642 Camino De La Luz, Santa Fe, NM

About 642 Camino De La Luz

Are you looking for a big view house minutes from Canyon Rd and the Plaza? Villa Bettina is perched on a hillside on over 1.5 acres overlooking Canyon Rd and the Historic Eastside with huge Sangre Mountain views as well as spectacular views of Piccacho, Atalaya, Sun & Moon Mountains out every window! The front entry divides the house between the primary bedroom suite and public living spaces. This custom one-owner home is a rastra build with concrete floors, radiant heat and a beautiful open concept great room for kitchen, living and dining with high ceilings featuring vigas & latillas, a kiva fireplace and numerous French doors opening to the front of the house and covered portal. The covered portal with a kiva fireplace is a wonderful setting to enjoy indoor/outdoor living and to soak up the magnificent views of the mountains and city lights. An efficiently designed kitchen with the best kitchen window view in town, granite counters, breakfast bar, gas stove, Sub Zero fridge and a unique carved lintel with bees and honeycomb is perfectly placed to interact with all the happenings of life in the great room. The primary bedroom suite includes a full bath with river rock enclosed soaking tub and shower, an exercise/spa room with sauna, private South-facing enclosed patio (also accessible from the driveway) and home office. The wooden stairs ascending from the entry foyer feature a hand-crafted metal handrail made by MacArthur Fellow Tom Joyce (as was the hardware on the handcrafted front door) leading up to a guest bedroom, bath, office space and fun, special, secret loft. The guest casita, just down a little walkway from the house is frame and stucco with a full kitchen and bath, plenty of storage, a kiva fireplace in the main living space and a view-filled covered front portal. With a path that leads all around the house and property one can also climb up to the top of the hill for sunset vistas.

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