West Lake Hills, Texas
The Arcade House
A whole-home transformation composed around a single repeated gesture — the white plaster arch — so that every room arrives as a quiet reveal.
West Lake Hills, Texas
A whole-home transformation composed around a single repeated gesture — the white plaster arch — so that every room arrives as a quiet reveal.
The Project
Location
Scope
Whole-home transformation · lounge & bar · dining · art curation
Services
Full-Service Interior Design · Space Planning · Furniture & Custom Pieces
The house had generous rooms and no thread between them. Its owners — a couple who host often and collect art slowly — asked for a home that moved with more grace. The answer became architectural, and it repeated.
Working from a new plan for the main level, the studio drew a procession of white plaster arches through the center of the house, set beneath a ceiling of exposed oak beams. Each opening frames the next, so the eye is always being led somewhere — down the gallery hall, into the lounge, toward the light. Plaster was chosen for the way it holds shadow; by late afternoon each curve carries its own gradient of warm and cool, and the hallway reads almost as sculpture.
Art Curation
Once the arcade was in place, the architecture began doing double duty. Each opening became a proscenium — a place where a single work could hold the whole view.
The studio curated the collection with the clients over several months, sitting with each piece before committing. Works were sequenced so that color deepens as the house moves from public rooms to private ones, and a brass-framed abstract now anchors the axis of the main hall, centered in its arch like a held breath. Nothing hangs where it competes; everything hangs where it belongs.
Lounge, Bar & Dining
Evenings gather in two rooms. In the lounge, a curved sofa in rust boucle — commissioned for the room — turns guests toward one another and opens, through the widest arch, to a bar carved in quartzite.
It is a hospitality move borrowed from Brady's years in hotel-informed design: a drink can be made without anyone leaving the conversation. A few steps on, dining happens beneath hand-blown glass pendants, their light pooling on the table, while a full-height wine wall stands behind glass — the bottles becoming texture, almost a material in their own right. The house that once ended its days early now has somewhere to linger.
The Setting
The Arcade House sits in the hills west of Austin, where lots fall toward the canyons and daylight arrives filtered through live oaks — light the plaster was chosen to catch. The studio works throughout the neighborhood.
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