One bright day in 2018, Lauren and Robert Vaughn were married at the Monterey Peninsula Country Club in Pebble Beach, California. The 1926 Spanish Colonial Revival clubhouse was a natural choice for their nuptials, as it had played backdrop to many shared memories with their families. Building their own custom home years later, they would revisit that night dancing under its vaulted ceilings buttressed with thick timber beams. What if they could conjure the clubhouse’s magic on a leafy corner lot in North Dallas? The idea “was very sentimental,” Lauren recalls. “We both wanted to recreate the beautiful mix of stucco walls, barrel-tile roof and wood accents.”
Their mood board of memories would guide architect David Stocker and designer Erin Sander from the beginning, as they incorporated personal gestures throughout the abode. Backed by a skilled team of craftspeople led by builder Scott Faulkner, the project evolved into “a refined, elegant take on the architectural style that’s so closely tied to the family’s history,” Sander describes.
The exterior channels those classic hallmarks, with rich plastered walls, a terra-cotta-tiled roof and prominent wood frames. All together, these Spanish-style features “could feel weighed down,” Stocker notes. So, the architect favored large-format windows and sliding glass doors to soften the residence’s visual density while nurturing a sense of indoor-outdoor living. In turn, the home’s distinct J-shaped layout “ensures all the main living areas receive light from at least two sides,” he notes. Elegant archways help define the otherwise open layout, creating dedicated zones for the formal living and dining areas alongside more fluid spaces like the kitchen-anchored great room. “Traditional Spanish Colonial Revival houses needed those divisions of space,” the architect muses. “We were always trying to find a balance.”