first go to to scout the resort, significantly the drive down Route 116 to Jenner.

“It was large nature, unbound,” she tells Journey + Leisure. “Large Sur with out the visitors. A single lane freeway carved via nature—redwood forests, outdated camps, huge pastures—then you definately come out onto the Pacific Coast Freeway with a transparent view of a river, cows grazing, rolling hills, and the horizon stretched out in entrance of you. It felt like a discovery.”

The unique Jenner Inn introduced each challenges and alternatives. Gonçalves describes discovering “hobbled-together structure with motel vibes all through: heavy Victorian furnishings, stained wall-to-wall carpet, cracked tile, and vinyl loos.” However she noticed the potential. “Regardless that the rooms’ furnishings had been dismal, all of them shared one factor: massive home windows with front-row views of nature.”

The renovation prioritized understated, high-quality supplies like wooden, wool, stone, and ceramics. Rooms characteristic domestically sourced antiques, upholstered furnishings, and chemical-free Keetsa mattresses. For chillier months, most lodging embrace fuel stoves and heated tile flooring. All loos are stocked with lavender-scented bathtub merchandise from a neighborhood firm.

Rooms additionally include camp kits full of all of the necessities for a nature-focused keep: provisions, drinks, blankets, picnic baskets, books, video games, and flashlights for night walks. There’s one factor friends received’t discover, although. “We ripped all of the TVs off the partitions,” Gonçalves says. “A go to to Madeira Home is about unplugging. Should you’re not out in nature, you’re getting quiet in your room, watching wildlife from the window, stargazing on the balcony, breaking bread, or having fun with a bottle with mates.” (Complimentary Wi-Fi is out there.)

The waterfront resort contains a communal deck with a small eating space, whereas the Madeira Backyard has outside seating, eating house, and a fuel firepit for night gatherings. A forthcoming on-site market will carry native provisions, regional specialties, and items.

The resort’s location affords fast entry to a plethora of outside actions and native points of interest. Guests can hike scenic trails and picnic on the close by Jenner Headlands Protect, discover the Russian River Estuary, golf among the many redwoods, or kayak to Penny Island for walks to Goat Rock Seaside.

“What’s so unbelievable about west Sonoma and Jenner is that it’s quiet; there aren’t herds of individuals on trails or on the seashore,” Gonçalves says. “We hope to steward the land as an escape, because it has been for hundreds of years.”

Nightly charges at Madeira Home begin from $300, and you may e book your keep at themadeirahouse.com.