About Us


Ana Muñoz Lopera and Steve Stockermans are the builders and owners of the GREEN HOUSE. Ana is Spanish, a native of Logroño, and an artist. She designed and decorated the house and the furniture.
Ana is also a certified and experienced Spanish and English language teacher.

Steve is from Montreal, Canada and has lived and worked in many countries around the world as an economic journalist and a language teacher. He has always loved to work with his hands, and this house is the product of three years of work, together with Ana.

Now while Ana runs the B and B, Steve is building Canadian style wood frame houses in northern Spain.

They have five children, ages ten, eight, five and two and a new baby, Sara Mizuki.  The older boys, Christopher Tsubasa and Juan are born in Nagano, Japan. The family lived in this exciting place for eight years where they owned a small language school and worked actively in the Winter Olympics of 1998.
Desirée and Nico and Sara are born in Spain.

"When we decided to build a big house and make it into a B and B," explained Ana, "we wanted to build a place like the ones that we always loved to stay at."

And what kind of place is that?

"A friendly home, not just a hotel. A place where I could meet other people, not just the owners of the B and B, but the other guests. I want to talk and learn about the places other people come from and where they have been. That is my way of travelling now."


They describe themselves as globalists - "What's an internationalist if there are no nations?"
"What I want to teach my children most of all, " said Steve, "Is that people are people no matter where you go, no matter what they look like. I know it sounds stupid, but it is very hard to get rid of prejudices that have build up in our society for hundreds of years."
They are parents and teachers. "I love to teach people who love to learn. I don't care who they are, just as long as they love to learn," said Ana.
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La Casa Verde,
Valdegarea, 12
Islallana, La Rioja, España
26121
tel/fax +34(941)442155
móvil 665 939 690
info@casaverde.org