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This 78-Year-Old Built Her Dream Home Inside a Cave — And the Interior Is Nothing Like You’d Imagine

The Bedroom That Sleeps Like a Burrow

Marta’s bedroom sits deeper inside the cave, where the outside noise barely reaches. There are no traffic sounds here, no barking dogs from the road, no neighbor’s radio drifting through an open window. There is only a soft hush that makes even the smallest movement feel gentle. The bed rests inside a rounded stone alcove, almost as if the cave itself has made space for it. Pale linen sheets cover the mattress, a thick quilt lies folded at the end, and two reading lamps cast warm circles of light against the rock. Above the bed, the natural ceiling curves downward slightly, creating the strange but comforting feeling of sleeping inside a protective shell.