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REAL ESTATE | Thursday, February 16, 2017 • KCChronicle.com / The Herald Photos by Brett Beyer
The large outdoor patio provides ample space for family dining and entertaining.
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RANGE By KATHERINE SALANT Special to The Washington Post HENDERSON, Nev. – The “Contemporary Farmhouse” constructed in a subdivision outside Las Vegas in what once had been a desert, is a modest-sized dwelling that lives big and throws convention out the window. This very different house, with its unusually large outdoor living areas and a smaller footprint that covers only about half the lot, is not such a big leap for Las Vegas buyers, according to the builder, because they already have begun to move in this direction. But in the future, it could
become a model for how homes are built in other parts of the country. Buyers here increasingly are choosing smaller houses to open up more area outdoors that can be turned into “outdoor rooms.” To get them, they are willing to jettison bonus rooms and large game rooms that once were highly desirable but have fallen out of favor, said Klif Andrews, division president for Nevada-based Pardee Homes, which built the experimental dwelling for the International Builders Show. The second story of the “Contemporary Farmhouse” in Henderson, Nev., recalls the farm“In essence, buyers are trading
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houses of the Midwest, while the wide expanse of adobe-colored stone on the first floor is reminiscent of the simple, one-story houses built by working ranchers in the Southwest.