refined refuge

After buying their 1940s Tudor-style home two years ago, Laura and Steve gave young interior designer Julio Quiñones only one directive. “They wanted me to create a comfortable, traditional family home,” says Quiñones, who left another design firm to start his own business, with Laura and Steve as his first clients.

A limestone portico with finials and quoins complements the intricate masonry of the house in Dallas’s Preston Hollow.