House Tour | Step Inside Our Mediterranean-Style Home in Austin

Having lived in our Mediterranean-style home in Austin for over a decade, I’ve shared much of our design process through the years. And yet, I’ve never shared a complete tour of the entire house, with the room-by-room details all in one place. So, along with the launch of my Sourcebook (below!) that includes links to everything in our house, I couldn’t be more excited to share the official Camille Styles Home Tour.

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[Music]
hey there Welcome to our Mediterranean style home  
here in Austin Texas come on 
in and let me show you [Music]
around Welcome to our living room we wanted 
our home to feel like this welcoming Haven  
from the moment the guests walk in the house 
I want people to feel like they can just get  
cozy and kick off their shoes and stay a while 
before we kick off the entire home tour let’s  
do a little background on the house so my husband 
Adam actually discovered this property while we  
were dating so that was like 16 years ago there 
was an old 1950s house on the lot that was in  
pretty bad shape and the lot itself was totally 
overgrown the place where our backyard is now was  
actually completely wooded and you couldn’t even 
see any of the downtown or lake views at all but  
we knew this property had so much potential so 
we spent the first year of our marriage working  
with our architect and then we ended up building 
our house from the ground up at the time I had  
never done a design project at this scale before 
and honestly I had no clue what I was doing so I  
feel lucky that we ended up with a final result 
that I still love so much now that we’ve been  
in the house for 13 years there are definitely 
some things that I’d love to change and update  
but we kind of look at our house as this ongoing 
project it’s never fully done and every year we  
try to tackle one or two things it’s kind of like 
the house just keeps evolving right along with us
this room is all about the natural light my 
favorite thing about the space is definitely  
these big steel doors that open up to the outside 
and just create this beautiful indoor outdoor flow  
my mood is very influenced by the sunshine and 
the weather so I love to be able to be in the  
space and just let the sunshine in it’s very good 
for my mental health I often get asked what style  
our house is and honestly I can’t point to just 
one particular design style but I do often use  
the words warm minimalism when I’m describing 
our home I’m always looking for this element  
of Simplicity and I want every space to feel 
really warm and comfortable we do have a lot  
of Mediterranean influence in our design Adam 
and I went to Italy on our honeymoon so while  
we were designing our house we were really 
inspired by the architecture and the outdoor  
spaces where we spent time in cpri we came home 
from our honeymoon and began our design process  
and we really wanted to incorporate materials 
like terracotta and plaster walls as well as  
so many of the plants that we chose for our 
Landscaping like olive trees and Jasmine one  
of the main questions that I get about our house 
is what we used on the walls and a few years back  
I decided that I wanted to plaster our home I 
am obsessed with plaster and lime wash walls I  
just love that like character and patina that 
they give a space But I wanted something that  
would be very matte and textural so I found 
this material called American clay it’s an  
Earth plaster that’s made in New Mexico it’s 
non-toxic it’s eco-friendly and it gives that  
like very matte and textural feel it definitely 
was one of the best decisions that we made about  
the house it’s not a small project it took a crew 
a couple weeks to come in and plaster the whole  
house top to bottom but I definitely think it 
was worth it this painting above our fireplace  
is probably my favorite piece of art in the house 
it was painted by my husband’s brother Neil before  
he passed away and it is a treasure to us it 
hung above our bed for many years but recently  
we swapped it into the living room and I love how 
it adds texture and interest above the fireplace  
while still staying in this neutral soothing 
color palette that goes with the rest of the
room moving on to the heart of our home the 
kitchen is where so many of the things that  
I love to do happens from developing all 
the recipes for our site to Preparing our  
meals together as a family and whenever we have 
dinner parties everyone Gathers was around this  
big kitchen island and we set out all the wine 
and snacks and it’s just such a fun like place  
for everyone to congregate together I’ll be 
honest this kitchen has some design challenges  
mainly the lack of natural light I have explored 
every possible way to add a skylight or a window  
in here but the way the house is configured 
there’s just not a way to do it I have to  
get creative with colors and styling to lighten 
up this space as much as possible when we built  
the house we added a stainless steel vent hood 
that I really fell out of love with as my style  
evolved a few years ago we did a mini kitchen 
update and replaced it with a custom plaster  
Hood surround and it made the biggest difference 
the hood has a hidden ventilation system that’s  
mounted to the inside of the surround and then we 
plastered over it in our American clay plaster we  
also replaced our old countertops with this 
bright white Caesar Stone and the cloud burst  
