The weekend for the 2010 AIA Austin Fall Homes tour was completely packed. Over 5,000 tickets were sold and the crowds loved Nick Deaver's house. Originally built in 1968, Matt Risinger's team gutted this house down to the studs and updated the inside while keeping the exterior. The house was full of low ceilings and darkness, an issue many Austin homes built in the late 60's and early 70's had. This is a wonderful example of what can be done to a dated and tired floor plan with demolishing the house. The exterior shell of the house and the roofline was able to remain intact as the house was originally built. There was once a staircase on the exterior of the house that was brought in and now leads to studio space in the basement. The house had a truss roof, which mean all its interior walls were not load bearing. To open the house, Deaver did not need to move the walls on the outside, but instead changed the way the windows function. He altered the location of the kitchen, which is ow a wide-open space. The style of the master bedroom did not change significantly," but a huge difference was made by connecting two exterior doors connect to the outside. The master bathroom is full of natural light thanks to two skylights. Watch this video to get the complete tour of the house.