One of the features I love most on Santa Fe homes are its outdoor living spaces. It is not uncommon for living spaces to extend outside and into your covered portal. These areas are often decorated similar to your indoor spaces complete with rugs, furniture and art.

This luxury home is no exception, and we made as much use of the outdoor space as possible. When you have a unique building site like this one in Monte Sereno, it would be tragic not to take advantage of the views.

What we did was build a view portal that wraps around the entire back side of the home, and installed the biggest windows we could get our hands on to maximize the view lines. And to put the finishing touches, we added the sculpted kiva fireplace to enjoy the warmth on a cold winter evening. Now where did I put my eggnog?