NAPLES, Fla. (Nov. 18, 2014) – London Bay Homes has started construction on a new Capriano model, a luxury single-family villa in Lucarno, a European-inspired village enclave in Mediterra’s Garden Neighborhood.

The first Capriano model, which sold soon after its completion earlier this year, won a 2014 Aurora Award for interior design.

The four-bedroom, four-bath model will be designed by Romanza Interior Design’s Jennifer Stevens, who created the interiors for the Aurora winner, recognized among the best in the Southeastern U.S. The home is expected to open for viewing in February 2015 in Mediterra, Collier County’s eight-time community of the year and Naples’ premier golf and beach club.

The Capriano will offer a library, wine room and a home office next to the kitchen. The model is being built with a second floor, featuring a guest suite, full bath, morning kitchen/wet bar and a bonus room, shown as a media center.

“This model has a really nice, open sundeck on the second floor overlooking the pool,” said Stevens.

The Capriano model offers 4,402 square feet under air and will be shown with the pool, a spa and summer kitchen.

The home design will feature neutral and white backgrounds with pops of bright blue, greens and yellows, and a beamed ceiling in the generously sized great room.

Mediterra’s last Stevens-designed Capriano model sold for more than $2.1 million.

The popular open floor plan appeals to homebuyers who enjoy entertaining inside and out, with the great room offering seating and dining areas that flow into the adjoining kitchen and out sliding glass doors to a large outdoor living area.

The kitchen offers a freestanding breakfast bar island, a walk-in pantry and built-in desk for a home office.

The Capriano’s master suite features a large bedroom, combined walk-in closet, and hallway doors opening to the pool courtyard. Its bathroom offers his-and-her vanities, a water closet, separate shower, and a garden tub nestled into a bay window.

London Bay Homes is the exclusive builder in the 71-home Lucarno, a neighborhood of luxury maintenance-free villas with cobblestone streets, lakes and garden. The more than 60 percent sold neighborhood features homes accented with tile, stone entry walls and authentic Old World architectural finishes.

Landscape maintenance and lawn care are provided through the homeowners association.

Lucarno is located in Mediterra’s Garden Neighborhood next to the community’s largest park, the Parterre Gardens, featuring formal gardens, fountained lake views, sitting areas, and a large reflecting pond with decorative stone frog waterspouts.

The luxury home builder offers two- to five-bedroom floor plans in Lucarno, ranging from 2,900 to more than 4,000 square feet of interior living space. Each home features numerous options that allow buyers to customize their home by extending lanais and garages, adding bedrooms, dens, studies and wine rooms, and selecting indoor and outdoor fireplaces, summer kitchens, loggias and porticos.

All London Bay Homes are built using the latest information, products and technology available in building science, including the BEP Blue Barrier moisture barrier system that protects against mold issues and structural damage from moisture intrusion.

Home and homesite packages in Lucarno are priced from the $900,000s to more than $7 million.

Mediterra received a 2013 Aurora Award for Best Residential Development in the Southeastern United States and ranks as one of the top private clubs in the world by BoardRoom magazine.

The 1,700-acre community offers an array of lifestyle amenities, including the member-owned Club at Mediterra with two world-class Fazio-designed courses and the private 10,000-square-foot Beach Club on the Gulf of Mexico, featuring an elevated swimming pool, casual dining with a full bar, and valet service for beach chairs, umbrellas, and beverage and food menus.

Mediterra’s onsite amenities include themed neighborhood parks; eight miles of walking and jogging trails; a fitness complex with tennis and bocce courts, a pool and spa services.

A recent renovation project at the 32,000-square-foot clubhouse updated the interior design of the main dining room, expanded the Club Lounge and kitchen, and introduced al fresco dining options, an exposition kitchen and chef’s table.

The club and Tavern on 18 offer formal and casual dining prepared by a staff of award-winning culinary experts. Additional renovations to the tavern added a fire pit to the popular lounge, which serves gourmet brick-oven pizzas, seasonal salads and open-air grilled entrées.

On the links, Mediterra is in the first year of a two-year $6.1 million project to replace the irrigation system, bunkers, cart paths and turf on its South Course.

Mediterra’s Golf Learning Center offers indoor and outdoor hitting stations, video equipment with launch monitor, a 2.5-acre short game practice complex with three greens, and a staff of certified PGA professionals. Membership opportunities at Mediterra are limited to just 225 members per 18 holes.

All of the community’s amenities are membership-owned.

Mediterra’s master plan includes more than 1,000 acres dedicated to open space with golf, parks and nature preserves.

Since December 2009, London Bay Homes and affiliates have managed all new home sales and marketing for the luxury community. Resale properties are listed through Mediterra Realty.

Available home designs in Mediterra include single-family estate homes and single-family maintenance-free villas priced from the $800,000s to more than $7 million.

For more information about Mediterra, visit www.MediterraNaples.com, call 239-949-8989, or visit Mediterra, located on Livingston Road, two miles north of Immokalee Road and west of I-75.