With Southwest territory style outside and a contemporary look inside, this home offers every comfort in an easygoing way
When this couple sat down with architect Mark Tate to plan their "forever house" in Arizona, they planned room for family members who don't even exist yet. The idea was to create a playful environment that their three grown children, the spouses and future grandchildren could enjoy. Of course, the home had to also suit the couple, who will be living here full time after retirement, as well as suit the neighborhood's strict style guidelines. The result is an eclectic contemporary home with the look and feel of a rehabbed territorial-style house.
Houzz at a Glance
Who lives here: A retired couple with 3 adult children
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
Size: 5,638 square feet; 5 bedrooms, 5 full bathrooms, 2 powder rooms
Located in the Whisper Rock community of Scottsdale, the property has easy access to some of the nation's best golf courses and vast views of Pinnacle Peak (right) and the McDowell Mountain Range.
Being part of the neighborhood means fitting in with certain style themes, so Tate created a unique Southwestern territorial-style house that contains a more contemporary interior plan.
Here's a plan to help you understand the layout. (I've flipped it around so that it is oriented more closely to the previous photograph.) In both images the driveway is tucked to the left side of the house and hidden. The entry sequence begins in the guest parking spots.
"The front door is not obvious; there's a path of discovery along the way," Tate describes. In collaboration with Mark Wdowiak of Desert Foothills Landscape, the designers created a memorable entry experience. This gate stands just beyond the guest parking spots and offers a preview of what's to come inside. Tate scored some beautiful 150-year-old wood barn beams from Kevin Holt of Yesterday's Timber and used them throughout the house.
A path of native stone pavers with irregular edges leads you through an open courtyard and up to a low wall with square peekaboo windows and an antique door.
"This part of the sequence infers an old-school hacienda courtyard, except that you can see right over the walls," Tate says. His associate Aileen Fabella designed the heavy territorial-style gate featuring another salvaged beam.
Beyond the gate, patio pavers create a gridded rhythm, signaling a transition between the desert wilderness and the built work.
"A peek into the courtyard shows you that the space is transitioning to that of an eclectic contemporary home and not what you'd expect," Tate says. From here you can see through the front door and all the way through the house to the other side of the yard. "This gives you a taste of what's beyond and entices you into the house," Tate says.
Also enhancing this transition is the beautiful exposed aggregate and integral-color stucco. The embedded stones bring pieces of the ground up the walls. Tate cannot sing enough praises forIngram & Walts Plastering, who completed this exterior stucco work. "It has the look and feel of rammed earth," he says.
Note the way the beams are also used as window lintels and the way the rafter tails stick out, hinting at the beams inside.
The courtyard is a wonderful place to be in the early morning and after sundown.
You enter the heart of the home through the double French doors between the kitchen and the main living areas. These rooms share a large vaulted roof, with the heavy beams overhead.
The homeowners wanted their unique art pieces to be the room's focal point, instead of the fireplace, which they use a few months out of the year. So Tate affixed beam ends to the wall for easy, changeable art displays.
A curved concrete and glass bar creates a hangout area between the kitchen and the living areas.
Fabella designed this unique light, which stands up to the scale of the space and incorporates the beams used throughout the home. Jeff Levkowitz ofSunlighting crafted her design.
Crossing beams bring the kitchen's ceiling height to a more intimate level. Large iron pieces as well as the leathered texture on the wood and the clavos (decorative nails) keep the territorial feeling. "We wanted it to feel warm and comfortable but not too theme-y," Tate says. Gold and dark brown granite picks up color from the wood.
The team mixed in reclaimed wood and used a wire brush on new woods to give the kitchen a more aged look.
The cozy breakfast nook is another intimate space within the open plan; it includes a small workstation. Again, the wooden beams are integrated, here in the tray ceiling and used for the built-in shelves.
This powder room was an opportunity to make some unique moves, including using one of the antique barn beams to support the stained concrete counter. Everything in here has rich texture. The sink is carved from a rock, and even the soap dispenser is crafted from a piece of basalt.
The end panel of the beam sticks out beyond a half-inch-thick steel plate. "There's a certain out-of-the-ground, raw feeling in here," Tate says.
Let's step back outside for some orientation. This is the back of the house; to the left is the great room, and to the right is the master suite. The house is all one floor; the small, square, high windows you see are clerestory windows. The covered patio's roof shades the windows and French doors.
One detail very important out here is the low matching wall closest to the edge; it's a fence that prevents rattlesnakes from slithering up and settling in on the patio. There's a subtle pool fence beyond the house, too; its low profile keep the views out to the desert very clear and makes the property feel very open to the landscape.
The floor plan offers you an idea of the layout and flow. In this view the front of the house is on the left.
The corrugated sheet metal roof adds to the rustic family ranch look. This is the master suite.
The main bedroom opens to the covered terrace. A fireplace with a cast-in-place concrete hearth tucks neatly into the corner.
A rippled glass partition stands between the vanity and the shower. A mirror hangs in front of it on the right side. This is his vanity; hers is just out of view on the right. "We gave his an old shaving-sink look," Tate says.
A covered outdoor kitchen and lounge off the family room feature a barbecue, bar and fire pit.
Sandblasted concrete pavers ease the transition from patio to desert.
Sunset is the best time for enjoying the vast outdoor space, which provides the most stunning natural light show around.
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