Case study 02 · The H2O Group

Santa Clara Drive

A new Mediterranean-style home in Dallas, rendered inside and out while it was still bare drywall and concrete.

The house had walls, windows and a roof. The finishes lived on design boards and drawings, one room at a time. My job was to put the two together, so the whole house could be seen finished.

The brief

Show the house the way it would look finished, outside and in, from the street to the pool deck.

What I made

49 photoreal views over three deliveries: the front and the landscaping, every main room, the verandas, the outdoor kitchen and the pool deck. Each one built from the plans, the room's design board and photos of the site.

How it was used

Showing the finished house before construction was complete.

Client: The H2O Group (H2O Capital Investments), Frisco, Texas
Worked with: Jen Nguyen Waters
Interior design: Design Shop Home & Interiors
Location: Dallas, Texas
Delivered: 49 views, inside and out, over three deliveries
Year: 2026

Selected views

The house, room by room.

Images here are compressed so the page loads quickly. Final stills are delivered in 4K, sharp enough for print and large screens.

Render: living room, Santa Clara Drive — Living room

Render: kitchen, Santa Clara Drive — Kitchen

Render: study, Santa Clara Drive — Study

Render: primary bath, tub and shower, Santa Clara Drive — Primary bath, tub and shower

Render: foyer, Santa Clara Drive — Foyer

Render: game room, Santa Clara Drive — Game room

Render: covered veranda, Santa Clara Drive — Covered veranda

All 49 views

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Street view
Front facade
Front, from the right
Front, from the left
Front entry
Garage doors
Aerial view
Foyer
Living room
Living room, toward the fireplace
Dining room
Kitchen
Kitchen island
Chef's kitchen
Chef's kitchen and pantry
Pantry
Bar
Bar seating
Study
Powder bath
Pool bath
Laundry and utility
Guest bedroom
Guest bath
Primary suite
Primary suite sitting area
Primary bath
Primary bath, tub and shower
Primary bath vanity
Primary closet
Stairs
Game room
Game room, billiards
Upstairs bar
Gym
Bedroom 3
Bedroom 4
Bedroom 5
Bathroom 3
Bathroom 4
Bathroom 5
Guest closet
Upstairs powder
Upstairs laundry
Garage
Covered veranda
Outdoor fireplace and kitchen
Pool deck
Upstairs covered deck

How it came together

Design boards, drawings
and a bare site.

Every room arrived as a plan, an elevation and a design board. Many came with a photo of the room as it actually stood. Where the photo and the drawings disagreed, the photo won.

Enlarged plan of the primary bath — **Plans**Layout, fixture positions and dimensions for each room.

Elevation drawing of the primary bath tub wall — **Elevations**Heights, tile layout, where the tub, glass and lights sit.

Design board for the primary bath: brass fixtures, marble, cabinetry and tile — **Design boards**Every finish, fixture and light chosen for the room.

Site photo of the outdoor fireplace and kitchen during construction — **Site photos**The rooms as they really stood: proportions, openings, light.

Design boards by Design Shop Home & Interiors.

From the design board to the room.

Each board set the room's finishes. In the primary bath: smokewood shaker cabinets, Calacatta Viola counters and floor tile in a Versailles pattern, brushed-gold fixtures, alabaster sconces. At the bar: the stained cabinets, the marble, the leather stools and the gold faucet.

Primary bath design boardPrimary bath, rendered

Bar design boardBar, rendered

Where the drawings stopped, I drew my own.

For the trickier rooms I made a simple camera drawing first, worked out from the plan and the site photo: where the camera stands, what it sees, where each beam, heater and door has to land. Only then the render.