cool homes: southwest

Decor author brings her work home
Mary Emmerling and husband Reg Jackson remodeled a 1960s Scottsdale patio home into a coastal-inspired desert retreat.

A haven for roping and reading
Wickenburg Home Tour features desert hacienda empty nesters built for themselves and their horses.
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Private botanical garden blooms at PV home
Garret and Shirley Weyand's lot isn't the typical desert-landscaped property. It's a private botanical garden.
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Artistic touches adorn their piece of 'paradise'
Gene and Judy Thompson named their Paradise Valley home ''Hacienda Halekulani'' after their favorite resort hotel on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii. The 8,500-square-foot property also easily could be named ''House of Craftsmen.''
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A north Phoenix mountain retreat
The attraction of this cool home was the mountain in the backyard.
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Remodel mixes exotic, Southwest
Friend's redesign gives couple a home to treasure.
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Page Springs project
At Pat and Earl Petznick's getaway, the decor is Western, but the style is all about family.
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A classy, colorful 2nd home
Maureen and Tim McGough traded formal Back East styling for colorful, casual Southwest flair when they bought a second home in north Scottsdale.
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Modern take on ancients
"Homes Through Time" tour features three homes, each of which have distinct architecture and design.
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Cozy cool-air retreat
Nancy and Lee Hanley created the perfect, cozy high-country escape.
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New River builder goes to the wall for energy savings
Don't be fooled by the appearance of Dan Dwyer's New River home. It looks like other custom Territorial-style homes, with massive walls, an earthy brown exterior and a stucco-like finish. But that's because you can't see inside the walls.
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A home on which the wildlife roam
Ask Joanne West how big her home is and she laughingly replies, ''2,000 round feet.'' That's because the Gold Canyon abode is a two-story dome home.
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Logs define Payson-area home, inside and out
Dave Falk, a Valley real-estate salesperson by trade, constructs log homes in the Payson area in his spare time. He uses log home kits and personalizes them with additional craftsmanship and features.
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Tile marks 1936 home
Pat Poulson and Doris McVey like to kid about Poulson's affinity for tile. ''The joke in this house is if I stand still long enough, I'll get tiled,'' McVey said.
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Ranch of her dreams
It began as a childhood wish to live in a mansion with horses frolicking through the fields. Lisa Shover Kackley's handwritten school paper expressed her longing to ''live in a big two-story house'' from where she could watch her horses play. It now hangs in her ranch office as a framed reminder of her lifelong passion.
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Old Country livin'
The possibilities, almost more than its reality, attracted Karen and Mark Doerflein to their Biltmore Estates home about three years ago.