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Really beautiful with a beautiful view! I really like the unusual shower in the last photo, and the details are really nice!

A unique and beautiful home in a spectacular setting. This is FAR from the usual stock plan subdivision house usually posted here. Congratulations and enjoy your lovely new home!

What a stunning house that works so well with its environment. I love all the details that speak to where you live. It is exactly the style house I would want if I were living in NM. I also love how you combined old with new. Really a spectacular job.

PS: You can be forgiven for that stunning barn door. LOL.

Love the kitchen with all those windows!

Someone has an amazing eye for detail and design. With this kind of talent, an architect was obviously not needed. Absolutely stunning. Your window color is such a lovely choice.

Thank you for sharing.

Very nicely done! And, I don't think that counts as the sliding barn door that gets picked on here :).

Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful house, and so different from what we have here in the Carolinas!

Wonderful house and spectacular views. It really looks like it belongs on the site and has been there forever.

Well done!

This house looks spectacular. I am assuming you used an architect for your project since this is a custom build. Your architect did a good job designing it to fit in with the land.

A truly unique house that fits so beautifully into its surroundings. Congratulations, and wishing you many happy years in your new house!

Wow, very very nice. Love the beams!

stunning

As Kyn said, STUNNING, Ah that is not a barn door ;-) Not my style being an east coast guy, but if it were given to me i'd take it in a heartbeat and say thank you very much !!!!!!!!!!!!!! no architect huh, so tell us the story behind the design? You must be in builder/construction trade.

I absolutely love your place!!!!

Holy cow that's gorgeous! I lost track of all the things I want to compliment. I love that entry, with the blue door and tiled steps. Overall it looks like a true labor of love with attention to every detail. Congrats!

Oh my. I don’t even know where to start. It’s absolutely gorgeous. The front door with different tiled steps, the window color, and all of the amazing details inside are utterly perfect. Also, I really want to take a bath in that tub. Is that crossing into creepy territory? I don’t even care.

Congratulations! I hope that your family enjoys this home for many years to come.

It is breathtaking...and yet, it does feel like it has been there forever. What a wonderful home.

Absolutely stunning! Love the shower and so very envious of your New Mexico-blue sky. :)

Wow! That is one stunning house! Congrats

Your home is stunning. I'd say this is one of the best examples I've seen on this forum (or anywhere) of a house design both exterior and interior perfectly fitting to it's surroundings. Love it!

This is not a style I'm familiar with - but after looking at your photos I've developed a liking for a whole new architectural style. The amount of detail is mind blowing.

Absolutely beautiful. If doing GW sins results in such an awesome home, I am all game for such sins. Congratulations on your new home.

Thanks to everyone for their kind words about our home.

When my wife and I decided to retire to New Mexico, we looked at many existing houses and decided that those in the pueblo revival style most appealed to us as authentic to this area. So when we made the choice to build, we sought out the most able practitioners of this style. Not architects, but a talented design-build team consisting of a husband and wife who share an artistic vision and have a wealth of practice in building pueblo revival, among other styles. They deserve to be recognized and so I want to thank them here by name: Wayne & Kiki Suggs of Classic New Mexico Homes.

Lastly, a comment about the sliding barn door entrance to our kitchen pantry. We decided the door was too good to pass up on when we found out its history: the Suggs' creative cabinetmaker reworked it from the salvaged entryway to an 1880s-era saloon in Bisbee, Arizona. So naturally, the pantry is where we keep the hard stuff!

I love your story of the home and the door! What wonderful history to incorporate into your new home.

Classic New Mexico Homes.

And here I thought Walter White's home was the epitome of suburban New Mexico!

Wonderful organic build looking, quite appropriately, at the Organ Mountains.

I'll be short, unlike usual-WOW

Here's to many happy years in this wonderful, warm, unique house..it does look like it was born there, and that's the biggest compliment a house might get. Building becomes creation.

And somehow the little buddha in the shower looks right at home.

