A couple with a young daughter purchased this 1978 Austin, Texas, ranch house from its original owner. While the new residents appreciated that the interiors had remained untouched since the ’70s, they wanted to make the house their own and hired Realty Restoration to fully renovate it.

Part of the work involved transforming the dated hall bath with an awkward layout into an en suite guest bath. The owners “had lived in Paris and wanted to bring some of the beautiful style they’d seen there to Texas,” says Realty Restoration project manager Jenny Curtiss. “They loved color and pattern so much that they even wanted to try and save some of the original vintage wallpapers in the house.”

Though necessities like reframing, shoring up walls, moving plumbing lines and bringing the electrical system up to code made that impossible, they hired interior designer Lauren Jerden of Lauren Allyn Interiors to keep the home’s colorful, spirited soul alive.