The Philips Residence sits on the edge of a cliff in Georgetown — the kind of lot where the land does most of the talking. The surprise when you walk through the door is the view. We built the house to make sure it never lets you forget it’s there.
The design is Texas Tuscan — open floor plan, warm materials, the kind of architecture that feels rooted in Central Texas without being generic about it. We worked with a young family building their forever home, and that shaped every decision: spaces that could grow with them, sightlines that connected indoor to outdoor, a house meant to be lived in hard for a long time.
The detail we’re proudest of on this build is the cedar corbels. We pulled the design from antique Texas mission architecture — old churches and civic buildings where craftsmen carved decorative brackets into heavy timber. Here we adapted that into cedar corbels woven into the design of the home. It’s the kind of element you notice on a second look, and then you can’t stop noticing it.
The lot made this project. Not every build gets a cliff edge and a view like this one. Our job was to position the house so it earned that lot — and then stay out of its way.
