Architecture and Landscape Design: Sarah Nettleton Architects

Designed as gallery, studio, and residence for an artist, this house takes inspiration from the owner’s love of cubist art. The program includes an upper level studio with ample north light, access to outdoor decks to the north and south, which offer panoramic views of East Austin. A gallery is housed on the main floor. A cool, monochromatic palette and spare aesthetic defines interior and exterior, schewing, at the owner’s request, any warming elements to provide a neutral backdrop for her art collection. Thus, finishes were selected to recede as well as for their longevity and low life scycle costs. Stair rails are steel, floors are sealed concrete and the base trim clear aluminum. Where walls are not exposed CMU, they are painted white. By design, the fireplace provides a singular source of warmth, the gas flame emanating from a bed of crushed glass, surrounded on three sides by a polished concrete hearth.

Patrick Reynolds

Samuel Frost

Cammie Owens

Sparano + Mooney Architecture / Dustin Aksland

Photography by Matthew Millman

Photo: www.mikikokikuyama.com

Photo: Bilyana Dimitrova Photography ©2007

Architecture www.baiarchitects.com Interiors www.mbiinteriors.com Photos Michael Boland

Fredric J Ueckert

Onxy stained oak with high gloss white laminate cabinets. White Chroma countertop with waterfall on ends of cabinets. Architect- Pb Elemental Photography- Mel Curtis Photography

Eckert and Eckert Photography

With sun pouring in through the high light windows over the free form living, there's something so comfortable about sitting in a room with nothing but a gentle breeze passing through. And with the bifold doors open at both ends of the living space, it's hard to not feel relaxed in a room that offers views at both ends.