Rollingwood’s tranquil simplicity draws from the owners’ great love of rural architecture. Carved into a steep acre of Texas hillside, the house rests on a massive stone pedestal threaded with native oak trees, palms, and bougainvillea. Gabled roofs and exposed rafter tails offer shade and shield from the elements; the primitive beauty of curving archways ripples across the house, echoing from entry to egress and establishing both a sense of lightness and permanence. Elegance emerges from this interplay between elements––graceful arcs cut into thick stucco slabs; sheets of glass framed in dark steel; sunlit walls grounded by a heavy floor. The density of the larger structure is quieted by an arbor, a screened porch, the delicate contrast of the landscape––a garden that happens to envelop a home. A sanctuary.
Michael Deane Homes
Studio Seiders
The Garden Design Studio
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