Baylor Street Bungalow
Austin, TX (Under Construction)
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Baylor is a quintessential Austin “tree-house” transformation. The Bungalow was completely remodeled to add additional space and unlock the existing interior spaces’ potential to be larger and more open. All of these moves sympathetically preserve and embrace a large heritage oak tree that anchors the house in terms of place-making and provides substantial shade.
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The new top floor primary suite, with its sleeping area and place for playing piano, overlooks the Austin skyline and provides both inspiration and refuge. Like the steel decks on all levels, this new floor is constructed from steel to ensure maximum openness and light.
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As one walks through the house, and the ground slopes away, “original” and “new” begin to reveal themselves through ever larger spaces until arriving on the outside deck on the ground floor where views are most expansive. Above the deck rests a glass primary suite, and below, a reconfigured and separate apartment nestles into the site’s slope.
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Great care was taken to celebrate the site and allow decks and side yards to become “pocket” destinations in their own right, adding variety to the interior spaces.