Meet Angie and Robert Young
Angie and Robert Young are able to live just about anywhere they want in Scottsdale. They lived in North Scottsdale in a 3,600-square-foot home. Next they moved south to a 2,000-square-foot house in the Scottsdale Country Club area near Shea Boulevard and Hayden Road.
Today, Angie and Robert, both 60-something, live in the Southwest Village neighborhood just south of Indian School Road – and they say their circa 1955 home is everything they ever wanted.
“We both wanted to live the urban lifestyle,” Angie said. “We wanted to be able to walk places. But Robert didn’t want to live in a condo. He wanted a house where he could have an organic garden. And I wanted grass,” she added with a big smile.
All their wishes came true. Angie, a top real estate agent with Home Smart, and Robert, a retired America West pilot, moved into their 1,250-square-foot home a little more than seven years ago.
Angie said it hardly took any time to adjust to living in a smaller house than she and her husband of 37 years were accustomed. “It’s small, but we think of it as ‘compact,’” she explained. “It’s all the space we really need.”
Conceptually, the design of the Young’s home is the epitome of bringing the “outside inside” to give a sense of more space than what actually exists under the home’s roof. From the front room, which is a contiguous space that includes both the kitchen and dining area, a visitor can see the plush backyard and also the beautifully designed walled front patio with glass block and brushed metal accents. The patio encases the entire front of the house and has a soothing custom water feature – creating a perfect place for entertaining friends during nice weather.
What makes the three-bedroom home even more intriguing and special is that Angie and Robert created the redesign plans themselves right down to the tongue and groove clear pine on the vaulted ceiling to the four sliding glass doors, one of which is their front door.
All it takes is one visit to Angie and Robert’s house to appreciate the love and caring that has gone into making their home an inspiration to others and a source of pride and personal happiness for them having chosen their urban lifestyle.
The Young’s home is just one of many unique homes in the Southwest Village neighborhood between Indian School and Osborn Roads along 68th Street. The homes were built from 1954 through 1963, with an average original square footage of 1,400 feet.