This special House & Garden tour takes you to an extraordinary estate that is highly dramatic, as you enter the home through the owners’ personal art museum!

The owners have amassed an incredible art collection of international and Mexican artists, writers and photographers, including a photomontage by world-famous photographer Maggie Taylor, who will provide an informal talk during our visit.

Our hosts own the Camino Silvestre stores and Néctar restaurant locally, where they sell home furnishings, books and all manner of hummingbird feeders. The house displays a variety of their work including chairs, tables, chandeliers and fireplace surrounds.

The living room has two giant hummingbird sculptures by Guanajuato artist Vanesa Salas Orduño created from fragments of beauty contestant and quinceañera dresses! These birds live happily against a backdrop of seven colossal paper jungle paintings by artist Kimberlee Sullivan.

The dining room table is Chippendale style. The two host chairs are «ghost» chairs. Can you guess why? Look up at the stenciled ceilings in both the dining and living rooms. On a sideboard are two Noruba ceremonial bird hats from Nigeria.

The chef’s kitchen will be the envy of anyone who enjoys cooking. Every possible appliance and cooking accoutrement imaginable is here. Imagine the continental cuisine that comes out of this kitchen while using the beautiful produce grown right in their gardens.

There are three bedrooms, each with furnishings acquired from various travels. The main guest room bath features a soaking tub for two!

Tour the separate guest house or casita. It is a two-bedroom abode with another fabulous chef’s kitchen, beautifully decorated with custom-painted hummingbird tiles by Guanajuato master ceramicist Gorky González. The drawers are created from wooden tomato crates!

Eclectic artwork and craft from local and Mexican artists are everywhere. This is truly sophisticated Mexican decor at its finest!

As visitors leave, they will have the opportunity to tour the park-like surroundings. Winding paths of pea gravel take visitors past peacocks, guinea fowl, ducks and chickens, old mesquite trees, and countless cactus and agave plants.

An ingenious water filtration system harnesses arroyos on the property, waters trees and bushes and feeds a lily pond filled with koi.

A metal arbor covered with jasmine and pink trumpet vine acts as a romantic enclosure for elaborate dinner parties. The outdoor kitchen complete with pizza oven is nearby.

Don’t miss the owners’ incredible greenhouse and vegetable garden, where they grow produce for their restaurant at Correo No. 43, their home, and the vegetable plants for their shop at Zacateros 46. 

Should you wish to engage our gracious hosts, you’ll be rewarded by their entertaining tales.