Karen Knight knew this was the house for her as soon as she walked through the front door in 2010. For Knight, who considers herself more a fan of French country style, the 1968 A.D. Stenger ranch for sale in the Westlake Hills neighborhood of Austin, Texas, wasn’t exactly what she had in mind. But the home’s efficient layout and tree-filled quarter-acre lot in one of her favorite neighborhoods proved to be a powerful selling point. Despite original dark finishes and small, compartmentalized rooms in the middle of the house, Knight put an offer on it without seeing any other properties. “I knew the potential of what we could do,” she says. Knight hired Austin architect David Webber at the suggestion of Veronica Koltuniak, her friend and interior designer, who had seen his work throughout Austin. When she described the home to Webber, he realized he already knew it, and had even trick-or-treated there as a kid. “Having grown up in the neighborhood, I was very familiar with it and lived in a house designed by the same architect that did hers,” Webber says. Over the next few years, the designers transformed the 1,500-square-foot ranch into a 3,000-square-foot residence to accommodate Knight and her three daughters. Updated finishes and a new A-frame tower preserve the sprit of the house but offer a thoroughly modern twist. “It was so fun to see David’s ginned-up version of a Stenger,” Koltuniak says.

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