The homeowners of a private residence in Austin, TX, sought a space that exhibited French/English country influences. And to achieve this desired style, they incorporated regional Texas limestone into the home’s design.
 

“The house picks up on a very rural sensibility found in French/English farmhouses,” said Project Architect David Webber of Webber + Studio, Inc. in Austin, TX. “The front door is almost incidentally located, and the largest most entry-like fronts are large archways that indicate the use being more important than the incidental entry a few steps down the facade.”

To create an old farmhouse feel, a variety of regional limestone was hand picked to clad the exterior of a private residence in Austin, TX.

The limestone pieces, which all had a thickness of 4 inches, ranged from 6 inches in size to some that measured 24 x 20 inches and even larger.

The exterior of the main part of the house consists of a fairly soft, local, whitish, fossilized limestone with cut shellstone quoins. Further texture was added by inserting small ledges into the limestone facade.

The other part of the home features a more slurried application for its exterior facade — comprised of multi-colored limestones at various levels of weathered appearance (shown on left).