Santa Fe Houses

About this book

Santa Fe-style decorating is a coast-to-coast trend. Hundreds of thousands have scoured Christine Mathers previous books eager to incorporate Santa Fe design elements into their own homes. Now in Santa Fe Houses Mather combines concrete and practical home-decorating suggestions with the beautiful photographs of her longtime collaborator Jack Parsons creating an invaluable guide for anyone interested in building decorating or remodeling a home in Santa Fe style. Santa Fe Houses draws inspiration from the four traditional Native American elementsfire earth water and airand shows how they can be used to wonderful effect in kitchens and dining rooms entry-ways and living rooms bedrooms bathrooms porches and patios. Along the way Mather showcases furniture rugs lighting hardware tiles shutters and other expressions of the Santa Fe look and ends with a comprehensive directory of sources.