designer home & garden tour

On Friday, September 30th & Saturday, October 1st, SFIDP sponsors their 7th Annual self-guided Designer Home & Garden Tour. This popular event allows design enthusiasts a glimpse into custom home interiors decorated by local designers for their Santa Fe clients.

 

homes, gardens & designers

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Good interior design can have a transformative effect on people’s lives, and Edy Keeler creates those transformations via her well-honed color sense and artistic vision. Inspired by nature’s palette, she creates eye-pleasing contrasts and individualized designs, introducing her clients to innovative ways to employ color to freshen, renew, and revitalize their space. Another hallmark of her work is the array of textures and finishes she brings together—stucco, plaster, wood stains, tile, stone, lighting, carpets, and textiles.

“We had admired Edy’s work on the Parade of Homes, and when we decided to move from traditional styling to contemporary, we tracked her down. It’s a spec condominium project on the Santa Fe River, and the budget was important. The result? We love it, our market loves it, and we look forward to the next one.” —Dina and Jeff Major, Major Development. Modern but warm, with spicy color accents both inside and out, and a large expanse of neutral, stonelike flooring that fairly sparkles, it draws you into the sixteen- foot-high great room. Featuring a soaring fireplace wall in honed kota green limestone.  A luxurious master bath, in gold-green slate, and an amazingly light and airy kitchen with warm hard-surface counters, glass backsplashes. The charcoal hardwood balcony loft overlooking the great room is a special place to cozy up with a book or a craft, and catch the Sangre views.

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Solange studied at the University of Buenos Aires completing a program inclusive of architecture, agricultural science and landscape architecture, with a final thesis in “Healing Gardens”. Her studio Serquis + Associates has provided independent design work and successfully collaborated in teams for more than fifteen years designing landscapes for commercial, public, community, and social projects. The emphasis lies on native plantings, aesthetics, human comfort, and the “connection between people and places”.

The design process included a study of the residence’s past and present to ensure a seamless continuation. The design approach accomplished the clients’ vision and will evolve over time. Doug McDowell brought the history of the surroundings to the site, incorporating the streetscape and the neighborhood feeling into the six-house compound. Materials and construction techniques were chosen to delight the senses while being sensitive to the natural ecosystem by using permeable pavers and water re-use systems. We planted the trees before constructing the walls of the property. The challenge to protect the trees during the building period was worth it! The house now has two patios or “Placitas” in the front and back, both offering the refreshing green of leaves from well established trees in a newly constructed compound, providing a refined background for the owners’ art collection.

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Douglas McDowell
A long time Santa Fean, Doug McDowell has worked in the construction business for his entire adult life.  He served his apprenticeship and worked on site before he founded his own company in 1974. Doug has worked closely with local, national and international architects and in 2009 joined together with Jim Satzinger to provide professional design and construction services with an eye to impeccable customer service, buildable homes and quality. Doug credits his team’s success to the mutual respect required by all team members towards each other. “In the custom home business the finished product includes many peoples talents, craftsmanship and people skills. Our work would not be possible without the team of professionals that work together daily”.

James Satzinger
Jim Satzinger has specialized in custom homes, residential developments, and exclusive commercial projects since 1973.  He works closely with clients to help them realize their vision and help them maximize the potential of their property.  A licensed architect in New Mexico, California and Hawaii, and a licensed builder and general contractor in California and New Mexico, he brings to each project a full understanding of the entire design and building process, as well as a seasoned aesthetic sensibility.

Our challenge at Las Placitas was to design and build a Leed Certified infill project that would use a minimum of nonrenewable energy and produce a minimum of pollution while enhancing the health and safety of the people that live and work there, and to do so while respecting and adding to the historic nature of the Santa Fe Historic District and our established neighbors. Each home was designed to make use of open-concept living while respecting the overall design, form, and function of the home. Rooms are human scale, universal design and respond to how people live within their home and their specific needs. The entire life cycle of the building and its components is considered as well as the environmental impact and performance. The homes are comfortable, healthy and blend seamlessly from the inside to the enclosed exterior courtyards.

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Specializing in remodels and ground-up projects that seek to combine the best of classic Santa Fe with the cutting-edge contemporary style for which she has come to be known, Victoria Price brings her background as an art historian as well as her lifelong involvement in the arts to each of her design projects. Her store and design studio combine the international style of such iconic firms as Cassina, Moroso, Kartell, and Poltrona Frau, with the best of regional and historical art and artifacts.

Victoria Price has been pleased to help the owners of this lovely Las Campanas home (designed in the late 1990s by architect Jim Satzinger) to update their kitchen, living room, dining room, and other interior and exterior public spaces. By incorporating colorful cutting-edge modern furnishings with their superb existing art collection, the home blends the couple’s wide-ranging tastes with new Italian furnishings as well as case goods by regional designers, including Victoria herself. In the kitchen, a slick yet warm look has been achieved by combining custom cabinets with striking black granite countertops and an eye-catching lighting design by Kim White of Statements.

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Heather has fifteen years of interior design experience in residential and contract interiors. She is NCIDQ-certified, New Mexico licensed, a professional member of American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), sits on the New Mexico Licensing Board and most recently became a LEED Green Associate. She has a talent for creating meaningful and personalized interiors that reflect her clients’ interests and lifestyles. Her work has been published in Western Interiors and she has been named one of the Top 20 designers under 40 in Mountain Living Magazine. Heather has appeared on HGTV’s Designers’ Challenge and is listed on the Western Interiors Gold List of Interior Designers. Heather graduated with highest distinction from New York School of Design and received a B.A. from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland.

A Collected Interior: A pueblo-style main house and casita on the north side beautifully designed around a lifetime of collecting. Heather Van Luchene, ASID of HVL Interiors wove pattern, texture and color together to create a rich and inviting tapestry.

 

 

locations: designer home & garden tour

Please be sure to download both documents below! Tickets ($15) are available online and at the tour homes. Look for Design Santa Fe signs along the route!

download home tour map (pdf)

download home tour directions (pdf)