Ashley’s was hired to remodel the house’s significant areas. It was a typical ’70s home with wood paneling, large upper cabinets and colors that were popular when it was built. “It was cool that they trusted us with the house. This was the house where everyone always gathered for the holidays and events,” Lisa said.

The home features a soft palette of creams, grays and whites and an energetic and contemporary decor that incorporates wooden beams and warm furnishings to frame the vista of the outdoors. Built into the side of a hill, you enter on the second floor of the home where windows offer astonishing views of the treetops and foliage beyond.

The house has a long history that began after the Civil War. Mr. W.H. North, who migrated from the north to the Red River Valley during Reconstruction, originally built it in the 1880s. He purchased 4,000 acres of prime cotton land in the depressed economy and built the house on a bluff overlooking the Red River.