We collaborated with an interior designer based in Chicago for a family that had moved from there to Austin.  The driver for the project was to maintain the historical integrity  of the home - and focus on small yet critical reconfigurations of the interior space - we removed the fireplace to open up the living room and enhance its connection to the newly remodeled kitchen.  We expanded and reconfigured the guest bathroom and its entry, shifted HVAC into the attic, and opened up the floor plan while modernizing the insulation and HVAC systems of the entire home. The steel windows were stripped down and completely restored, as years of maintenance and layers upon layers of old paint had deadened their appeal.