Architecture Wednesday: Keita House

Once again, I’m looking for a Mexican house in which to retire, and once again, Carlos is ‘Meh.’

Perhaps the Keita House in Colima, Mexico, nearer the Pacific Coast might do the trick. It’s a modern, stand-alone house, but still has that Colonial Mexican house feel with a central courtyard and small pool. That central patio, the heart of the project, can be seen from nearly every space in the house and yet is completely surrounded for privacy from neighbors. And the trees! Carlos would love the trees, because in Merida, the houses in town are so close together that you don’t get that sense of nature.

Better still, the house is all on one level, easier for two old queens and their cats and dog to navigate, and makes the spaces feel connected to one another. The kitchen, dining and living rooms are all in one space, with heavy wooden beams and ceiling, but also with openings to the courtyard and the surrounding outer yard. The bedrooms are along one side of the home, created a second wall to guard the courtyard, with views but also privacy.

I like its simplicity and the trees and that pool, and the courtyard .Carlos might take some convincing …

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