A Christmas Present and Christmases Future Keenly architecturally aware, Graber makes sense of how a room works physically before forcing design on it. Her favorite place, the great room, is illustrative: Here, as throughout, she meticulously planned space, using colors to play off one another; mirrors; and carefully edited furnishings to create a room that looks larger than it is. Avoiding clutter, her sophisticated, colorful minimalism ensures that the room connects with the outside. A floating bar area, for example, offers hospitality within as well as unencumbered views out to the mountains.

Here, and throughout the home, Graber masterfully conducts color. Against two shades of neutral gray taupe, she counterpoints red and chamois as well as two red velvets covering the Parsons dining chairs. These color splashes continue in the restful chocolate-and-aqua master suite; the guest suite with a soft tangerine wall matching the sofa fabric; and, in the powder room/guest bath, mulberry walls and the copper ceiling and doors. “Color is always a very important element of my designs, and I try to get my clients to stretch just a little and consider colors they hadn’t thought about before,” she notes. So, too, with art: In the great room, she added metalwork by Volk from Phoenix Art Group for focal-point contrast. “The lighting not only highlights the art but creates the marvelous additional patterns on the metal,” Graber says.

On the wall opposite the windows, mirroring, from Clear Concepts Interior Glass of Apache Junction, creates another “window,” further expanding the room. Mirrors, too, on the columns make the structural elements disappear. Additional glass surfaces, like the Noguchi cocktail table from Copenhagen, add sparkle and a feeling of space. The mirrored tub enclosure in the powder room also expands that spectacular space. In addition, in the master and a guest bedroom that is being used for an office, Graber added textured glass for the closet doors; this creates airiness and provides, through subdued illumination inside the closets, a warm night-lighting effect.