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January / February 2006 - 

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Radical Reform

When Owen and Marty Nelson first saw the place they now call home, the indoor swimming pool looked more like a black lagoon. In the thirty something-year-old house, beams were sagging, joists were cracking, and the kitchen looked straight out of The Brady Bunch (think Formica, a huge round center island, and low plastered ceilings). The Northside property had been sitting vacant for more than a year following a bank foreclosure, but for this husband-and-wife design duo, nothing could have been better. “We come upon something like that and think, ‘This is exactly what we need,’” says Owen, who, with his wife, Marty, is one of Inside Out Design’s two principals.

Epic Proportions

Spanish Colonial style reaches new heights in this European-influenced masterpieceWith nearly 40 Las Campanas homes under her belt, designer Sharon Woods has learned that God is in the details. And for this 5,000-square-foot, Rastra-built house, a 2006 Home of the Year winner, her inspiration was truly divine.

Getting Graphic

Gayle and Chuck Monahan were supposed to be only thinking about moving from California last March when they visited a friend in the City Different. And enlisting a realtor to show them a few properties was only supposed to give them a sense of the place. They were driving through La Mirada, just east of Las Campanas, when they spotted a bold, angular house bathed in colors of ochre and moss. “We both said, ‘Can we look at that?’” Gayle recalls, laughing. As fate would have it, developer Michael Hurlocker just happened to be in the driveway that fortuitous day, and gave the couple a tour. “As soon as we walked in, I could see the writing on the walls,” she says. “We just fell in love with it.”