Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona • Page 129

BEST AVAILABLE COPY Hicson, Sunday, March 12, 2000 Hl)t Arizona Uailu Slar Section Page it wmJ. Guide to touring homes, gardens 3Si 6 lesert aan desert aaraen 1 to en PIMA CANYON enjoys an unmatched setting in the gently sloping Catalina foothills. Enhanced by lush, mature desert vegetation, it is truly a desert garden. Homesites from $200,000 and custom homes from $650,000 with city, canyon and mountain views available. Ina Pima Canyon Drive.

ISl M. 2200 E. River Rd, Suite 115, Tucson, AZ Represented by DMI Estate Properties tr 520742-0100 E-mail: diamondventurestheriver.com www.diamondven.com 18 Single Family Homes $308,000 TO $470,000 In Okin.LoweS! Feci the Ourctar of CMTfatson 16" Thick Mud Adobe Pollshad Concrsts Floors Concrsta Counter Top Mexican Til Vlga Calling! Outdoor SilM Courtyards Flagstona Visit us on Craycroft between River ft Ft Lowell Contact: Jim Gray 322-0283 Tucson. Where: Ticket-holders may visit any of the gardeas during tour hours either day. When: April 1 and 2, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Admission: $8, Tucson Botanical Gardens members; $12 non-members. Tickets: From March 20 at Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvemon Way; Rascon Landscaping Nursery, 7974 N. Oracle Road; Harlow's Nursery, 5620 E. Pima Mesquite Valley Growers, 8005 E.

Speedway. Includes admission to the Tucson Botanical Gardens. Information: 326-9686. West University Neighborhood Association Historic Home Tour What: Self-guided tour of 17 sites: six homes, two churches, one school and eight former residences that are now offices. Where: Begins at First Christian Church, 74Q E.

Speedway. When: April 2, noon-5 p.m. Admission: $6 advance purchase; $8 tour day. Tickets: Advance purchase, Time Market, 444 E. University Delectables Restaurant, 533 N.

Fourth tour day, First Christian Church patio. Rain Date: April 9. Information: 624-9272. Master Gardener Home Garden Tour What: Self-guided tour of five gardens, plus the Fort Lowell Elementary School garden and the Pima County Extension Center demonstration gardens. Master gardeners will be on hand at all sites around the city to answer questions.

Where: Begins at Pima County Extension Center, 4210 N. Campbell Ave. Holders of advance-purchase tickets may begin the tour at any stop. When: April 15, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission: $5 for adults; children 1 2 or younger free.

Tickets: Pima County Extension Center. Information: a.m.-4:30 p.m. live in PfM CANYON IITATf 1 INMMUUIION CtNTtl Washer, NYDK (TrFtNiiiiNro Free 1 'f 11 i-j. iHefrigerator- Home and garden tour has arrived, lb help you make some choices, here's a planning guide: The Tucson Innovative Home Tour Spring Workshop and Tour What: Workshop and tours of three homes; focus is on how to have a much better home at a much lower cost. Where: Starts at Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, 1900 E.

Speedway. Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission: $20 per family. Information: 881-4772. Barrio Ilistorico Home Tour What: Self-guided tour of nine homes, a market and four walk-bys.

-Where: Begins at Jerry's Lee Ho Market, 600 S. Meyer Ave. When: March 26, 1 1 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission: $7 advance purchase; $8 tour day. Tickets: Jerry's Lee Ho Market.

Information: 620-6815. Spring Mansion Tour of the New Millennium What: Guided tour of six mansions in the affluent Kennedy section of Nogales, Mexico. Where: Begins at the Cow Palace in Amado, 28802 S. Nogales Highway. Take Interstate 19 past Green Valley; turn off at exit 48 (Arivaca Road); head to the frontage road building with the bull on top.

March 26. Starts with brunch from 8:30 to 10 a.m. at the Cow Palace in Amado. Buses depart to Nogales at 10:15 a.m. Tour mansions from 1 1 a.m.

to 2 p.m., followed by a Sonoran buffet and entertainment. Buses return to Amado at 5 p.m. Admission: $75. Tickets: Green valley Chamber of Commerce, 270 Continental Road. Information or tickets by mail: (800)813-9828.

