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Prull takes top Parade of Homes honors
he 2018 Haciendas— A Parade of Homes event may have been smallish, with just 14 houses on display, but there was no shortage of quality and Wow! impact. Nor was patronage paltry. “I’m guessing that on the busiest days we had probably 400 people come through, and at any one time 60 in the house,” said Will Prull, whose company won the Grand Hacienda Award.
The Prull Custom Builders entry at 36 Plaza del Centro inThe Estancias at Las Campanas is owned by John Rizzo and Anne Mansfield. It is more than 5,100 heated square feet and nearly 8,300 square feet total because of the size of its courtyard. That placita occupies a beautifully landscaped area between the arms of the U-shaped house nicknamed “The Horseshoe.” Prull explained, “They’re a blended family, so they each have adult kids and there was the concept of two arms embracing the new family.”
Many of the spaces and rooms ofThe Horseshoe were built in “pods” connected by a long circulation hallway. One distinctive pod bearing a butterfly roof is actually the portal for the guestwing. For project architect Craig Hoopes, the house’s accretive (podlike) appearance is “a modern take on traditional Santa Fe,” he said. “You had a simple house and when you had another kid, you built another bedroom. People say, ‘You didn’t do Santa Fe style,’ but we did— also because of the fact that it’s nestled into the ground. The house is shoved into the slope, it’s not just plopped onto the ground, and it was important to me that the house feel like it belongs where it is.”
“What stands out for me,” Prull said, “are the roof structures, the rising, curving roof on themain portal, the tapered steel columns, the butterfly roof with its tapered steel columns, and the same on the dining portal, so the exterior elevations are very striking. And then on the interior, that whole kitchen dining living area with the curved buffet and the 15-foot Elegant Brown quartzite island. I think that master bath is one of the bestwe’ve ever built, with that granite shower and countertop with integral sinks and the $15,000 copper-patina Diamond Spa tub, and the outdoor shower.”
There are multiple reasons why this house can be described as dramatic, but it is not a show-off. “It is nestled into the landscape, so it doesn’t feel ostentatious,” Prull said. “And it is sophisticated and elegant and calm inside, as opposed to being flashy.”
The owners purchased the lot 10 years ago. “This is the first time we’ve ever built,” Rizzo said. “We’re living in Los Gatos, California, but we’re hoping to be here full-time. We worked withWill and Craig, Solange Serquis [Serquis + Associates Landscape Architecture], and Paul Rau [Paul Rau Interiors]. We retained all of them at the same time, in December of 2015, and we met at Craig’s office at least once a month during the design stage.”
The Prull entry also won awards for best craftsmanship, best design, best kitchen, and best outdoor space in the top price category of the Parade of Homes. Palo Santo Designs also took five awards this year for its house at 41 N. Vuelta Herradura in La Tierra. At 2,092 heated square feet, this is the smallest of the higher-end homes on this year’s Parade — the only house that was smaller was the pitched-roof entry by Homewise at 1115 Paseo Corazon. Palo Santo won the top prizes for crafts- manship, design, kitchen, master suite, water efficiency, and energy efficiency in the $1 million-and-under price class. The