CreandaCollective

Casa del Juniper

The project's first home

A stone house in Macchia Valfortore where the vision becomes a physical place: meeting point, work environment, accommodation and the heart of the pilot.

What the house offers

The pool and pergola at Casa del Juniper with Lake Occhito in the distance

Pool and pergola with lake view

A 5 × 4 metre pool and an outdoor dining spot for six under the pergola — overlooking Lake Occhito.

Ripe figs growing near Casa del Juniper

A garden full of fruit

Olives, figs, plums, hazelnuts, walnuts, persimmon, pomegranate, quince, peach, cherry and mulberry — pick whatever is in season.

Aerial panorama of Casa del Juniper with solar panels on the roof, the pool and the pergola in the garden

A place all to yourselves

House, pool area and orchard on a hillside of its own — private and undisturbed, yet only a short walk from the village.

Sleeps six

A family or a small team under one roof

Starlink mesh wifi

Fast internet indoors and in the garden

AC in every bedroom

Cool nights all summer

Kitchen with gas hob

Cook the Italian way, over a flame

Espresso machine

With milk frother for cappuccino mornings

Balcony over Occhito

Morning coffee with a lake view

Solar powered

Rooftop panels run the house on sun

EV charger

Charge your car while you work

The lake and the hills around Macchia at dusk
The pool at Casa del Juniper overlooking the lake and the surrounding hills
Hand-picking ripe olives in the grove

The story

Every movement needs a home. Casa del Juniper is where Creanda starts: a house a short walk outside Macchia Valfortore, restored to host work, learning and life under one roof. It is not a rental property — it is the project's heart and its proof that the vision is real.

The place

Macchia Valfortore is a hilltop village in Molise, southern Italy, overlooking Lake Occhito and the surrounding hills. Rome and Naples are within reach; silence, nature and genuine village life are right outside the door.

Connected to the village

The house works together with the village, not instead of it. Visitors eat in local restaurants, stay in local rooms when the house is full, and meet the people who make the area what it is.

Macchia Valfortore from above at sunset