The home at 182 Clover Road was designed for roominess, comfort and to accommodate luxurious living in spectacular surroundings.

 1980, I got the idea to design and build an extraordinary  house. I wanted it to be highly energy-efficient,  and fit into its landscape seamlessly. I was working at the Creative Rapid Learning Center on Navasota Street in Austin at the time - training delinquent youths on the finer points of solar and energy efficient construction. It took about a year of research to come up with the design. My prime design criteria were simplicity and elegance. Although I could have designed every feature with computer controls (being a computer software engineer), I instead opted for sturdiness and directed simplicity. Where the design called for one Joist, I used two. Where it called for 15 supports, I used 25. 

And I designed the house to accommodate my home business, so in addition to three bedrooms.  It has space for five offices which could also be used as bedrooms.  I designed it to accommodate a work at home business.  If you like having guests and gatherings in a peaceful setting, this place would be hard to beat.

It took 10 years to build this house.  In the year 2000 my wife Dorothy and I made substantial renovations to the house, including a new kitchen, swimming pool, decks, gardens and repainting inside and out. We also built a garage workshop.

This is a one-of-a-kind domicile made to be lived in by people who really appreciate the qualities and thoughtfulness involved in it's construction.  Realtors would find no "comparable" houses to judge it against.  It was a labor of love and it will be an adoption, not a sale.

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