From the open great room of Sky View Homes’ Parade model on Albuquerque’s Westside, large windows frame views of the nearby bosque, the city stretching beyond the river, and the mountains ahead. The tall windows follow the gentle curve of the perimeter of the house and seem to invite in the backyard and the sky itself.

“We try to bring the experience of the Southwest inside the home,” says Scott Patrick Schiabor, owner of Sky View Homes and Scott Patrick Homes. “In so many communities, you could be in New York or California. Hopefully you know you’re in New Mexico here.”

From its understated exterior to the copious glimpses of blue sky through windows and skylights, the home achieves Schiabor’s goal—it is distinctly New Mexican. But with its outlook on the Sandia Mountains and Rio Grande bosque, it is also unmistakably Albuquerque.

 

 

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