Sydney Watson’s Westbay glass oasis
GLASS WAS invented some 4,000 years ago and is one of the most treasured materials known to humankind.
It has revolutionised the architectural landscape with its fascinating appearance and unique qualities, modernising the constructed spaces it shapes and encloses. Here is a house of glass, one of Jamaica’s newest ‘wow’ homes just completed in January of this year, in a secured, concealed fraternity of other dream home owners, in Westbay, Whitehouse, Westmoreland. It took a little over a year to complete this consummate spatial experience.
What a majestic presence on the waterfront Jamaica, going to Hampton Girls’ School. She pursued studies at Suffolk University in Boston, graduating Cum Laude with a double major in finance and global business.
Sydney, a twin, has said the contemporary architecture makes, opening up its minimalist interior to the irresistible maritime outdoors, through walls and walls of sheer glass. We see and feel its transparency transmitting direct solar radiation throughout, dispensing wellness to its occupants.
The 5,900-square-foot main house, with flat roof, devoid of unnecessary frills, occupies a quarter of an acre with a detached self-contained onebedroom apartment upon it. We count four balconied rooms that encourage sleep rather quickly, along with en suite bathrooms. The principal prides itself with his and her double sinks in a marble countertop, along with a soaking tub submerging you in its pacifying waters.
The open-plan dining and living areas (with white porcelain tiles and white walls), embrace in awe goodbye to Ernst and Young, one of the largest global consulting firms, where she worked, in favour of returning to the island to live out her dreams because living elsewhere, honestly, has never felt like home! its seafront verandah by the zeroentry, infinity swimming pool, with its sloping entrance, while the dining counter kitchen cooks up a storm, accentuated by white cabinetry and marble counters. A glass-railed, see-through, open riser floating staircase ascends to the other level.
The heavenly outdoors scream euphoria with a pool bar, a cabana to laze in, an outdoor shower, an outdoor kitchen to stuff your face, and a Jacuzzi built into the rocky shoreline massaging you to bliss. A private beach nearby offers exclusive use.
Meet Sydney Watson, the 24-year-old good humoured, zestful lady who conceived this villa for herself and family, hiring an architect online from India. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, to a Jamaica-born father and an American mother, but raised in