Southwestern Homes & Living
second nature
A young Santa Fe couple embraces a new spin on the city’s signature style with an innovative green home inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s classic organic design.
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the place to be
Explore three one-of-a-kind kitchens designed to be shared and enjoyed—and look great while doing so.
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at ease with tradition
An elegant family home steeped in New Mexican style and Rio Grande Valley history gracefully balances grand rooms with intimate spaces.
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high desert modern
An Albuquerque architect creates a rambling contemporary showplace with warm livability and sun-worshipping outdoor amenities just for her family.
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From entertainment Eden to xeric oasis, exterior design gets personal at two unique expressions of at-home outdoor living.
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green's anatomy
The Emerald Home in Santa Fe reaches the ambitious goal of carbon neutrality, delivering a triple threat of green inspiration, technical innovation, and exceptional beauty.
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building a healthy home
In pursuit of a peaceful place, a couple creates a serene backdrop for family life shaped from natural materials, artful aesthetics, and earth-conscious choices for mindful living.
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A bright new kitchen, expanded rooms, and lower energy bills breathe new life into a 1930s bungalow that still fits its original footprint.
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new kid on the block
Designed to fit its historic Albuquerque neighborhood like a glove, an architect’s new downtown home makes a splash with bright color, intimate courtyards, and bold architectural features.
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heavy lifting with a light touch
A remodel steeped in Santa Fe style deftly matches modern updates to the wavering imperfections of an old adobe home.
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inside story
From her shadow box artwork to her storied eastside Santa Fe adobe, Lucinda Hoyt fashions her personal experience and singular style into a world all her own.
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Geometry meets poetry when a first-rate architect, great builder, and terrific clients converge on a peerless site.
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backyard bliss
Two distinct New Mexico landscapes inspire designs for outdoor living grown from unique visions of regional flora and site-specific outdoor architecture.
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mud slinger
The desire to live simply inspires a Californian to move to the country and rescue a crumbling adobe at the confluence of two rivers.read more
the good life
A California couple make the move to New Mexico for a peaceful new life in their art-filled retreat minutes from Taos Ski Valley.
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green from the ground up
Traditional farming meets 21st-century sensibilities at an off-the-grid greenstead where an inventive family is sowing the seeds of a sustainable future.
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true to form
For one Corrales, New Mexico, couple and architect/designer team, renovating a worn-out adobe house with elegant lines and spaces created the opportunity for place-sensitive design that harmonizes with the village’s rich architectural heritage.
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urban ambition
Though firmly grounded in its venerable Albuquerque neighborhood, this Su Casa Magazine/AIA award-winning home embodies the city’s transition from adobe past to digital future.
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still trapped
In this adaptation of material drawn from his award-winning book River of Traps, author William deBuys finds that even a new house and the passage of time can’t weaken the connections to land and community in a tiny New Mexican mountain village—or dim the lessons learned from a wise norteño neighbor.
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picture perfect
Nestled in a hilly village north of Santa Fe, this tasteful home proves that adobe done right embodies classic New Mexico tradition.
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cooking with the queen of chile
When legendary Southwestern cook and chile expert Jane Butel needed a new location for her cooking schools, she set up shop in her own kitchen. Get cooking with a sampling of Jane’s New Mexican recipes.
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Santa Fe calling
An old adobe charms Bay Area designer Linda Applewhite into applying her life’s work to the City Different.
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cozy jewel
Artist Diane Moreno found a rickety shack above the Pecos River and created a uniquely rustic hideaway that feels a million miles away from her Wichita, Kansas, roots.
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adobe designer throws a curve
Designer and builder Mike Fischer creates a dramatic expression of adobe architecture with the aptly named Crescent House near Santa Fe.
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true to tradition
Award-winning architect Edmund Boniface hews close to the roots of Santa Fe style while incorporating modern materials and construction techniques.
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into the Sandia skyline
Drawing inspiration from the soaring sky and the nearby Sandia Mountains, architect Cindy Terry designs an award-winning masterwork.
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hands across the generations
Multiple generations share a rich tradition of owner-built homes and true community in northern New Mexico.
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a fresh perspective
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Architect Carlos Kinsey designs a striking hilltop house near Cerrillos, New Mexico, that exploits mining-area architecture and an
eco-friendly sensibility.
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hope triumphs
Out of the Cerro Grande Fire’s destruction rises an inspired home designed by the late architect George Pearl in Los Alamos.
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line of sight
In the foothills above Santa Fe, artist Hillary Riggs fashions a home from her aesthetic vision of color, texture, and form.
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myths, memories, reflections
From then to now, the basic facts of village life
shape experience in northern New Mexico.
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trading places on Route 66
From longhorns to an Eye Dazzler rug, the author’s collection of family memorabilia recalls a vanished way of life.
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