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N° 002
Wimberley, Texas·10 Acres·$2.9M
Ten acres above the Blanco
The Spec Sheet
- Windows
- Aluminum-clad wood, thermally broken
- Flooring
- Wide-plank white oak, site finished
- Cabinetry
- Custom rift white oak, inset doors
- Countertops
- Honed quartzite, mitered edges
- Appliances
- Panel-front refrigeration, gas range
- HVAC
- Two-zone variable speed, sealed attic
- Water Heater
- Tankless gas, recirculating loop
- Roof
- Standing seam metal, 24 gauge
The Details
The choices that make this house worth a closer look.
The Envelope
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The Kitchen
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Our Take
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Sample text. Start with the site. Ten acres of oak savanna above the Blanco rewards a builder who reads the land before drawing the plan, and this one mostly did. Trees left where they were, grading that moves water away from the terrace instead of toward it, and a drive that arrives at the short side of the house rather than the front door.
“Spend the money on the roof, the windows, and the water. Everything else is a finish decision you can make twice.”
Sample text. Inside, the envelope is the story. Spray foam at the roofline, a mechanical room sized for service rather than for the plan, and window units heavier than what this price point usually gets. The structure is expressed rather than applied, and the beams line up with the window mullions, which almost never happens by accident.
Sample text. Where the plan gives ground: the primary bath spends two feet on a corner tub nobody will use, the pantry is a doorway short of genuinely useful, and the garage stair lands in the middle of the mudroom. None of those are dealbreakers. All of them are cheaper to change now than later.
Sample text. The price sits near the top of the range for the area, and the spec supports most of it. Against a production build twenty minutes east, the difference is the site, the envelope, and the fact that the mistakes here are cosmetic instead of structural.
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