concrete finish I love love love Caesar Stone 
and I have used it in multiple design projects  
for this we added a waterfall Edge to the 
countertop and made a continuous sink all  
out of the same Caesar Stone to just make it feel 
really seamless and clean our kitchen cabinets and  
shelves are the same stained White Oak that 
we’ve had since we moved into the house and  
I’ll be honest this is definitely something that 
I would love to change about our kitchen I think  
that adding unstained lighter Oak Cabinetry 
would really just lighten up the whole space  
but we’ve gotten a bid for what it would cost to 
replace all of the cabinets or even just refinish  
them and it’s so expensive so it’s going to 
have to wait until I have a new kitchen Rena
budget the bedroom really is My Sanctuary our 
lives are so full from work to kids activities and  
this room is really where the hustle stops and we 
can just relax and really get recharged I try to  
make it as spa-like and Zen as possible this cozy 
reading corner is one of my favorite spots in the  
whole house I love to drink my coffee here in the 
morning and in the evening I’ll often curl up here  
with a book or with my tea and just kind of like 
wind down for the evening I searched for years for  
a lowprofile wood bed with built-in nightstands 
but I could never find one that was exactly what  
I was looking for we decided to design the exact 
bed of our dreams and then have it built by some  
local Carpenters it actually didn’t end up being 
more expensive than many of the beds that I’d been  
looking online here was my inspiration and the 
shop drawing that my designer friend Claire made  
for our Carpenters we used an unstained White 
Oak for a matte neutral finish and then had two  
sconces hardwired into each side of the bed the 
switches are actually located into the side of the  
nightstand so they’d be invisible when you’re 
looking at the bed then I have an electrical  
outlet inside each drawer so I can charge my phone 
in the drawer every night while I sleep it’s so  
convenient the art above the bed is actually a 
photo took on my iPhone when we were in [Music]
Italy I like to make a few minutes of every day 
feel like my spa time and my bathroom really is  
the place where all my self-care happens I take 
a bath in here almost every single night it is my  
favorite way to recharge and I love that we have 
this big picture window with the shade that I can  
raise to let tons of natural light in the space 
although I do close it when it’s time for my bath
this media room has been so many different things 
through the years when we first moved in we made  
it our home gym which I’m going to try to find 
an old photo of it so embarrassing we literally  
had these shelves full of like bottled waters 
and hand towels just like a hotel and then we  
had an elliptical it was a Vibe and then when our 
kids were born we turned it into their playroom  
which was great to have like a dedicated area for 
that and now that our kids are older we use it as  
our like family hangout space we play video games 
and watch movies together as a family so it’s ever  
evolving but it’s super casual and just super 
cozy this room is so simple and everything in  
it was super affordable we did a CB2 couch 
and then our rugs are from Target honestly  
when it comes to kids spaces I like to stick with 
just a really simple color palette and vibe that  
goes with the rest of the house but I don’t want 
anything that’s precious because let’s be honest  
it’s going to get destroyed from the video game 
playing the sleepovers and the snacking that will  
happen in this [Music] room Welcome to our team 
Studio space as you guys know we shoot a ton of  
recipe content and we really needed a space with 
more natural light than our kitchen for shooting  
recipes and products for kasuma so we had the 
idea to transform our guest bed bedroom into a  
studio kitchen we shared the entire before and 
after process on the site so definitely check  
that out we’ll Link in the description because we 
did it on a major budget and I think it came out  
pretty good for the countertop in here we used 
sets of drawers and a laminate countertop that I  
actually found at Ikea then I found a marble 
shelf on clearance and I ordered some steel  
brackets from Etsy to mount them this was a little 
challenging and I’ll be honest the end result is  
not perfect but for our purposes it gets the job 
done and it was a lot cheaper than the alternative  
the rest of the Space is really just all about 
styling a woven light fixture and movable Butcher  
Block Island that I found from makers on Etsy and 
then of course lots of Casa Zuma pieces displayed  
on the open shelves that just make it a perfect 
studio and creative space for our team to work
in this is our family office although usually 
Adam is the one who ends up working in here I  
tend to work in the little Al off the kitchen but 
this tends to become The Dumping Ground honestly  
for a lot of our kasuma samples and prototypes so 
with the decor I try to keep it pretty minimal and  
simple for me a clear space equals a clear mind 
so when it comes to my workspace I like things  
to feel clean I literally cannot think straight 
if there’s plotter okay let’s head upstairs and  
I’ll show you the kids’ [Music] rooms this Loft 
area has been several different things through  
the years it’s started as a TV room when we first 
moved in and then when we had kids it became their  
playroom and now it’s what I call my meditation 
