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Desert & Southwest Home & Backyard Ideas
Desert and Southwest home & backyard ideas take their cues from Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas: earthy stucco and rammed earth, flat roofs and deep overhangs, gravel gardens planted with agave, yucca, cactus and desert trees, and shade structures that make the outdoors usable at noon.
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Desert and Southwest home & backyard ideas take their cues from Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas: earthy stucco and rammed earth, flat roofs and deep overhangs, gravel gardens planted with agave, yucca, cactus and desert trees, and shade structures that make the outdoors usable at noon.
Notice how the best home & backyard designs use colour sparingly — a corten wall, a turquoise door, the blue of a pool — against the neutral ground. Save the schemes that match your sun and your soil.
Desert and Southwest design is shade, earth and sky. Look for stucco or adobe in earthy tones, flat roofs with deep overhangs, decomposed granite and gravel instead of lawn, and planting of agave, yucca, saguaro, ocotillo, palo verde and desert wildflowers. Corten steel, concrete and rammed earth handle the sun; ramadas, shade sails and pergolas make midday usable; and lighting stays low so the stars can compete.
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