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Hill Country Houses: Inspired Living in a Legendary Texas Landscape

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Anchored by Austin and San Antonio, Texas Hill Country is celebrated for its frontier history and natural beauty. Architects and interior designers build latest houses the use of local materials and drawing at the area’s diverse heritage—Spanish Colonial missions and Mexican-style haciendas, French pioneers’ log cabins, German stonework, and the legacy of the “new regionalism” espoused by O’Neil Ford within the 1930s—to create inspired residences that respect tradition and make allowance their owners to enjoy expansive rural surroundings.
 
This volume presents nineteen of the area’s most remarkable private houses, with lush photography to supply a glimpse of how life in Central Texas is unique—from restored Victorian houses in bohemian Southtown, to a glass-walled ranch in Boerne canopied by oak trees; from floating stairs and sustainable systems to the casual elegance of country antiques, screen porches, and longleaf pine floors.
 
The rolling hills, spring-fed creeks, rivers, timber forests, and fertile grass-covered prairies of Hill Country—at the side of their abundance of natural materials such as limestone, cedar, local pecan, mesquite, oak, and cypress—inspire architects and interior designers to create beautiful up to date spaces. They draw from the strong vernacular tradition of classic farmhouses that once dotted the land, and the building techniques which have been handed down through generations. The architecture and interiors featured here in beautiful full-color photography celebrate the fantastic particularities of this singular place.

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