This unique 1960 home in a suburb of San Antonio, Texas, was designed by architect Robert Harris for Bernard Lifshutz, a prominent San Antonio real estate developer, civil rights activist and historic preservationist. The home changed hands several times over the years, and with each renovation, the original midcentury modern features were stripped away a bit more.
The current owners, who are big fans of midcentury design, contacted Jana Valdez of Haven Design and Construction after seeing one of the company’s projects online. They wanted to improve the home’s layout, including making changes to the kitchen and primary suite, and resurrect the home’s midcentury features. “They called us pretty quickly after purchasing the house because they knew immediately that they needed a solution for the primary closets being in the main hallway of the house, and they really wanted a walk-in pantry in the kitchen,” Valdez says.
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Who lives here: This is the vacation home of a couple with three adult children
Location: Near Woodstock, Vermont
Size: 5,290 square feet (491 square meters); five bedrooms, six bathrooms
Designers: Ann Shriver Sargent (interior design), David Sargent (architectural design), Sargent Design
Timber frame: Bensonwood
Builder: Housewright Construction
The original home on the more than 100-acre property is a cape-style farmhouse built in 1823. Its longtime owners — whose primary residence is in Massachusetts — hired David and Ann Shriver Sargent, the husband-and-wife team behind interior and architectural design firm Sargent Design, to build a guesthouse when the farmhouse started to feel too small for their growing family and friends.
The farmhouse is situated close to the road, at the bottom of a hill. To accommodate the property’s slope while staying true to the local architecture, the Sargents proposed modeling the guest quarters on a traditional timber-framed banked barn — a style of barn that’s built into a hillside, with “ground-level” entrances on two separate floors. The couple gave a thumbs up, then largely handed over the reins.
This mudroom entrance is next to the garage on the lowest level, which is essentially a walkout basement. Ann Sargent, who handled all of the interior design, placed antique rugs atop the heated slate floor and plenty of hooks on the wall to catch jackets as visitors come in from the cold. All of the home’s exterior doors, including this one, are made of reclaimed chestnut and have custom strap hinges and doorknob escutcheon (back) plates made by Vermont Country Iron.
Scroll to the bottom to see the floor plans for all three levels.
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