Dec 15, 2013 | Design Styles
Due to the abundance of hills and small mountains in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area, many of the most desirable homesites in our area are on the sides of hills. As anyone who has been to the beautiful Medieval towns of France, Italy and Greece has seen, hillside building...
Dec 15, 2013 | Design Styles
Adobe construction is one of the first building materials used by ancient human beings, and is a good building method in warm, dry climates such as the Southwestern portion of the United States. Variations of adobe built structures go back thousands of years, and...
Dec 1, 2013 | Design Styles
The comfortable feeling of a ranch home in the Western U.S. has been a popular architectural and design style in the last half of the 20th Century and into the 21st Century. It might be viewed as the western equivalent of the eastern and Midwestern farmhouse style....
Nov 29, 2013 | Design Styles
The Tuscan interior design style is full of simple, rustic charm and inspired by the country homes of central Italy’s wine country. Traditionally, the farmhouses in this region were made out of readily available materials such as straw, limestone, clay and wood....
Nov 12, 2013 | Design Styles
Traditional interior design is based upon the styles of Western homes built during the 18th-and-19th centuries. Furniture is the commanding characteristic of traditional design, drawing heavily on Northern European design styles from that same era, such as Queen Anne,...
