We are excited to share this vibrant and generous contemporary, architect-designed home in Old Lake Highlands near Hexter Elementary.  Architect Robert Croysdale sensitively sited this new home to maximize the use of beneficial natural light to minimize energy usage (daylighting) and to engage the outdoor spaces created by the home’s C-shaped floor plan.  Inspired by the principles of the sustainable building industry, the architect utilized additional ceiling and wall insulation, efficient HVAC design, and low water and energy use fixtures, appliances, and landscape design to reduce the home’s operating cost and environmental impact.

When you learn this new Lakewood home was designed around the love for an existing mature live oak tree by a vibrant family with architect Bentley Tibbs, now with Abeyta Tibbs Architecture, and interior designer Alice Cottrell, you may instantly imagine a place like a retreat that is soulful and sensual, modern but textural, and you would be right. Tibbs, who perceives natural light as a building material, consciously weaves connections to the site through the continuity of building materials from the exterior to the interior and framed views into the surrounding gardens by Bonick Landscaping.  We cannot wait for you to experience this harmonious collaboration of creativity and vision!

Dedicated WRHT patrons and former Hexter parents, this passionate, artistic family dreamed up a renovation and addition that would keep the character of their beloved original 1951 cottage while adding a series of well-designed modern elements that embrace natural light and contemporary craft and detailing.  Combined with the vision of the designer and builder, the product is alluring and unique, human in scale, sensitive to place, and considered in every way.

It should come as no surprise that the Mediterranean Gardens Women’s Club has hosted their annual July 4th potluck and parade on the picturesque front lawn of this wonderful storybook ranch for several generations.  Built in 1955, this charming home was recently renovated and imaginatively expanded by the third generation of the original homeowners.  The new addition was carefully woven into the existing home, repeating the unique characteristics of the original dramatic roof and hand-carved eave braces while transitioning into expansive glass walls which deepen the experience of the spacious site.  Rich in history, story and mystery, this home is not to be missed.

A pure example of everything we admire in MCMs, you will fall in love with this thoughtfully restored, exuberant modern home built 1957. As part of the Lakeland Hills section of Highland Meadows, these homes were originally advertised as “expressions of forward thinking” equipped with “revolutionary Frigidaire” appliances and air conditioning systems.
This home lives up to this sense of optimism for the future through the celebration of technology and design, through the articulation of structure and space, through Architecture – the house seems to say, “look what I can do!” Notice the clarity and consistency of the structural system, in its massing and detail, continuous from the exterior through the interior of the home. And lucky for us, these wonderful homeowners have continued the celebration through creative projects that further deepen a special sense of place.

We are excited to share this impressive home with you on the tour this year.  Not only is it designed by a WRHT favorite, architect Cliff Welch, it is masterfully placed on a spectacular site to maximize breathtaking views only visible from the home’s interior.  Characteristic of Welch’s work, the home is expertly detailed and flawlessly executed.  Be prepared to be inspired!