This young family, with three boys, uses all 13,128 square feet of their Southwest-Mediterranean-style DC Ranch in north Scottsdale. Incorporating the spirit of the parents’ Midwest backgrounds, the golf-course-lot home by Scottsdale-based La Casa Builders includes five bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a five-car garage and a detached casita, all of which the couple generously opens for friends and family. “We wanted the amenities of a master-planned community and the fabric of a traditional community,” one owner says. “We wanted a home where the children can ride their bikes down the street and go to school with the same children they play football with.”

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