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TEXAS REARRANGERS

“NEITHER ONE OF US GREW UP IN A MODERN HOUSE, BUT WHAT APPEALED TO US WAS THE OPENNESS AND AIRINESS.” DANA BARUCH, RESIDENT

head one sleepless night in 2012, upending the plans she and her husband, Mike Krell, had laid for their new house. At the time, the two were partway through designing a 2,300-square-foot, three-bedroom residence in the Bouldin area of Austin.

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