GLOBAL STYLE A hilltop hacienda

Santa Barbara on the central California coast is well known for its Spanish-derivative architecture, dotted with white stucco buildings with red-tile roofs reflecting the city’s Spanish colonial heritage. This sprawling ranch, owned by a well-travelled couple, generously surrounded by the landscape and greenery of the majestic Santa Barbara mountain range, had all the hallmarks of that traditional style. But, although generous in scale, the home’s interior was a haphazard cacophony of pattern