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CASA ADOBE

This ”four square” adobe house built in the 1940’s once consisted of four rooms, each linked to the other by an interior door, and each with its own exterior door. There was no bathroom, only a triple outhouse with a pasture view. This became a two-bedroom, one-bath house with a modern and homey great room and plenty of inspirational design ideas. There is a curated collection of art and artifacts as well as a library with books on local history, art, architecture, and Buddhist spirituality. The soul of the house is the wood-fired stove with an artfully-crooked stovepipe.
DETAILS
▪︎ fully-equipped professional kitchen with full-sized Bosch fridge, vintage drainboard sink, electric range, microwave, Vitamix blender, Bodum coffee grinder and drip coffee carafe
▪︎ stacked washer/dryer
▪︎ full bath with walk-in shower and heated floor
▪︎ two bedrooms with queen-sized beds, Sochi organic mattresses, upholstered headboards, organic cotton sheets and duvets, Pendleton wool blankets, individually-controlled baseboard electric heat
▪︎ great room with wood burning stove
▪︎ dining table for four
▪︎ Roku Smart TV, thermal electric brick heater, high-speed wireless internet
▪︎ 800 square feet, sleeps four.

CASITA COLORES

This concrete block addition built in the 1960s onto the west side of what is now Casa Adobe provided a bathroom for the main house and bedrooms for an expanding family. Now a thirty-foot long wall mural is the centerpiece of this studio casita inspired by the color and pattern of the American Southwest and Mexico. The furnished deck has pasture views.
DETAILS
▪︎ kitchenette with sink, retro fridge, portable single-burner induction cooktop, toaster oven, microwave, Bodum coffee grinder and drip coffee carafe
▪︎ full bath with walk-in shower
▪︎ king-sized bed with Tuft and Needle Mint mattress and topper, Pendleton wool blanket
▪︎ work desk with pasture view
▪︎ compact stackable washer/dryer
▪︎ mini-split heating and cooling
▪︎ high-speed wireless internet
▪︎ 350 square feet, sleeps two.

CASA VIEJA (Coming SOON!)

Built as long ago as 150 years, this L-shaped adobe was the original dwelling on the property. Outside was an outhouse, and showers were taken at a pool reserved at the mineral springs for the community. It had pine planks or sheet linoleum floors above dirt floors and wallpaper on the adobe walls, with ceilings concealing the vigas and a wood-fired cookstove. Now this one bedroom with kitchen and living room has concrete floors, mini-split heating and cooling, and a summer sleeping porch.
DETAILS
▪︎ one bedroom with king-sized bed and armoire
▪︎ walk-in wet room bath
▪︎ kitchen with propane-fired professional range, trough sink, retro fridge, stackable washer/dryer
▪︎ living room with pasture views and wood burning stove
▪︎ mini-split heating and cooling
▪︎ high-speed wireless internet
▪︎ 800 square feet, sleeps four.

OJITOS TIERRA Y CIELO

EARTH AND SKY LITTLE EYE
For decades, this former root cellar and “hole in the ground” built with Casa Vieja preserved fruits and vegetables, grown in the pasture, through the winter. Under a sloping corrugated metal roof and a structure of painted wood vigas, the floor was layered with twelve inches of dirt on vintage sheet linoleum, on top of pine planks. Now this “regulation size” 4-1/2 tatami Japanese teahouse used as a Zendo meditation/yoga space has raw concrete walls and soaring fourteen-foot ceilings with south-facing glass. This space is aptly named “Earth and Sky Little Eye,” as it is equally of the earth and of the sky.
DETAILS
▪︎ 120-square-foot meditation and yoga space, shared by Casa Adobe and Casita Colores
▪︎ sleeping, reading and meditation loft
▪︎ Buddha shrine
▪︎ Japanese tea service implements
▪︎ sink, passive cooling, electric heat.