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The wall beside your bed is curved at the corner and the colour of dry clay . You are in Santa Fe , New Mexico , a city whose historic centre has been shaped by adobe building codes for decades . The material is simple : mud , straw and water , pressed into bricks and left to dry . Inside a well - made adobe room , the walls hold the cool of the morning long into the afternoon . Look up and you find a viga — a wooden ceiling beam darkened by age to the colour of walnut . It is roughly as wide as your arm . The tiled floor is cold underfoot at sunrise , and you feel it before you see the room properly . Step outside and the courtyard offers a single terracotta pot against a cream - plastered wall . The pot sits alone , and the quiet around it is part of the picture . Mid - range adobe properties in the historic district typically run from around $ 150 to $ 250 per night in shoulder season . That window falls in spring and early autumn . By late afternoon , the reasons for the building code become visible on the outer walls . Pale tan deepens through ochre and settles into a warm amber . It is as though the earth itself has been lit from inside . You sit still and watch it happen .
