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REVISION HOUSE AUSTIN PROJECT
A Millennial
Makeover
Upgrading this home in Austin’s hot market put both clients and
contractors to the test. But the job must (and did) go on.
When we were first introduced to the
Austin ReVISION house, we had our
doubts. The home, on its face, bore the marks
of fast-tracked production building for the
pseudo-luxury experience. Did it really need Project details
the many upgrades and changes its millennial
buyers thought were so essential? PROPERTY LOCATION: GEORGETOWN, TX (SUBURB OF
We called in our friend CR Herro, VP of AUSTIN) IN THE SAN GABRIEL HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD
Meritage Homes, to walk the house, poke
around in the vast, unconditioned attic DATE OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION: 1998
space, and look behind the walls. Naturally ORIGINAL SQUARE FOOTAGE: 3,445 SF
he found problems that don’t show up on
camera: missing insulation, missed framing REMODELED SQUARE FOOTAGE: ALL REMODELING WITHIN
details, a poorly planned and executed kitchen, ORIGINAL 3,445 SF FOOTPRINT
and a terrible, energy-guzzling envelope,
compensated for with an inefficient, oversized TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION: STICK FRAME CLAD WITH STONE
HVAC System.
In progress
