“Afresco is the desert seen in unexpected color — two saturated planes meeting at a clean vertical seam: deep coffee-brown stucco on the left, deep sage-moss green on the right, anchored by a continuous fieldstone wainscot in warm earth tones. Five vertical windows in extra-wide six-inch mesquite-walnut frames project from the colored walls like a family of gestural objects, three of them with operable horizontal shutters that pivot to filter the El Paso sun. A solid mesquite door, a hand-forged iron lantern, and a carriage-style garage in matching dark walnut complete the composition. Bold, telluric, contemporary — for clients who want a house with personality, not a beige builder special.”