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Project • By Western Window Systems • Private Houses
Real-Life Showroom
The owner of this home is Rick Salter, who is also the owner of Custom Home Window & Door in Las Vegas. Rick chose WWS and built this home to showcase the Western product. He regularly uses his home as a full size showroom, bringing in customers, architects and builders to see, feel and operate the windows and doors in a real-life scenario. The entire home has been automated, allowing the homeowner the ability to adjust the temperature, open or close the blinds, turn lights on and off from anywhere in the world. More
Product • By Aniko Doman • South Pacific Mural
South Pacific Mural
Design guided by the principal “beauty is part of function” cannot be more true than in the case of the South Pacific Mural in this southern Nevada residential backyard.
The clients—a retired couple—wished to transform the backyard of their newly constructed home into a South Pacific themed retreat. The project begun with several major design challenges: an unsightly, large retainer back wall with its bottom three feet below grade, a 4-foot tall slope and the nature of southwest desert environment with serious watering restrictions for landscaping. Design brief also included: no trees, no poisonous plants (to be safe for their young grandchildren), lots of bright colors, minimal maintenance, wheelchair access to side gate and last but n... More