Garden room addition
Sunroom Retreat
- Location
- Austin, TX
- Year
- 2025
- Scope
- Garden room addition
Project Note
A glass-walled sunroom off the rear of a 1930s bungalow, planned as a year-round reading and breakfast space. Terracotta floors, limewashed walls, and a single linen daybed beneath three arched windows.
The Story
The clients wanted a room that worked as well at 7am with coffee as at 9pm with a glass of wine. We anchored the floor in handmade terracotta from a small kiln outside San Antonio, ran sheer linen drapes across all three arched windows, and brought in a single antique daybed instead of a sofa.
An olive tree, planted in a vintage olive jar, marks the corner. The radiator is original to the house and was deliberately left visible.
Materials
The short list
of things we used.
Every choice was made in the actual light of the house, with the owners present, on a single afternoon.
- Handmade terracottaFloor tile, sealed natural
- LimewashWalls, two coats
- Belgian linenSheer drapery & daybed
- Reclaimed olive jarOlive tree, planted on site
Credits
- Architect
- Sloane Architecture
- Builder
- Hill Country Build Co.
- Photography
- Ren Park
- Duration
- 6 months
