This new home is perched atop a hill overlooking the Austin skyline. Space program includes garage and service areas beneath the main floor of public living spaces and primary bedroom suite. The third-floor houses children’s bedroom suites and playroom. An expansive deck and screened porch open directly from the kitchen/dining room to a deck-level plunge pool and play yard below. Exterior materials feature slurried limestone and standing seam metal roof, while the interior is grounded by white oak floors and millwork. An open-corner fireplace anchors the living room which is capped by a dark-green painted ceiling enhancing the intimate scale. Soft furnishings in a natural color palette were selected to complete the peaceful environment; art provides punctuation to each space.
I love the simplicity and openness of this home, but I’m mainly featuring it because, and I don’t really understand why, I am completely obsessed with those corner-of-a-room-build-your-fire-on-the-tile-floor type of fireplaces. Architecture and interior design by Cuppett Kilpatrick. Photos: Whit Preston.
