This 'n That Thursdays: HGTV Smart Home 2023 is in Santa Fe!

This year's HGTV Smart Home 2023 is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, my current home town!  The sweepstakes entry period began on April 18th and is open until June 9th.  Viewers can tune in to the one-hour special HGTV Smart Home 2023 on Friday, April 28th, at 7 p.m. ET on HGTV and HGTV GO, and also on discovery+ the same day.  Check out the website link to see all videos and photos of the beautiful finished home.

The views from this home are lovely, a lot like the ones we have at our house.  We have a 360 degree view of the mountain ranges surrounding the Santa Fe area, with the Sangre de Cristo mountains to our north, the Jemez to the distant northwest, the Cerrillos hills to our nearby west, the Ortiz mountains to the south, and the Sandias in the distance behind them, while to our east the topography flattens out to gently undulating hills of pinon-juniper woodlands).  I wonder if this home has similar panoramic views - I do not know its exact location, but the few images with background vistas suggests that it does.

The fully furnished three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bathroom home is about 3,095 square feet in size and sits on nearly two acres of land.  The amenities that come with this state of the art home include a brand new all-electric Mercedes-Benz EQE Sedan, $100,000 in cash, an outdoor kitchen, a plunge pool, and a fire pit.  I think my favorite space, though, is the rooftop deck, complete with a spiral staircase for access and a mechanized dumbwaiter for transporting items from the kitchen to the roof.

I adore spiral staircases!

Just look at those stunning views!

Our house has a flat roof just like this Smart Home - maybe some day we can add a rooftop deck with spiral staircase too!  In the coming days I hope to create posts highlighting some of our personal favorite things about Santa Fe.  In the mean time, I will certainly be entering to win this house - even if we don't keep it, I would love to visit the location (easily done since we are probably pretty close!).  Good luck to all who enter the sweepstakes!