Planning Ideas Scrapbook:

Southwest Design Ideas

Final Specs:

• Southwest Contemporary Design
  • Stucco exterior - redrock red
  • Passive solar design
  • Puebloan style
  • Rounded corners

Ideas

• Pueblo Style
• Traditional framing rather than adobe
• Rounded corner (interior and exterior walls)
• Stucco exterior finish - clay (red/brown color)
• Notice the passive solar windows

Resources

• Planning for Rural Site Development - The Site Inventory
• Southwest Architecture
• Southwest Dreamhome
• Adobe Homes - The Magic of Solar Adobe
• Adobe Homes and Houses
• SuCasa: Southwestern Homes
• Interior Design Ideas
  • Adobe Abodes
  • Southwest homes: Outside stone deck ; Ceiling Fan
• Southwest Builders
  • John Kaltenbach Homes
  • David C. Peterson

Events

• Home and Garden Shows

Tools for Planning

• KB Home Builder: Building Tools

HGTV

• Earth Friendly Homes
• The Pueblo
• Adobe Builder
• California Adobe
• Traditional Adobe
• Pueblo Revival Style Master Bath
• Mission Furniture
• Poured Earth Home

Sustainable Architecture - The traditional rammed earth approach is often used by self-builders.

• Low pitched roof
• Thick masonry walls
• Recessed windows
• Tile floors
• Roof beams exposed

Southwest Artwork

• Serena Supplee - Artist on the Colorado Plateau