Careful consideration to all of her client’s requests had to be taken when architect Katheryn Lott, AIA, RID, LEED AP BD+C, set out to design a private residence on a small golf course in Austin, TX. Lott, who owns her own Austin-based firm, Katheryn Lott Architects, had to incorporate the homeowners’ love for entertaining, along with a desire for rustic charm and low-maintenance building materials, into the design of their new home. The answer was to build the structure with regional sandstone and limestone.
“[My client was] an executive from an international firm and his wife who dreamed of living on a small golf course lot in Austin,” the architect explained. “They wanted to achieve a comfortable feel — a balance of wood and stone with the use of warm colors.”