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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.
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
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
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
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
clayton@moreland.com
512-797-6446