Sometimes you can pick your neighbors. That was the case for this young family of four, which approached the owners of a contemporary home being built next door to their best friends’ lake house in Horseshoe Bay, Texas. The timing was right, and the original owners agreed to sell. By a happy coincidence, Etch Design Group worked on the design with both sets of owners.
Etch began working with the original homeowners during the construction phase, helping select key finishes such as flooring, tile, countertops, cabinetry and lighting. The new homeowners purchased the house about two months before it was completed. After admiring Etch’s work online, they hired the team to help furnish the interior and layer in the final design elements — furniture, rugs, art and accessories — making some tweaks to tile and lighting along the way. The result is a warm contemporary home that’s family-friendly, with room for friends of all ages to have weekend fun at the lake.
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Creating the two asymmetrical forms broke up the scale of the house and gave it a San Juan Islands cabin feel. Butrim also looked to agricultural and maritime buildings, as well as Native American longhouses, for architectural inspiration. The materials, which include weathered cedar at random widths, tinted concrete and dark metal roofing, accomplish two goals. They nod to the history of cabins built on this island, and they help the building blend into the wooded site.
“Originally, the front entry led directly into the corridor,” Butrim says. “However, our clients thought that would feel too formal and they wanted this to be a more casual house. It also felt like an entrance you’d have if you’d driven from the road and down the driveway, which doesn’t happen here. Instead, we thought about them entering the house from the approach from the dock.” The front entry is located on the left side of the house. (The door is open in this photo.)