My House: She Custom Made More Than 1,000 Kitchen Tiles for Her Austin Renovation

When Amanda Rivera first saw the 1930s Spanish Mediterranean–style house that would become her family home, she was awestruck. "My jaw was dropped the whole time we toured it," she recalls of her and husband Luke’s first visit to the home, in Austin’s Travis Heights neighborhood. "A lot of the original details were preserved, like beautiful vaulted ceilings, arched doorways, and latches on the doors."