This unique, art-filled home was originally a second home for Don and Rebecca Minnick. Purchased 10 years ago, the couple used it as a weekend getaway for five years before moving to Wimberley full time.

Rather than buying or building a larger home, they remodeled the existing home to open up the family room, reworked the kitchen and bedroom closets and added an outdoor pavilion, designed by Wimberley architect Rick Burleson and built by Schmidt Custom Homes.

Downsizing from 4500 square feet on the bay front in Seabrook to just less than 2000 square feet was a challenge, especially with the couple's extensive, eclectic collections. The main feature of the open living and dining area is a gallery wall, conceived and executed by Designer Abby Vasek. It features 42 pieces of art ranging from anonymous thrift-store art to important paintings, assemblages and photography by local and national artists.

"Abby came up with the idea of this feature wall, which does an amazing job of creating a focal wall in the living and dining space," said Rebecca. "We never would have thought of it." Other art treatments in the home include a fine-art black-and-white photography wall including local and national photographers, some of whom are featured in accompanying photo books as well as a display of several of Don's collection of vintage cameras.

The Minnicks drastically reworked the previous outdoor space in the front of the 4-acre property, taking out a grass lawn and converting the former circle driveway into a stone pathway leading to the outdoor pavilion, complete with outdoor kitchen, large fireplace and a perfectly positioned view of the pool. Local muralist Sharon Carter painted the foundation of the home facing the pavilion to incorporate stone and animals that appear on the property.

"We were thinking about an addition on that side and didn't want to do any actual stonework," said Don Minnick. "When we saw the work that Sharon did on the concrete retaining walls along Ranch Road 12, we thought that would be a great solution."

The outdoor space, designed by Russell Simpson, features a water feature with natural stonework and quirky French doors and windows creating an outdoor "room." Natural landscaping was designed and planted by Wimberley landscape designer Tom Manes and has grown up through stone walls in the yard. Also on the property is a rustic labyrinth patterned after the labyrinth of Chartres, built by the homeowners and refined by neighbors and landscapers.

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