A Hillside Midcentury Ranch House Renovation in Texas

A Texas-born couple returns to their roots, carving out a family base from a dilapidated 1957 home in Austin.

Native Texans and married designers Elizabeth Alford and Michael Young came home to roost 10 years ago, when they ditched big-city life in New York for a ranch house in Austin. The home, originally built by architect Jonathan Bowman in 1957, sits in a landscape of limestone cliffs in the Balcones fault zone, the geographical boundary between the prairie lands that extend all the way to the Gulf of Mexico and the rolling, agriculture-rich Hill Country.

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Addie Broyles
Addie Broyles is a writer based in Austin, Texas.

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