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Crestway House in Austin, Texas

August 13, 2025

Architect: Bhavani Singal

Location: Austin, Texas, USA

Photos by Robert Gomez

Crestway House, Austin, Texas, USA

The family asked for a contemporary one-story home that exudes warmth and coziness. Their previous home had been a modern “white box” and they wanted a more family-friendly environment.

Although the 3,400 square foot house with four bedrooms and four baths reuses most of the footprint of the house that previously occupied the lot, it is also designed to expand and contract as the family’s needs change.

Located on an active street near Mt. Bonnell, the site is loosely screened by a grove of skinny-trunked trees with high canopies before it drops some eight feet away from the road.

Workshop No.5’s design highlights this visual interest at the curb by allowing the home’s low-slung volumes – expressed in stucco, wood and vertically installed board-and-batten siding – to provide a simple backdrop. To maintain the privacy preferred by the owners, most windows
were pushed to the back, overlooking the pool and backyard. The verticality of the trees also became a defining design vocabulary.

A brick fireplace is centered between the open living/dining spaces, adding a subtle contrast of rough-hewn texture, warm coloring, and horizontal striation, while helping to break up the scale of the space. The brick is repeated at the bar, pulling that tactile quality into the dining area.

In contrast, sleek metal panels surrounding the television and quartz tile backsplash in the kitchen provide a cooler balance, creating a lively conversation between materials.