I need that poof thing that is hanging from the ceiling.

This is off topic I know but Apartment Therapy, have you or have you not signed an advertising deal with Apple? It's one thing to have the constant ipad/pod/mac/blah posts which you can just skip, but now you're going out of your way to photograph Apple products in house tours and even mention them in the descriptions. Why? Can we all just assume that everyone uses Apple products unless stated otherwise?

Anyway rant aside this is a very nice home, I especially love the aptly named great room with its yellow wall and lanterns and the pool, oh the pool. I do think I'd get lost though, it's massive. Thanks for sharing.

Nice big house! looks very comfortable and relaxing. Love the collectiong of Morrocan lamps but that brown poof thing looks like a big ball of dust to me..haha.
That pool is to die for.

A beautiful home, but whats with all the house tours lately? what happened to apartment tours??? I want to see some tiny bachelor studios again!!

OK, Apartment Therapy. I want to see apartments. You know, like spaces where you don't have 3,800+ square feet to work with. Have we run out of options here? With that said, it's a beautiful home, but if I wanted to see this, I'd pick up a magazine.

I did not see a single thing that I did not love. Yall are truly blessed. Thanks for sharing!

I want the pool. And the dog.

It's a beautiful house and the art is fabulous.

Fantastically beautiful.

The homes for the house tours seem to be getting bigger and bigger.

Drop dead gorgeous, from the first picture to the last. I love everything, including Dango.
The room with the Moroccan lanterns .... the pool ... THE VIEW!!!!

Stunning, stunning, stunning.
Riki and Allen, thank you so much for inviting us in.

I agree the pool was to die for. I felt that there was no unifying element to this house. I was disappointed by the post.

Really lovely home. I like all the different textures (the wood on the ceiling and the cement on the floor and the tiles in the bathroom) combined with the really big windows with all the views. Nice!

I don't get the idea of piling up all the rugs, though. But that's just me. Love the dog, adorable!

the view, pool and dog i loved. the rest seemed to be a confused mass of stuff, some i loved and others, not so much. thx for sharing.

I wish there were captions to the photos. I agree that this tour was a little confusing. At first I thought the rooms were too modern and not really to my liking, then it looked like moving pictures? Then I fell in love.

I know it's Apartment Therapy, but good design comes in all sizes. Who cares if it's 300 sqft or 3000 sqft? There is plenty of content that focuses on small space living. I look at most home tours without ever giving a second thought to whether it's a house or an apartment.

Love it - all of it.

Simply Divine!!!

@Alahoop: The reason people get bent out of shape when there are a lot of large house tours is because focusing on large, rather expensively decorated spaces seems at odds with the site's "belief" that you don't need large amounts of money or space to have a nice home, and it's "goal" of helping people improve their spaces while reducing their reliance on stuff (click on the "About Us" link at the bottom right of the page to see the full mission, beliefs, and goal). Longer time readers may also recall fondly the days when the focus was more on achieving a lovely, functional home in a smaller space with less stuff.

Of course none of this is to say that larger and/or expensively decorated homes should never be featured as they do often provide some great eye candy and design inspiration. But I can understand why there is frustration when the site seems to be featuring a lot of large/fairly lavish homes.

Regarding this house, while I can appreciate some of the architectural flourishes, I personally cannot wrap my head around why two people would even want 3850 sq ft of space and the amount of stuff that one needs to fill it!

yes,nice house,big house,great couple also,nice dog,pool,paintings,,flowers,..you are blessed.enjoy in each day.. you can't achive this without love. Bravo!

love the house, love the pool, love the art.

@Jen - I agree that AT's "mission statement" should be to emphasize working with smaller spaces, but the last thing AT should be is exclusionary. Lots of people can afford larger spaces without being wealthy. AT shouldn't discount the fact that we come from many walks of life and from many different financial backgrounds and geographical locations. A 3,000 square foot rambler in Montana will cost vastly different than the same kind of home in upstate NY. And both can be lovely homes to tour.

And for other commenters here...I don't know if I count as a long time commenter, but I think if you're really looking for inspiration for small spaces and don't think you can get any from these larger homes, do what I do - focus on the rooms themselves, and not the entire home. Get a picture of how the rooms are designed because they might be closer in size to the space you have.

Honestly, I don't really care for the decorating in this house. What a fabulous house to work with too! There's no set aesthetic...things are just sort of thrown all over the place and the colors are off. As artists, there's so much you can do with a space like that creatively and I just felt like they are overwhelmed with the size of the space. What's up with the overly cluttered room with boxes lying around? I would be mortified if someone came to photograph my home and I hadn't cleaned up the clutter. Fabulous house though...those views are to die for. I just wish the space wasn't so schizophrenic.

Nicely said, PI. I love looking at both the large and small homes.

Really great architecture, very cluttered house. While it is sort of shocking, but maybe cool, that they weren't more persnickety about having some of the more cluttered rooms pictorialized, I get where they are coming from. That's how people really live. Particularly in the south, folks do have a more cluttery, jumbled, homespun aesthetic which makes them feel cozy and good. You know, the women putter and cook, and the men hunt and fish. Its okay. They're living their dream and it's adorable. But personallly, living with cluttered spaces like that makes my skin itch. I'm always seeking the magazine-spread vibe in my own home. Which is unrealistic as we have five kids! So I'm constantly frustrated. These guys are not frustrated; they're relaxed and happy. It feels like real life rather than a magazine.

