A Former Dentist’s Office Becomes an Intriguingly Layered Home on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula
Two ex-New Yorkers reimagine their lives together and team up with a local architect to create an unexpected residence.
Two ex-New Yorkers reimagine their lives together and team up with a local architect to create an unexpected residence.
From the outside, Casa San Cristobal looks much like the other homes in Mérida’s historic center, with a tall plaster wall that faces the street—no front garden, no way to peek inside. The only signs that something special lies behind the pale-green facade are the sleek house numbers and two bright-blue doors.
Designer Marc Perrotta and travel editor and writer John Newton renovated and expanded a colonial building in Mérida, Mexico, with the help of Jorge Novelo Caamal of Paralelo 20.
Photo: Fabian Martinez
These hints do little to prepare you for entering the dramatic 2,381-square-foot home that architectural designer Marc Perrotta shares with his husband, travel writer and editor John Newton, and their miniature Pinscher, Lily Beth. A towering front room spans the width of the property, the laptops on a concrete-top table and a low bookshelf running along the wall indicating that it’s the couple’s home office.
Photo: Fabian Martinez
In the front room, a painting by local artist Jorge Patrón LeDoux hangs above a wooden bookcase designed by Marc. The space also serves as Marc and John’s office.
Photo: Fabian Martinez
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