Madeira's winters are mild — on paper. Ocean humidity and unheated stone tell a different story: interiors that hold a damp chill from December to March. Ask anyone who has wintered in a typical villa here. Then ask why a €2 million property leaves you standing on cold tile in February.
The answer is simple: floor heating is standard in every Nordic home, and almost universally absent here. Not because it does not work in this climate — because the market never demanded it.
Villa Luis has water-based underfloor heating in every room, zoned. Water-based, because it heats evenly and silently, with no dry blown air. Every room, because comfort is not a living-room feature. Zoned, because your bedroom at night and your office at noon do not want the same temperature — and you should not pay to heat rooms you are not using.
Radiant floor heat warms the surfaces your body touches first. Even air temperature, warm feet, no cold zones at ankle height — this is the layer of daily comfort you stop noticing precisely because it is always right. It also removes the humidity chill that makes unheated Madeira interiors feel colder than the thermometer says.