Though her main residence is in Los Angeles, Pat Garling, a movie poster designer and art director, didn't hesitate to make Santa Fe her second home. When a dear friend passed away, she left Garling with a beautiful gift--his 2600-square-foot house. The beautiful home is 25 minutes south of Santa Fe.
Garling visits several times each year, and with each visit makes the home a little more her own. The New Mexico territorial-style house features cathedral ceilings, plenty of windows, and wrap-around patios called "portals" which are perfect for outdoor meals and entertaining. Inside, Garling's style is best described as "Santa Fe meets the world."
Global influences, including African kuba cloth and baskets, French and Moroccan tables and a myriad of hand woven rugs, permeate the house. In the master bedroom, discarded barn wood was reinvented as a saw-tooth headboard and the bed itself is dressed in silk-covered pillows and an antique Indian sari. Garling says that Santa Fe is filled with people from all over the world and she wanted her home to reflect that look and feel. It does.
With its majestic mountain views and "live and let live" attitude, it's easy for Garling to imagine this second home becoming a permanent one where she would live with the perfect movie ending--happily ever after.
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