The Bali | Modern Bali Style House Design in Fort Lauderdale
The Bali | Modern Bali Style House Design in Fort Lauderdale
There's a moment when you walk into certain homes where you stop talking. Not because there's nothing to say—but because it takes a second for your brain to catch up to what your eyes are seeing. That's The Bali.
Designed by CMA Architects and built by Landmark Custom Homes in Fort Lauderdale, The Bali is a 22,235-square-foot residence (26,487 total SF) that doesn't feel like a house at all. It feels like a destination. The kind you've visited somewhere between Seminyak and Ubud, where the architecture seems to grow out of the landscape rather than sit on top of it. Except this one is private, and it's yours.
This is what a genuinely realized modern Bali style house design looks like when it's built without compromise.
What Makes a Home "Modern Bali Style"
The word "Bali" gets used frequently in luxury real estate. Infinity pools. Rattan accents. A carved wooden door. But authentic Balinese architecture is something far more considered than a mood board aesthetic.
Rooted in Hindu-Balinese philosophy, traditional Balinese design is built around the idea that a home should exist in harmony with its natural surroundings, not impose on them. Water flows through a property, not just sits at the edge of it. Open-air pavilions invite the outside in. Natural materials like stone, teak, and carved volcanic rock aren't decoration; they're the architecture. Layers of pitched rooflines reflect the island's sacred temple structures. The effect is a space that feels simultaneously grand and grounded.
A contemporary Bali home design takes all of that intention and pairs it with the comforts and technology of modern luxury living. The Bali showcases beautiful living at a scale that most people have only ever experienced in a five-star resort.
The Architecture: CMA Architects
CMA Architects brought the conceptual vision for The Bali to life, and the ambition was clear from the start. This wasn't going to be a house with tropical touches. It was going to be a full architectural commitment to Balinese design principles, executed at over 26,000 square feet in South Florida.
The rooflines alone tell you something is different here. Multi-tiered, steeply pitched, and layered in a way that echoes Bali's iconic pura (temple) structures, they give the home a silhouette that reads immediately as something other than a typical luxury build. Open-air pavilions extend living spaces outward. The relationship between interior rooms and exterior environments is intentionally blurred: you're meant to move between them without really noticing the transition.
Natural materials anchor every surface. Stone. Teak. Water running through the property not as a pool feature but as a design element. At this scale, getting those details right requires a level of architectural and construction coordination that most builders simply don't have the experience to pull off.
Life Inside The Bali
Square footage numbers are easy to quote. What's harder to convey is how a home actually feels to live in: how the spaces connect, how the design serves daily life, and whether the "luxury features" are genuinely useful or just impressive on paper.
At The Bali, they're both.
A Wellness Suite Worth Staying Home For
The home's wellness spaces are the kind that make you cancel spa appointments and indulge at home. A private sauna and steam room, indoor cold plunge, dedicated massage room, and personal salon are all integrated into the home's design from the ground up, sharing mechanical systems, flowing naturally within the floor plan, and finished to the same standard as every other space in the house.
This is one of the things we write about in our guide to luxury home features: the difference between a wellness space that feels like an add-on and one that feels like it was always supposed to be there. The Bali is the latter.
The Gym and Golf Simulator
The private gym here isn't simply a spare room with a Peloton. It's a full-scale fitness facility—reinforced flooring, mirrored walls, proper acoustics, integrated AV—designed around serious training. The golf simulator room is built to actual spec, with ceiling heights and impact protection that make it functional year-round for you and your guests.
Entertainment That Actually Flows
The Bali's entertainment spaces were designed with the same fluidity as the rest of the home. Flexible rooms with glass entry doors, automated shades, and subtle acoustic treatment shift effortlessly between media lounge, gathering space, and game room, without ever feeling like they're working against you.
Technology You Don't Have to Think About
The home runs on the Josh AI smart home platform, which is a significant step above the consumer-grade systems most people are familiar with. Built specifically for high-end residential use, it's encrypted, reliable, and genuinely intuitive. Lighting scenes, climate, motorized shades, AV—all of it works together through voice or app. The goal is a home that responds to you without requiring you to manage it.
Why Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale is a genuinely different kind of South Florida address. It has the waterfront and the climate, but it also has a sophistication that can get overlooked. A serious restaurant scene, a growing arts and cultural presence, easy access to the airport, and proximity to Miami without the density. For a home like The Bali—architecturally ambitious, designed for private living, built at resort scale—Fort Lauderdale is a fitting home.
The city's established luxury market also means that a contemporary Bali home design of this quality doesn't feel out of place. It raises the bar.
What Makes This Different from a Big House With Nice Features
Here's something worth saying plainly: a lot of large homes are just large. They have the square footage and the finishes, but the spaces don't really talk to each other. The features feel bolted on. The architecture doesn't have a point of view.
The Bali is the opposite of that. Every decision, from the roofline to the placement of water features to the integration of the wellness suite, serves a coherent design philosophy. Landmark coordinated with CMA Architects, interior designers, wellness consultants, and technology specialists from the beginning of the project, not at the end. That's why the smart home system feels invisible rather than intrusive. It's why the spa spaces feel native to the home rather than added in. It's why, at over 26,000 square feet, the home doesn't feel overwhelming—it feels like it was made for the people living in it.
That coordination is what our process is built around.
See It Yourself
Words and specs only tell part of the story. Explore the Bali's portfolio page for full imagery of the details of this home.
If you've been thinking about building in Fort Lauderdale and haven't quite been able to picture what is possible for a modern Bali style home, this is a helpful project to explore.
Thinking About Building in South Florida?
The Bali is one example of what happens when an ambitious design vision meets a builder with the experience and coordination to actually execute it. It's not the only kind of home we build (you can explore more of our portfolio to view a variety of luxury styles), but The Bali illustrates how we approach every project: with attention to the whole, not just the parts.
If you're in the early stages of thinking through your own home or even just starting to ask questions, reach out and start the conversation with one of our owners. We build custom landmarks across Fort Lauderdale and throughout South Florida, and we're happy to walk you through what the process looks like from the start.