architecture

Spread Oaks Ranch gets its name from the ancient oak trees that pepper the property. The 5,500-acre complex successfully marries an upscale hunting lodge, a prized Brangus cattle operation, conventional and organic farming, and wildlife habitat. Spread Oaks Ranch—named for the magnificent mottes of massive live oaks that predominate on the property—is the passion project...

In Red Lodge, Montana, a family of four from Georgia found respite from the heat and humidity of the South in the summertime and an outdoor playground for their active family year-round.  Tucked into the beautiful Beartooth Mountains of south-central Montana, they were drawn to the warm and welcoming town after their son took a...

A career in the oil and gas industry took this Oklahoma couple all over the world.  With three kids in tow, they moved 11 times, including a stint in Saudi Arabia.  They agreed to make the most of the travel that the husband’s job afforded them.  “We made a pact that we’d only come home...

This Santa Fe Landmark is a masterful example of authentic Pueblo-Style Architecture. Expansive Mexican stone pathways connect the dwellings and the carefully designed landscape, which features multiple life-size sculptures and this meandering, stone-lined stream. An adobe perimeter wall ensures privacy. Thick adobe walls create a long hallway leading to a romantic southwestern-style guest suite. The...

The romance and thrill of fly-fishing for rainbow trout and other aquatic beauties in Montana’s cold, crystalline waters was the perfect lure to entice a high powered metropolitan couple to ditch their city suits and don their Carhartts.  The couple and their brood found their Nirvana near Ennis, Montana at Valley Garden Ranch, an eight-thousand-acre...

Linda Shannon-Valentiner grew up on a farm in New Zealand, loving the natural world and being deeply attuned to it.  Ted Valentiner was raised amid the romance (and reality) of the American West.  From the time he was a young boy, he held a deep affinity for a vintage lifestyle.  Both were working in London...