Deliberately rusted, the Hill Country house blends into the surrounding landscape, just like the retired homeowners wanted.
NEW BRAUNFELS — Nancy and David Beck were done with the big house for kids and their dogs and all the maintenance required to keep a house like that going.house was the entertaining house, usually with 20-plus kids from middle school through college and all their dogs in the swimming pool. It was bedlam over there,” Nancy said.
The home also has won some critical acclaim and was named a finalist in the Custom Residential Architecture Network Awards by the San Antonio chapter of the American Institute of Architects.Construction began in late 2018 and the couple moved into the house in May 2021. “Construction took longer than we wanted,” said Steve Raike, a Lake | Flato partner and lead architect on the project. “The pandemic delayed it, and it takes a long time to build homes like this. Every one is unique.
The house consists of two wings, one for the kitchen and living room and one for the bedroom, connected by the foyer. The glass entryway provides a view through the house to the back of the lot as it falls away to the river below, giving visitors a sense of how the house extends over the edge of the steep hill.
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