This Texas Farmhouse Is the Retreat We All Need

famous person lensman Harper Smith and commonwealth euphony star Cameron Duddy remake a Texas Hill Country farmhouse and , in the procedure , built a life .

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A few mile west of Austin , in the hilly grasslands of central Texas , Harper Smith and Cameron Duddy stumbled into a storybook . They had n’t been bet for a major move , but they had been using a real acres app at home in Topanga , CA when a funny matter bump : On a getaway to Austin ( and Harper ’s first time in Texas ) , “ We landed , and I got a random presentment that this star sign , one that looked like my favorite puerility Scripture , was on the market , ” she says . It feel like a augury , and they buy it the next mean solar day .

Duddy house kitchen

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Greener Pastures

They had a hunch that live a quieter living would bung their spirits and displace their creativeness , so the coupleloaded up their livesand their potbellied pig , Pepper , and moved to the area . Harper says her husband , an award - winning video recording medicine theater director from Northern California , make up an unlikely cowboy . But his second career , as the bassist for the area band Midland , earn him his Texas certificate . harpist works on both glide as a way and celebrity lensman and video director . They craved a more passive life , and thisrural retreatheld hope .

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Cameron Duddy , Harper Smith , and their kids , girl Billie and Logos Kitt , celebrate family downtime in their Dripping Springs , TX , farmhouse . Cameron is a vocalizer and wager bass and drums for thecountry band Midland . But in the living room , he make up music on hisgrandparents ’ piano , with Kitt and his pet rat as welcome collaborators .

Exterior of modern home

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Texas Cool

But peace did n’t occur right aside . The houseneeded an update . Harper built layer humour boards to draw what she call a “ enceinte limiting ” project . Her goals include gap rooms , add tons of glass , and take out all signs of the varnished oak carpentry with its telltale yellow goal . Demo bring out mold in the walls , so they had to pull apart a good deal more of the star sign than planned . “ As the dominoes return , I had to rethink my vision , ” she say .

While thecontractors were manage with the mold , Harper contactedAmy Pigliacampo , an interior designerwho started out as a way stylist . “ Harper had the best mood plug-in I ’ve ever seen , ” Pigliacampo says . “ Her vision was clear . She and Cam are irreverent , fun citizenry who do n’t take themselves too seriously . ” Harper and Pigliacampo meet up at Round Top Antiques Fair to shop for furniture , but Harper ’s love of art led her astray . “ Did I buy amazing furniture ? No , I bought three paintings . It ’s a rule I live by : Buy the fine art first . Everything else can follow , ” she suppose .

In the living room , windows envelop the walls . Cameron and Harper take not to string up curtains here so they could enjoy the texture of the Edwin Herbert Land and see how the light shift throughout the day . Their son Kitt and his best near dog Remi , a saving from an Idaho killing shelter , sit down on the living room sofa . The animation room sofa from Eternity Modern dampen the sharpness .

Harper Smith and family

Harper downplay the stone fireplace ’s rustic appearance with acoat of German malignment , a finishing achieved by spreading mortar on a masonry surface like brick or stone . The result looks whitewashed .

Rooms for Gathering

Thekitchen style is Japandi , which meshesJapaneseandScandinaviandesign bank note . Hallmarks includemodern slab - front cabinets , bare wood , and fluting . The stools were cut from a unmarried tree trunk . The small landscape house painting leaning on the kitchen shelf pep up the room ’s palette . The abstruse empurpled darkness and quick cream led Harper to pick out Calacatta Viola marble , a Harlan Fiske Stone with a bluff lavender vein , forthe backsplash . roofing tile were a more affordable alternative than a slab . flimsy bitter spar counters deliver a modern look . “ Sometimes we walk through the kitchen and sense like , We’re so fancy . I do n’t recognize how I got to be so lucky , ” Harper says .

For the interior decoration , Harper lean into warm naturals — bare-assed Mrs. Henry Wood , unlacquered organisation , leather , marble , and wood floors with an oiled finish rather than polyurethan — that would recrudesce patina with time . She opted for rotund boundary as a mod update . She started with arched exterior doors and ingeminate the curvature with the kitchen island and barstools , dining tabletop , and the headboard in the primary chamber . A relaxed sample of graphics , including a line drawing by Cameron , adds to the way ’s insouciant look . A new Lulu & Georgia table , West Elm side chairs , and vintage end hot seat mix but do n’t oppose for a more curated expression .

Harper Smith

“ Things that reckon perfect do n’t work with this life . I like things with depth , eld , and fictitious character . A little patina allows us to get away with mistakes and messes . ”

Make It Personal

Harper ’s use of colour is spare but bold . The shower environs take care like slab , but it was created with tiles . “ I went a littleBeetlejuicein the privy , ” Harper says . “ I wanted to push it to make it weird as hell and personal . We fuse a lot of I. F. Stone here , and I made the story tile . It ’s wild and so , so fun . ” An arched passage leads to the primary john . There were a few second Harper image in the base before remodeling turn them into reality . The view to the black concrete tub is one such dapple . “ The rest of my tub decisions were built around this , ” she enunciate .

Amy Pigliacampo

Graphic tilesenergize the bathrooms , including the interlocking floor tiles she made for the duet ’s bathroom . “ I spent three months in the garage drenched in Henry Clay and trip , ” she says . As the daughter of a high school ceramics teacher , Harper charter the art in earnest . Many left their sign on the roofing tile projection , including Cameron and his mother . Their best-loved turkey Karen , one of the paunchy pigs , and one of the dogs wandered into the workspace during the unconscious process and mistreat on tile . A pot of fallible tile were discard , but she keep and set up two love life banknote ( hers and Cameron ’s ) , a thumbprint , and the creature footprint . It ’s a metaphor for the kind of life history they want to establish in the household — personal and a little spot mussy . “ It ’s everything we love , ” she says .

Family playing piano

Harper hangs a vintage black - and - white simulacrum from her mamma in the primary bedroom . The couple ’s suite takes on a sophisticated vibe withwarm unripened curtainsadding color . “ curtain are a choice , and one we book for the bedchamber . unembellished windows plug into us with nature , ” she says . The rest of thescheme layers impersonal shadesof gray , pick , and ecru . Theupholstered bedis from Soho Home .

“ Because we both puzzle out in photography and TV , we need beautiful light no matter where the sunshine might be in the sky . We bet like our true selves in soft light that resemble a Georgia O’Keeffe painting . ”

Bringing White to Life

Set against cream wall throughout the house , Harper angle into accent colors and blueprint to play up the merriment . Kitt ’s sleeping room is a young space cowman ’s midcentury dream . They oriented the mattress horizontally along the 1960s - style headboard and clothe the layer with cowboy sheets . Harper made the outer space - inspired dependent and painted a white laminate IKEA play mesa a soft sky blue devil to support the look . Thegraphic green tilefrom Clay Imports in Austin takes center stage in the bath . “ Buying local is a dainty agency to connect your home with where you live , ” says room decorator Amy Pigliacampo . A fluted marble cesspool tot up interest but does n’t vie with the tile .

The landing place at the top of the stairs will one day become a game elbow room , but while the kids are young , it ’s a fun station to hang out together . Theframed posterfeatures Cameron ’s dance step - grandmother , actress Connie Stevens . Harper and Cameron got engaged at her home plate .

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