Stories Published in Scottsdale Living

Hacienda de Primavera

Scottsdale Living, Spring 2013

The owners call their desert mountainside home “Hacienda del Sueño” (“Dream Home”), but the moniker could also be “Home of Spring” — “Hacienda de Primavera.” Built by Scottsdale’s La Casa Builders, the 7,248-square-foot Modern Hacienda eloquently expresses the owners’ vision, flexing for a multi-faceted lifestyle that finds them as much outside as in — particularly in spring, when the desert effloresces before it sizzles. The three-bedroom one-story, plus single-bedroom semi-attached casita, is meticulously sited in north Phoenix on a one-acre triangular lot, delivering imposing southside views of Camelback Mountain. The owners, for sure, joy in their home: “It makes it easy to have sweet dreams,” the wife says.

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The Way it Was at DC Ranch

Scottsdale Living, Summer 2012

This young family, with three boys, uses all 13,128 square feet of their Southwest-Mediterranean-style DC Ranch in north Scottsdale. Incorporating the spirit of the parents’ Midwest backgrounds, the golf-course-lot home by Scottsdale-based La Casa Builders includes five bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a five-car garage and a detached casita, all of which the couple generously opens for friends and family. “We wanted the amenities of a master-planned community and the fabric of a traditional community,” one owner says. “We wanted a home where the children can ride their bikes down the street and go to school with the same children they play football with.”

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