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“ Sanctuary” has a different meaning for everyone. For some it is on the yoga mat. Others find their sanctuary in the art studio. The lucky ones get to call their homes their sanctuaries. Ian Cutler, founder and CEO of Widespread Construction, created one such peaceful haven at 23 Sanctuary Peak in Henderson.
Originally intended to be his own family’ s new home, Cutler put his heart and soul into this project, located on a very private 1.36-acre lot at the end of a cul-de-sac in guard-gated Ascaya.
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This 6-bed, 9-bath property includes white oak floors, a chef’ s kitchen with rift oak cabinets and Sub-Zero and Wolf appliances, plus a full prep kitchen.
Cutler notes,“ It took about a year to design the home and about two years to build it and we decided we wanted to keep doing this so we eventually decided to sell this and then move on to the next project.”
A Montana native, Cutler brings the modern farmhouse aesthetic popular in Northern California to the mountainous desert of Las Vegas. Cutler shares,“ With the
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desert farmhouse look, it has the pitched roofs, whereas the desert contemporary homes have those flat roofs and they’ re boxy and square looking. This has the 8 / 12 roof pitches with the standing seam metal and kind of a rubble stone with an overwashed grout and steel hand-troweled stucco. It’ s a new and different type of Vegas architecture.”
The architectural goals of this home were designed to let the outside in. Walls of glass showcase the majestic views of the McCullough Mountain Range.
Cutler explains how these intentional steps were taken
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to maximize the view.“ All the doors pocket so they retract in the front and in the back of the house, which has these incredible views of the canyon and there is another fire table and a pool with a zero-edge spa that kind of disappears into the canyon with a fire feature on the back of it as well.”
With scale and view comes structural challenges. Cutler and his team had to adhere to the same seismic restraints and structural requirements of California guidelines, creating intense regulations that can make it difficult to avoid columns in rooms that would need support beams. They had to design in a
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