My House: She custom made more than 1,000 kitchen tiles for her Austin’s renovation

When Amanda Rivera was the first time in the 1930s Spanish Mediterranean-style house that would become her family home, she was terrible. “Java fell on me all the time we visited him,” she reminds her first visit to her and wife Luke to the house, in the neighborhood Travis Heights. “Many original details are preserved, such as beautiful vaulted ceilings, arched doors and latches at the door.”