2812 Cardenas Drive Ne, Albuquerque, NM 87110

Before this was anybody's house, it was the sales office for the model home when the neighborhood went up. It's a Mossman, and it has the things people mean by that: hardwood floors, a vaulted tongue-and-groove ceiling, and a fireplace that opens into two rooms at once.That history is still sitting in the den. Paneled walls, a brick hearth, and the original built-in bar with the Mosssman ''M'' on the facia, glass front cabinet above it lit up for the good glassware. The fireplace runs through the wall to the living room and opens on both sides, so you light one fire and get two rooms out of it.The living room is the other thing people stop for. Tongue and groove ceiling, vaulted and running the full length, hardwood floors, a wall of glass facing the street. Two steps down at the back is the sunroom, and this is where the house really works. Skylight, windows on two sides, three sets of French doors along the back. It's the dining room on paper. What it actually is, most of the year,...