I feel that some of the complaints about this post are really due to the fact that there are 70 photos, a bit of an inundation. A selection of 20-25, and everybody would have been very happy, sometimes even ecstatic.

'the women putter and cook, and the men hunt and fish.' They're not an Amazonian tribe.

Did you know it's also customary in the south for the women to fill hog bladders with river water as an offering to the rain gods and that men must kill seven (a sacred number in the south) vultures and suspend their brains from the ceiling above the marital bed if they wish to conceive of a boy. If they are successful they proceed to fill rooms with clutter as an offering to Naabon, the fertility goddess.

:)

The views are great, and the pool is wonderful too. But with nearly 4000 sq ft, couldn't it be tidier? Was that an ice chest in one of the pics?

I agree with Pi .... inspiration can come from anywhere. Even in a large house, you can see a corner, a section or a vignette that appeals to you and you may want to replicate it your own house/apartment.

'That's how people really live. Particularly in the south, folks do have a more cluttery, jumbled, homespun aesthetic which makes them feel cozy and good. You know, the women putter and cook, and the men hunt and fish.' - Good lord VGCLARK.....not everyone in the south lives like it's 1880. We have homes and jobs and busy lives just like you.

This is a lovely home that could easily accomodate someone with a very modern aesthetic or someone who likes a more traditional or southwestern approach. The spaces are great. There's incredible light. I love the use of natural materials. What a fabulous view too!

@Ruthtooth, hilarious!

Really pretty house. The pool is my favorite. Well, that and all the windows.

My problem with this tour is that there were too many photos. It needed to be edited better. It was just too much. I groaned when I clicked "show thumbnails" and there were so many photos, and sure enough, many were completely unneccesary.

This house is beautiful. I love the eclectic decoration, the artwork and pool. I want to live there. Thanks for sharing.

There are way too many different designs of rugs in one room covering up the beautiful concrete flooring. BTW, some rugs look as though they need a vacuum as look like they have hair balls and junk on them.

@PI: I wasn't necessarily opining on what AT's mission statement should say (that's up to the folks that run the site), but rather was just stating what it's mission statement, beliefs, and goal actually are (again, if you click on the "About Us" link, all of that info is there). AT is free to make its mission, beliefs and goal whatever it wants them to be. I'm just pointing out that I think many of the disgruntled comments of the type seen in this post stem from the apparent dissonance between the site's mission, beliefs, and goal as its founder articulates them, and the practice of featuring a lot of large homes.

I would also never argue that AT should be exclusionary. In fact I said that the occasional large house tour is great for eye candy and design inspiration (I have a one or two of the larger tours bookmarked myself!) Personally, I like a good mix with perhaps a bit more focus on smaller spaces, since I've lived in small, rented spaces for almost my whole life. I was drawn to AT because it was one of the first resources that I became aware of that had a smaller space focus. It's what made AT stand out to me as different from most of the shelter mags/blogs in existence when I started reading AT some 6+ years ago. Now I know of other sources of small space inspiration, so it's not so terribly important to get it from AT. But I still do have some trouble understanding how featuring a home as large as this one with just two occupants is consistent with the site's own articulated goal of living well with a reduced reliance on stuff (a goal that happens to resonate with me personally).

Anyways, hope that clarifies my position!

I think they need more space, because there is a lot jumbled stuff on every surface. What was in that square glass container, leftovers? In ten years I see this as an episode of hoarders. But it's all very pretty jumble nonetheless.

People are often so mean on this site. Why not make a constructive critique if you're going to be critical?

Did everyone miss the part about this house starting as a small space and being changed to a large space?

lots of hostility here folks.

I love the mix of rustic/modern elements. Beautiful house and a gorgeous setting.

The jumbled, cluttered photos: I assumed this to be a "before/during" to show contrast. just as a frame of reference.

Regarding the big/little arguments: I like to see large houses on occasion..many of the ideas can easily be incorporated into a small place.

Ya'll need to lighten up

Love this house tour! So light and airy, and bohemian, rustic, Texas style. I love the rugs, I love all of the bright colors balanced with white and wood tones. I would love to live there.

I don't remember people on AT being so RUDE when I first started reading it years ago. This place is not dirty, cluttered or anything like that, its lived in, and THAT is what AT is about as I remember. Jealous much?? Funny how the Treehouse Tour was much mote cluttered, btw, I loved it, but it got rave reviews, but it was much, much smaller......hmmm

Love this tour!! Just because it is 3800 sq. ft. Does not mean you can't incorporate some of their designs into a small house or apartment. The layering of the rugs is amazing -could do that anywhere!! The juxtaposition of the styles is amazing and makes the space warm and comfy!

While the house is lovely, and the furnishings are lovely, the interior design leaves much to be desired. I feel as though this home is owned by people who know what they like, but don't know how to put it together. Two examples are the undersized dining table in the large dining space, and the outdoor sofa pushed flush against the glass wall.

I understand that it can be refreshing to see a home that looks "lived in," but I was disappointed in this case. Leaving rolls of paper towels supine on the kitchen counter in preparation for a photographic tour of one's home leaves an impression that is contrary to the quality of the structure and furnishings.

Ha!... funny to see the comments... yes, we had just had a party at our house. Yes, the place was trashed! ;) ...

People with inferiority complex should refrain from commenting. Criticism only interesting if other people can learn from it, just saying it needs vacuuming...I think they know that already if they just had a party.
Boring to rip places apart because it is not your style or size or your day.