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Floor Plan of O’Neil Ford Midcentury by Lake|Flato and Office of Tangible Space

Before: This house in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Austin, Texas was originally designed by architect George L. Walling and built in 1950.

After purchasing the home in 2020, Chanel and Eric Tarlo worked with architect Scott Parks of Scott Parks Studio on a restoration.

The architect removed the clunky addition enclosing the front door and reinstated the original door and sidelites. New and restored board-and-batten siding is painted Roycroft Bronze Green by Sherwin Williams.

Before: A later addition to the house included the windowed stairwell and a bedroom wing that hovered over the backyard, accessed by a bright metal staircase.

The cantilevered addition was kept, and another bedroom added to the second floor over the existing house. Parks collaborated with Fort Structures to ensure that the third addition would sync with the rest of the house, replicating the window placement to make them sit between the roof beams, while still meeting current code and insulating the ceiling.

Floor plan of Hyde Park Residence by Scott Parks Studio

Hooper House II owner Richard North stands outside his glass-walled living room, which also houses his small library of books about Breuer.

The storage extends to the wall, and an office space is tucked on the other side of the staircase. No baseboard or trim underscores “where materials come together and form a reveal between them, rather than having an additive baseboard,” says Montgomery. “It’s about a reduction and elimination to try to create a cleaner visual for your eye.”

The contrasting style of the original home and the 70s-era addition come together in this space, now with white oak wall paneling and a twenty-foot-long, seven-foot-wide custom sofa designed by Office of Tangible Space. The painting is by Kathan Zerzan.

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