The Cedar Park House, the clean-lined cedar and concrete home for the couple and their four children was designed by Architect Peter Cohan. It hunkers onto the lot, angled to embrace the view, its 5,500 square feet minimized by a low profile and horizontal cedar siding.

Cohan set the house back from the steep bank to allow for active outdoor space. He conceived of the terrace and lawn as the most important “rooms” of the house, encircling them with a ring of activities. Breakfast room, kitchen, dining room, all less than 14 feet deep, plus the more cavernous library, are strung along an interior spine and oriented out to lawn and view. “I love the way the house and lake interact,” says Welch. “The house lets the lake in.”

The line between indoors and out is further blurred by pale oak flooring indoors mirrored by the creamy Texas limestone terrace just outside. Then there’s the ship-like prow of the upstairs deck jutting off the master bedroom. With the glass doors wide open, it’s as if the solidity of the home’s corner dissolves away, leaving the deck hovering above the terrace.

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