Many interior decorating and painting decisions were made to enhance the art. “The art collection is important, and I wanted to create a very crisp foil for it—a place where it would look right at home and not crowded,” Beth says. To complement the Solems’ high-end collection (also including two Picassos and an abstract Richard Serra hanging over the fireplace), the home was entirely rewired with a low-voltage lighting system. “There’s a lot of lighting in the house that doesn’t have all the wall acne—the switches [on the walls].When you have these beautiful paintings you don’t want stuff competing with them. There was a lot of attention paid to that,” Higgins says.

To invite even more light and mountain views inside, carefully placed windows were inserted around the home, including vertical and horizontal windows near the wet bar in the living room (which frame both the sunset and a cactus in the yard), in the kitchen and over the bed in the master bedroom. Additionally, because the best view in the house was originally only accessible via the north-side bathroom, it was flipped to the opposite side of the home.

One of the distinctive features of the Solem residence is its expansive outdoor water feature and fountain that the house is situated around. The Solems took the original pool and inserted gray slate squares to create a stepping stone effect, leaving way for the water underneath and the Koi fish that reside there. Visible from almost every angle of the home (including the yoga window in the master bedroom, which is low to the ground and visible during floor stretches), the outdoor space also houses plants and small trees, forming a serene and private nature oasis.