A Svelte Austin Home Enables Cleverly Compact Living

A net-zero house for a family of five makes the most of its narrow lot with adaptable spaces and frameless floor-to-ceiling windows.
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Casey Dunn

When husband-and-wife architects Ernesto Cragnolino and Krista Whitson renovated their previous home—a condo in a landmarked Austin building designed by modernist Harwell Hamilton Harris—they "bickered constantly," as they tell it. 

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Jessica Dailey
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Jessica Dailey is a Brooklyn-based editor, writer, and content strategist interested in where and how people live. www.jessicadailey.me

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