The New Western Home

The New Western Home

Homes that exemplify sensitive renovation and preservation of the region's past.
The New Western Home proves that environmentally responsible and regionally appropriate choices can encompass cutting-edge designs and materials and that high end doesn’t have to mean overbuilt.

Among the homes featured are a new "built to look old” cabin compound tucked into the landscape at the bend in a river, and sustainable high country hideaways built completely off the grid. Historic rural and urban buildings, such as a former cigar factory tastefully turned into condos and an artifact-filled great room on a Wyoming ranch, exemplify sensitive renovation and preservation of the region’s past. And for the modernist minded, several homes show that contemporary, minimal interiors work to facilitate a full engagement with dramatic western landscapes.

Chase Reynolds Ewald is the West Coast senior editor for Western Art & Architecture magazine. She is the author of six previous books, including New West Cuisine; Arts & Crafts Style and Spirit; and Cowboy Style. She lives in Tiburon, California.