Tucson Botanical Gardens Home Garden Tour What: Self-guided tour of five home gardens that vary in size and design within midtown and eastern Opera tour Continued from Page 1H has access to a refrigerator and a stove in not!) Cooking usually occurs in the pantry. Pans, small appliances and utensils cover the walls or sit on the counter for easy access. "We keep our mess back here," Kathy said. Deep-salmon-colored concrete counters, for working and for informal meals beckon from the main kitchen Overhead, a belt-driven paddli fan provides ventilation and The area, however, lacks a laundry room. "Everyone seems to put this close to the kitchen," Kathy explained, "but you dont have many kitchen clothes." So the 'washer and dryer sit by the master bedroom suite on the opposite side of the house.

This section includes a room-size closet with a central island for packing and floor-to-ceiling storage areas that have doors. Muslin and burlap tied together hi huge knots serve as the bedroom's curtains. Kathy used pushpins, staples and corner brackets to create these window coverings in about half an hour. Inside and outside, Kathy's artistic touches captivate, from the window concepts to tile creations. Ceramic works include her wall mural of a Mexican folk art scene Ventana Canyon Mountain Estates comprises 300 rugged acres in the Santa Catalina foothills above Loews Ventana Canyon Resort and Ventana Country Club.

The area is part of a planned community, originally developed by William Estes Jr. in the 1980s. The estates hold 79 building sites with 1 to 34 acres and price tags that have ranged from $200,000 to 1 million for land only. Terramar Properties bought most of the acreage from Estes in 1993 and has four sites left for sale. SUNDAY'S STAR THE PLUS 2TO in options-when you cSiopse a new.

spec home during. the Pre-Grand Opening of Rosevale between the kitchen and the butler's pantry and a tile rug by an outdoor fireplace. Both the master bedroom and the living room's fireplace and chimney fshow off her faux painting. An inte rior wall by the front entrance dis-. plays a rough texture that she pro- duced.

To achieve the effect, Kathy dipped bolts of heavy fabric into drywall compound, plastered the mixture over the area and applied tan paint. Blank walls became canvases for designs and depictions, such as the guest bathroom's 8-foot purple, pink, turquoise and blue saguaro. The cactus spreads over the room's raspberry door and into a golden sink. One painting potted greenery with red flowers on a second-floor patio wall solved a problem. "I wanted plants up there," Kathy explained, "but I didn't want to water them." Her artwork also adds colorful wall and fireplace accents on the first floor's south patio, where the swimming pool hugs a cliff.

Water pours over the edge into a trough below and is recycled back to the pool. Kathy considers the mountain retreat to be the most unusual of the seven homes that she and Bill have built together. "IVe never been in a house where I could do all this," she said. "It's been fun." it1 i I 1- 4 11 a i 5 .1 2, 3 and 4 bedroom homes 2-car garage Air Conditioning Tile Roofs Convenient to I-10 and Foothills Mall RosevalE NATIONAL ROSEVALE FOOTHILLS MALL Rosevale models now on Magee, just west of Shannon 797-3430 Magee C3 e3 3 co Ina I jfH NEIGHBORHOOD I Optional Palio Optional Patio 'B' Opt. Rrtpittt a iNindoir Abm Millar Badrooffl Greit Room I On S11 ii x- lJ ii i o.swn.1 ClHi Oat.

Ota, 5 jj ysf 1 jj Uii ledroon 1107 Thirty luxury homes now perch in the rocks or are under construction. One has been listed for resale at $2.8 million. Residents of the gated community belong to the Ventana Canyon Community Association, which includes 600 residences on both sides of Kolb Road, north of Sunrise Drive. Sources: Priscilla Duddleston, executive director of Ventana Canyon Community Association; Terry Hipp, president of Terramar Properties. New floor plan with Great Room and Optional 4th Bedroom! New World homes Offered by New World Brokerage, Inc.

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