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A wood slat wall at the stairs and lining the hallway for the primary suite allows light from the skylight to infiltrate additional areas of the house.

With its concrete and metal finishes and brutalist edges, the home is unrecognisable.

The new exterior was kept dark, but the front door was given a punch of color.

Several handcrafted pieces by local artist Jim Olarte adorn the home, including this architectural macrame installation on the entry wall, made using old fisherman’s rope found on the beach. “It’s cool seeing him take what was once waste, found by the ocean, and reuse it for something one-of-a-kind and so beautiful,” says Leah.

The playful, color-blocked Kardiel sideboard separates the dining and living areas.

A view of the connecting vestibule for which the house is named. The exterior is clad entirely in tiles made from recycled rubber and plastic—technically a roofing material—giving the eaveless home a tightly wrapped skin. “Although we used a traditional gabled form, we wanted to clean it up quite a bit,” says Bruns.

The detached building, perfect for dinner parties or events, is appropriately dubbed the MacBarn.

The upstairs guest bath includes a salvaged 19th-century soaking tub wrapped in stainless steel. Givone also installed a hand-chiseled sink made of 17th-century marble quarried from the hills outside of Rome.

The primary bath includes double sinks, a freestanding tub with jets, and a walk-in rain shower.

The addition’s pitched roofline matches the form of the original 1820s farmhouse.

Guess used inexpensive graded pine plywood so that he would get heavy grain patterns on the surfaces. One of the main goals in the kitchen was simplicity. To that end, he opted for a poured-in-place concrete island. "We didn’t know if we could afford to do that, but we found a great subcontractor [Nate Francis of Countertop Creations] here who had never really built anything like that," Guess says. "Because he was interested in giving it a shot and adding it to his portfolio, he didn’t charge an exorbitant amount of money because it was sort of an experiment for him as well." The kitchen features a GE Profile refrigerator and KitchenAid range, microwave, and dishwasher. The sink and faucet are from Kohler. The project's builder was Joe Doherty with Custom Homecrafters of Austin.

Tom works on his latest series of sculptures as daylight flows into his basement studio from the sunken front garden.

The master bedroom is chic, yet functional with a Room and Board bed frame swathed in Coyuchi bedding, Vintage Rug Shop pillows, and Moroccan blanket. Article nightstands flank either side with Room and Board wall sconces overtop.

Decor will shift by mood, season, or event. Seen here is an art piece from Juniper Print Shop Tasseled and wooden beads from Saffron and Poe.