So wonderful, all around. And no snow.

Wow- gorgeous home. Just looking at a few pictures, it's obvious that lots of thought went into every detail - perfection

What an absolutely beautiful home. Congratulations!

Stunning home and setting. Congratulations on a job well done and a beautiful home.

Would one of these houses, WHICH ARE BEAUTIFUL look out
of place in the Golden Isles of Ga overlooking 2 miles of marsh and rivers????
;-) And I wouldn't care if it was !!!! Love the look but hate the Not GREEN habitat,
had to spend weeks in the high desert of Ca many times and was glad to get back
to east coast.

If you don't mind answering a question about cost, these
look very expensive, approx. cost per sq foot?????

Oh my gosh... that is BEAUTIFUL! I actually gasped when I saw the pictures. Best wishes in your new home!

Awesome house. It has that "accumulated one room at a time" outline that old adobes have.

Las Cruces? Those mountains look familiar.

I'm curious about the door in the 4th picture. It's a step up to what?

Oh wow. Do you mind sharing the paint/finish color of your beautiful green island?

Some answers to your questions:

If you don't mind answering a question about cost, these look very expensive, approx. cost per sq foot?????

Excluding the price of land, landscaping and solar panel installation, the cost of our build was around $260 per square foot.

Las Cruces? Those mountains look familiar.

Good eye! Yes, we're in Las Cruces and, as noted by Worthy, those are the Organ mountains.

I'm curious about the door in the 4th picture. It's a step up to what?

The home is single story with no steps anywhere except outside at the courtyard front gate. The "step up" you see is just the coat closet. The builders maintain an eclectic collection of pieces that can be added to make each of their homes unique. In this case, they found a pair of antique cabinet doors from India to cover the closet. We thought the doors added a nice accent and since the coat closet is reach-in, we saw no harm in using doors that don't reach to the floor.

Do you mind sharing the paint/finish color of your beautiful green island?

Alas, I can't tell you the specifics of the island color. The builders' cabinet guy is expert at making new furniture look antique by using his own method of applying multiple layers and colors of paint and glazes. (But I do hope he can duplicate it in case we need to do some touch-up!)

Wow!! You house is absolutely stunning. Each picture made my jaw drop. I love how everything looks unique and custom and all the rooms seem to flow together beautifully. Congratulations on a drop dead gorgeous house!

This is not a style I typically gravitate towards but after seeing your home, I can be swayed. It's absolutely gorgeous. The details and style choices are fantastic and I'm now obsessed with that white tile floor you have in your bathroom in the first round of pics. Well done!

Your home is stunning, and an excellent lesson in showing that you get what you pay for. Exceptional quality that will stand the test of time.

The best home on Houzz! It looks like 5,000 -6,000 sq ft. Is that right?

The best home on Houzz! It looks like 5,000 -6,000 sq ft. Is that right?

Thanks for your compliment! Our home is not nearly so grand at only around half that size.

one of my all-time favorites. Your house. Your builder is very talented for sure-and something tells me you are too. I shared your house with my friends when you first posted..I hope you don't mind. I was so taken with it. And I revisit this thread from time to time.

The video doesn't show on my screen for whatevr reason-but thank you for sharing your amazing builder's name.

(does he know somebody in So Cal he can recommend? a surfaces guy, like stucco or plaster or tile? lol. I'm joking. But great craftsmen and artisans happen to know other great craftsmen and artisans)

I thought readers of this thread might enjoy seeing our New Mexico home from a different perspective than that shown up-thread. So here's a pictorial update thanks to someone who recently flew a drone past our house and posted an aerial photo. (And if you look closely on the right side of the house you can see my wife filling a watering can and me on the patio trying to hide behind a porch column!)

I just happened upon this, your home is beautiful! I'll read comments, but, I just what to congratulate you on a beautiful home! (I know, mine didn't have a perfect ending)!

Leslie, isn't this house just stunning?