You won’t find windows or fences here, just a bold idea for urban privacy. designed by Specut NovakStealth House converts a remaining lot into a hidden retreat in steel, silence and sunlight courtyard. It has a study in each inch purpose, stability and calm of 1,100 square feet.
The house began as an ideological project, which is a “paper architecture” experiment, which uses unbuildable urban land. But when the architect Scott Spect found a small, moving lot in Austin, Texas, he felt that he could turn the concept into a real house.
Mask: rusty steel and radical secrecy
From the road, or more accurately, the street, the house looks more like an art installation than a residence. Its corrugated experienced steel is external striking: raw, rust-tond and windowless. But this is not just a design option. This is a strategy of privacy.
Without windows or fences, the house redefines boundaries. There is no need for blinds or hedges. Steel cladding creates a clean circumference that is both architect and philosopher, a modern fort that embraces minimalism by inviting curiosity.
Entry + transition: step in peace
The entrance, tuck with the pedestrian street, does not reveal much from the outside. But inside the steps hoist the story. You move from opaque shell to unexpected openness. In
The first glimpse is filtered sunlight through trees, reflecting glass from floor to roof. You realize that the house does not require external view. It makes its own.
Angan: House out
The courtyard is the heart of the house, the greenery, the daylight and the fresh air pulls into the core. Depending on the ancient in-in-earning layout, it quietly controls the environment of the house, from the brightness to the air from the air.
The center has a young olive tree, lucky to grow in a wide canopy. It colors the courtyard, softens the sound, and creates a living focal point.
Every major place in the secret house faces the courtyard through the glass from the floor to the roof. These transparent walls blur the line between the inside and the outside.
Living Room: compact space, expander feel
Despite its modest shape, the living room seems huge and composed. Clean lines, warm wood cabinet, and focus on a restrained color palette texture and form. A deep white sectional and rugs add comfort and personality, while sculpture accents and curate details bring place for life without disorder.
Kitchen + food: minimal, efficient, hot
The kitchen is integrated into greasy and depth architecture. The wood wraps around the cabinet space, hides the equipment and creates a warm, spontaneous visual flow. The backplash is rolled with muted green tiles, which is a soft contrast for wood and resonates home connections for nature. A crisp white island anchors the room and is completed with an olive-tond stool.
An intimate, wood -wrapped alkov, tucking out of the kitchen, has an underlying food nook that feels both comfortable and sewn. Velvet-bench seats and floating wood tables offer a cool place for food, conversation, or work, in which a pendant globe performs a soft shine overhead casting.
Bedroom: Compact Relax with Green Connection
The bedroom looks like a private retreat, which is wrapped in warm texture and natural light. A full height glass wall opens in the courtyard, which keeps the space calm and solitude and brings it to the greenery and soft daylight. Thoughtful details such as grascloth wallpaper and built-in shelving add cool refinement.
Bathroom: rich physicality and luxury
The bathroom balances the physicality rich with openness and light. A wooden double vanity with a matte black fixtures anchors the space, paired with full-heated mirrors and globe lights that reflect natural light. The dark mosaic tile has views of a small private courtyard in a line shower, where plants and corrugated metals form a cool, spa -like background. It is a place that feels both grounded and quietly fantastic.
Here are architectural paintings that direct the design.
Stealth House feels cool with design, a cool retreat of intent shape. More than a home, it is a model for urban life that gives importance to the privacy, stability and thoughtful use of space.