space essentially it’s just this really cozy  
kind of like cocoon area where I can do my video 
workouts or people can just come and kind of chill  
it’s a very like simple low stimuli environment 
I don’t think I’ve shown any photos of our kids’  
room since they were nurseries so I am definitely 
of the mindset that kids should be able to freely  
Express themselves in their bedroom so I really 
don’t get too involved in the decor and kind of  
just let them decorate their rooms with whatever 
expresses their personality so Henry is my neat  
freak kid he’s very organized by nature and his 
room is actually pretty minimalist doesn’t have  
a lot of clutter but he definitely likes his 
collections of his Legos his Star Wars stuff  
and then he loves books he and I are reading the 
wild Ro bot right now and we love to just like  
have our bedtime reading time together it’s kind 
of our favorite way to wind down at the end of the  
night Phoebe is not quite as minimalist as her 
brother the girl loves her collections stuffed  
animals beauty products she’s got a lot of stuff 
in here one thing I love about the kids’ rooms are  
these big open Windows it just kind of makes them 
feel like they’re tucked away in a treehouse and  
lets in tons of natural light all right let’s 
take it outside our backyard is actually my  
favorite part of the entire house it’s taken us 
12 years to get it to this point we have worked  
on this space so much over the last several years 
and now we spend tons of time out here every day  
our backyard is divided into two areas we have 
this upper area that’s kind of our outdoor lounge  
area and then we have the lower level which is 
our larger Gardens up here we hang out all the  
time it connects directly to our living room 
so I like to think of it as just this kind of  
extension of the rest of the house true outdoor 
living space we sit around the coffee table all  
the time and have dinner as a family and often 
times when we are entertaining all of our friends  
come out here and hang out and then on this level 
we also have our pool which we use all the time  
my favorite thing about our pool is actually the 
color it’s this like deep blue that really reminds  
me of the Mediterranean our pool area is on the 
same level as our house so this was the first  
phase of our back yard project it’s pretty crazy 
when we bought this house we could barely see any  
downtown Skyline at all just a couple buildings 
but Austin has exploded so much that we now have  
this full-blown downtown Skyline View it’s so 
beautiful especially at night since our home sits  
up on a high Hillside our foundation is built on a 
30ft retaining wall we went with an infinity edge  
pool to really maximize the feeling of being like 
built into the cliff and I love that when we’re  
in the pool it feels almost like you’re suspended 
in this tree house let’s head down to the lower  
backyard which is by far the biggest design 
project we’ve ever [Music] tackled this space  
has been transformed from a dirt covered Hillside 
into a space that’s been featured all over the  
Internet including an architectural digest and 
it has taken years of work to do it Adam and  
I typically try to tackle one big project down 
here every single year and over time we just keep  
refining it into the space that we truly love one 
thing we’ve learned is we’ve continued developing  
this area of the property is the importance of 
creating a master plan that really defines the  
purpose and the use for every different area it’s 
a big space so it’s really helpful to carve out  
different areas for our backyard we carved out 
spaces for dining for a fir pit a lounge area  
and a vegetable garden that way as we’ve tackled 
each area in different phes over the years we know  
that end Vision where we’re ultimately headed 
then we can use different materials like wood  
decking or gravel or hedge borders to carve out 
each of those spaces into these sort of outdoor  
rooms we use a ton of gravel back here which 
we love because it’s super low maintenance and  
it’s used in a lot of Mediterranean spaces we’ve 
really changed the plant life here over the years  
as we’ve learned the hard way what thrives 
and what doesn’t tend to grow well in Austin  
since it tends to get really really hot here in 
the summer and it usually freezes a couple times  
in the winter it’s really important to choose 
super hearty plants that can stand up to both  
of those conditions so we use a lot of boxwoods 
Hawthorns and Cherry Laurels and then we do have  
some olive trees and lemon trees but we have to 
be so careful to cover them before a freeze so  
that they’ll actually survive the cold my raised 
garden beds are a newer addition to the backyard  
and I’ve been having so much fun learning more 
about grow gr vegetables and herbs it’s definitely  
a process and I’ve had a few fails but I’m getting 
better this spring I’m growing multiple types of  
tomatoes summer squash melons and of course 
lots of herbs and that’s the grand tour this  
house has really been such an incredible home for 
us through the years it has evolved so much and I  
feel like every different room really tells the 
story of our family it is our endless canvas for  
creativity and inspiration drop any questions you 
might have in the comments I will do my best to  
answer them and I will also link my Source book 
that has links to as many different things in our  
home as I could find thanks so much for joining 
us on this home tour and I will see you next time