Homes that exemplify sensitive renovation and preservation of the region's past.The New Western Home proves that environmentally responsible and regionally appropriatechoices can encompass cutting-edge designs and materials and that high end doesn’t have to meanoverbuilt.Among the homes featured are a new "built to look old” cabin compound tucked into the landscapeat 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 andan artifact-filled great room on a Wyoming ranch, exemplify sensitive renovation and preservationof 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.
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