Lynbrook Street House, Houston, Texas

Built as an infill project in an established neighborhood, the house, the design utilizes a careful attention to detail and a variety of materials to achieve a quiet elegance. The design conceals the large size of the house (6300 square feet) on a fairly tight lot allowing it to blend in well with its one story neighbors.

The house is organized around a great room with a high beamed volume ceiling and oversized windows and doors. A large stone fireplace surround dominates the room, completing the feeling of the English Manor House. A front "parlor" conceals a fully furnished home office. The rear of the house extends out to a courtyard, providing views from each of the main rooms to the pool, spa and garden. The garden side of the house was detailed as a series of separate forms, giving the courtyard the feel of a Tudor street and lessening the impact of a two story mass around the pool.