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Joe Varnado, Casas de Vistas' master home designer/builder
A blending of the foreign with the familiar into a harmonious environment that welcomes you home.
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Joe lives in Santa Fe with his wife Nina. They travel often to Nina's native Mexico, where Joe conducts continuing exploration of fine building techniques and materials. Not content to use commercially-available home products, Joe Varnado has lighting, cabinetry, fountains and columns, wrought iron, and doors custom-crafted for his homes in Oshara Village.
Early in his career, Joe traveled throughout Italian villages south of Florence, into Sienna and the Tuscan Hills, where he absorbed art and architecture from every side. Joe has also traveled extensively in Mexico, where he met and married his wife Nina. These travels are the inspiration for Joe's creativity.
Joe and Nina reside part of the year in Puerto Peñasco, where Joe creates doors, light fixtures, and fine cabinetry with his Mexican craftspeople.
Wrought iron light fixtures and railings, fine solid wood doors embellished with clavos, and exquisite Spanish style vanities and kitchen islands are among the pieces Joe commissions. The work he provides to families in Mexico makes a significant impact on their quality of life. As such, Joe's quest for quality for the home you buy from him creates better quality of life for all concerned.
This is Joe's passion: to provide beautiful, serene homes for his clients - and well-paying work for his teams in New Mexico and Old Mexico alike.
Any architecture that does not express serenity is not fulfilling its purpose.
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The most powerful elements of form are simplicity, sensuality, and subtlety. Building with these influences in mind,Joe Varnado applies his architectural training to create spaces whose proportion to scale, weighted textures and room volumes combine in distinctively beautiful living spaces.
His art is expressed in the elegance and timeless beauty of the homes he designs and builds. As one may use oil or watercolor to paint, he uses stone, iron, and wood to inspire emotional response.
Quality architecture need not be a grand gesture, observes Joe, just a simple strong underlying statement. The success of his building team is due to Joe's philosophy - simply said, "Any architecture that does not express serenity is not fulfilling its purpose."
