Careful placement of the main house, guest house and pergola amongst the native mesquite and cedar, and adjacent to a dramatic series of new landscape terraces serves to carve an exterior room from the surrounding rugged Texas Hill Country. This new compound of structures and landscape features, overlooking beautiful Lake Travis near Volente, was created as a weekend getaway for a large extended family. The project involved demolition of an existing structure, the substantial remodel and addition to the existing main house, a new guest house and pergolas, and extensive landscape design and work.