This home has star quality of its own. It’s an entirely new build with an interior design conceived by the award-winning Austin-based practice, Christina Cole Studio, whose eponymous founder is renowned for her quiet but commanding interiors bathed in soft light and clad in natural untreated materials that lend spaces a refined but lived-in look. This was an unusual project for the designer and her team, in so far that there was no client brief, since the house was designed for a developer to sell. Sticking steadfastly to her principles, Cole envisaged a warm and contemporary home with an authentic and timeless design at its heart which, in spite of being unoccupied, is strongly rooted in landscape, people and place.