Mid Century Modern style new custom home in Phoenix Arizona

[@skyliner7333]

I like that you have separated the kitchen. In the 50s we never would have understood the present popular design of one big room. Who wants to see the dirty dishes from the sofa.

[@jayteesgear]

This is absolutely awesome! I recorded one of my fave albums in Palm Springs years back and you NAIL the vibe

[@cranberryeater7459]

This looks more like a contemporary home, rather than a MCM.

[@SideB1984]

Ashton Woods gave me my MCM dream home in Eastmark. This one is stunning! 🤩

[@timward3116]

It is interesting that "mid-century modern" architecture seems to be more closely equated with Palm Springs than any other place. I grew up in a mid-century split-level home back east that was touted as modern but was very different. Now I live in a mid-century condo that is really just a normal condo with a Mexican-ish exterior. I do really enjoy this Palm Springy style of home, though (doesn't everyone?) and I wonder why Valley homebuilders continue to build the same dirt-brown sugar-cube boxes on tiny brown lots. No imagination. No artistry in the design. If new home developments had houses that look like the one in this video, I might be tempted to buy a new home (were I in the market). I am happy where I am and have incorporated mid-century modern furniture into my mid-century-not-so-modern condo, though. Love the home in this video!

[@cranberryeater7459]

I would argue that this is more akin to contemporary, rather than MCM.

[@timward3116]

@@cranberryeater7459 Hi Cranberry Eater. I think that when you say "more akin" you are correct. So many styles collide (sometimes very nicely) into what is now described as "contemporary." Something can be called contemporary by one person and be called Scandi, Japanese, Japandi, Danish, or even Mid-century Modern by another person. Clean lines tend to be the common factor in all of these styles, whether referring to architecture or furniture. All I know is that I grew up in the mid-century in a mid-century house in a development of mid-century houses - and nobody I knew personally lived in a house that looked anything like this one... although I really do like this one a lot.

[@cranberryeater7459]

@@timward3116 to me MCM has distinctive features. Large picture windows, spaces inside transitioning to outside. This means wooden beams, brick, and other features that are same on the inside as outside. Often you see oak beams in the ceiling carry through the wall and onto the outside canopy. Same with brick fireplaces and walls. I wish there would be an expert that could clearly set the record straight. I just shake my head when realtors list houses as “MCM” when they clearly are not.

[@timward3116]

@@cranberryeater7459 Hello Cranberry! As they say, "I hear ya!" There are several experts on KZbin with popular channels who define MCM the way that you do. I guess everything exists in degrees and there really often isn't a clear line defining the style of a given house of that period. The one that I grew up in was a typical suburban Chicago home built in 1958 with SOME of the elements of MCM. The living room had a bank twelve windows adjacent to one another to form one big window, but every other window in the house wasn't very big. Neither the weather nor the north-south orientation was conducive to much light entering the house. We had ONE vaulted ceiling, but we had no exposed wooden beams or interior bricks, no large glass sliding door, no patio. Yet, it was a split-level, had a VERTICAL wood-paneled basement, and seemed to take a few cues from Frank Lloyd Wright. As was the case in every other mid-century house I saw back then, rooms were a mish-mash of furniture - and, depending on when and where furniture was bought, some of it could be called MCM but most of it couldn't. I suspect that I might be conflating what I would call typical mid-century design with the much more specific MCM. Something else I find interesting with MCM as it is imagined nowadays is the use of color both in brightness and amount. Modern technology has allowed us to make those "pops of color" SOOO much brighter than they would have been originally. Paint and fabric colors used to be more muted. Also, we find a lot of MCM cliches in decor nowadays that probably didn't exist in ANY home back then (e.g., Warhol Campbell's soup cans and huge pouty Marilyn Monroes). Still modern MCM ("modern MCM" seems redundant, doesn't it?) does evoke a feeling of stepping back in time somewhat. The number of people who actually had "pure MCM" homes back then may be fewer than supposed, but the style as interpreted today is great. I love it. My own home is mostly a combination of mid-century and MCM.

[@jasonh9335]

Beautiful home. I love this style but you don’t really see it too much in Arizona.

[@LearningLife-sh1fh]

Wonderful. Please gift me one of these houses, I would move there right away !!

[@carolreinoso3657]

Beautiful home, but the presentation got weird after the kitchen. All of a sudden the architect goes from the kitchen to a closet and a bathroom, without showing the bedroom it belongs to or how the location of it relates to the rest of the house layout. Then goes right to a section of the yard...and that's it. We're left with no idea of the other living areas.

[@johnshyer6287]

I wish a builder in Arizona would learn how to build a california style modern home. They have the best sleek lines of any homes, true open concept, glass walls for the true indoor / outdoor living, I would buy one in a heart beat.

[@donnav7103]

Just gorgeous Mr. Doria.

[@Cairo_Amen]

Love Palm Springs moderns and its recent revival. They’re more beautiful and affordable than the smaller ones here in LA. I’m searching for the right floor plan, already renovated and at least 2100 sqft.

[@rubencohen2936]

I need one one half that size with the same great MCM design. 😎

[@unemployedrocketsurgeon1124]

Nice work, I’d live there in a flash.

[@normaharrod5337]

OMG the backyard! I love it.

[@mandychadwick9262]

LOOOOVE THIS X 😍 X 🇬🇧

[@rickt.223]

Beautiful home...

[@johnbeckett8028]

This home is very nice, however it is more modern and comtempory than it is mid-century. There are people, like me, who takes issue with those who want to profit from pushing any modern house off as Midcentury.

[@learntoread-readwithme6999]

Beautiful!

[@LOOKA.B]

super"

[@kusumpatel2635]

Haw much price please

[@TheRTM]

This is not a Mid Century Home🤨 It Irks me to no end when guys like this and Real estate agents (Who know nothing about true mid-century modern style architecture) conflate it with other styles. This home is “Contemporary Modern” *NOT* Mid Centrury Modern.

[@johnbeckett8028]

You are right.

[@TheRTM]

@@johnbeckett8028 💯

[@misterhot9163]

Yeah that’s nice.... sigh....

[@RAREFORMDESIGNS]

Stop saying "Mid Century Modern".

[@cherylvergin1757]

I don't like the white paint on exterior, it's weak and intrusive at the same time. Fail. And what is with all white interiors? Does no one want to feel anything?

[@unemployedrocketsurgeon1124]

In my opinion the White surfaces are broken up nicely by the timber paneling, this is a brand new space, the character will develop as time goes by & people live there.

[@ringo666]

White exterior reflects away more radiant heat than a color does -- important in Phoenix. White interiors are nauseating. But everyone has their own ideas and palette.

[@st0rm8ring3r]

Lame

[@harperwelch5147]

That landscaping and the atrium is not done well. Rows of plants looks like a farm. Needed real design to look natural. The green lawn is not a choice to be made in that climate, a waste of water.

[@arizonamom8773]

No thanks!