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2806 Robbs Run
Austin, TX 78703
5

Beds

4F + 1 H

Baths

3-Car

Garage

This house is famous for all the RIGHT reasons. Renowned architect Heather McKinney created this award-winning, environmentally-conscious “treehouse castle” surrounded by a grove of mature trees. Foliage and nature-inspired, low-maintenance landscaping offer so much privacy that you’d never know you’re perfectly centered in the most walkable zone of West Austin: within a half-mile walk you’ll find schools, groceries, restaurants, upscale shopping, and more (see attached).The city’s newest H-E-B grocery/BBQ/bar is a five minute drive; downtown less than ten.

The modern design pairs architectural distinction with comfort. A high-ceilinged, open plan pairs soaring main spaces and more intimate rooms. Bask in natural light all day long through large windows and a glass-wrapped open staircase. Invite breezes into an airy living room through a foldable glass wall opening to a double-height screen porch with limestone fireplace. Reinforced gallery art walls showcase collections, art, or tech. Entertain in style in a party-perfect gourmet kitchen with plentiful workspace, copious storage, and a stunning formal dining room/library. Retreat into the romantic primary suite with glass reading nook, balcony, and spa-inspired bath. Treat yourself every day with extras like a yoga nook, a flex space perfect for play or home gym, a craft room, and a private home office lined floor to ceiling with bookshelves.

Not only beautiful, the house is also green and practical. Solar panels produce a sizable percentage of its energy, Easy-care HardiePlank, sustainably-sourced hardwoods, and low-VOC paints and glues were used throughout. A dumbwaiter makes transporting groceries easy. An oversized 3-car garage with workshop space & expansive storage room, plus 4 paved parking spots for guests. Elegant as an entertaining venue, yet immensely livable as a family home. This is the first time, and probably last time, that this home will be available for a generation.

​Neighborhood Details

Half-mile radius (very walkable!)

Casis Elementary

Rawson Sanders School

US Post Office

Howson Public Library

Reed Park (playground and nature trail)

Randalls Grocery

Rabbit Food Grocery

Tarrytown Pharmacy

Food! Food! Deli

The Beer Plant

Starbucks

Tellus Joe Coffee

Steve’s Liquor

Tarrytown Dance Studio

Breath and Body Yoga

Move Austin Fitness

Rō Fitness

Reform Pilates

Estilo

Hearth and Soul

M Robinson’s Fine Jewelry

The Menagerie Jewelry shop

Comerica Bank

Frost Bank

Wells Fargo Bank

PakMail

Western Union

Westbank Dry Cleaning

Jack Brown Cleaners

Tarrytown Dental

Austin Vision Center

Tarrytown Nails and Spa

Austin Pets Alive!

Shell

Texaco

Caesar’s Car Detailing

The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd

Tarrytown United Methodist Church

Tarrytown Christian Church

Other Neighborhood Highlights:

Brand-new HEB w/ BBQ restaurant and full bar

Mozart’s

Maudie’s

Tumble 22

Juiceland

Olive and June

Tiny Boxwoods

Flo’s Wine Bar

Casis Park

Deep Eddy Pool

Ladybird Hike and Bike Trail

Redbud Isle Park

Contemporary Austin at Laguna Gloria sculpture park and art school

Mayfield Park

Mount Bonnell

Construction

A pair of tall, slim houses with a glass slot joins and splits the structure top to bottom, flooding light throughout. McKinney York used such materials as metal roofs for rainwater collection, cementitious siding and recycled local stone for the retaining walls and porch fireplace. Tarrytown is known for clay soil that expands and contracts in response to moisture levels. This expansion is protected against by the retaining walls that maintain a "moat," 20-foot piers to bedrock on which the house is built, and "floating slab" garage-bay floors (includes storage closet and lowest-floor half-bath) that move independently of the whole-house structure, allowing them to raise or lower without causing stress on the house's foundation.

The French drain in the "moat" around the house empties collected water into an underground tank between the garage doors which is automatically emptied by a pump into the dry creek.

Nanawall folding window system

HardiePlank siding

Fire and security system

Built-in speakers

​5-star Green Energy Features

Five-star rating from City of Austin Green Building Program (the highest rating, only given to .5% of submitted projects, as of 2005)

1,200 gallon rainwater collection cistern for garden irrigation

house sited to protect specimen trees

salvaged stone from former house on lot reused to create fireplace and retaining walls

high performance spray foam insulation for exterior envelope including sealed attic space

high efficiency water-cooled air conditioning system utilizing an evaporative condenser, a variation of a “cooling tower”

Solar Panels- have provided 40% of house’s energy

low-water consumption, native plants

VOC-free compressed wheat board used for 75% of interior cabinet materials

recycled glass terrazzo countertop in guest bathroom

optimization of daylighting and cross-ventilation

Accolades

Merit Award, AIA Austin, 2006;

Five Star Rating, Austin Energy Green Building, 2006;

2005 AIA Austin Homes Tour.

Publication: Austin American-Statesman, May 2007;

Austin Home Magazine, Summer 2014;

Austin Monthly Home, Spring 2007;

Austin Monthly Home, Fall 2009;

Innovative Home, Jan 2008

Residential Architect, Mar 2006

Texas Coop Power, June 2006

Western Interiors, June/July 2007

Western Interiors, Aug/Sep 2008

Wired, Jan 2007

New Sustainable Homes: Designs for Healthy Living, Harper Design, 2006

Austin Now, KLRU

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Clayton Bullock

Clayton Bullock

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clayton@moreland.com
512-797-6446

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