On the spectrum of housing typologies, and the history of housing in America as a whole, there are two drastically different approaches to home-building that cover the surface of our built environment: the bespoke home and the suburban track community. Yet, in the desert landscape of Southern California’s Coachella Valley, these two opposed residential typologies fuse as one in the form of the residential country club. In a study of eight of the most exclusive, expensive, and prestigious clubs of the desert, design regulation guidelines- or strict regulations on how architecture must look in these spaces- were found to regulate the aesthetic cores of the communities and the creative limits of custom home building. Furthermore, they dictate how residents must behave according to, buy in, or challenge the notion of homogeneity within the communities. A deep dive into the elite country clubs of the Coachella Valley brought to surface the importance of understanding these landscapes of privilege, instead of just critiquing them.