Southern Home

POINT OF VIEW

It was a 1980s Sheetrock soufflé,” designer Marcus Mohon says of this home, which sits on the edge of Texas’s Lake Austin.

“But the location—right on the water—was spectacular.” The lake, which runs through the city and is a destination for boating and water sports, may have been a draw for Mohon’s clients, but the home itself left something to be

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