A 7,000-square-foot residence located on a cattle ranch in Texas’ hill country juxtaposes its green spaces with industrial materials and modern aesthetics. “The house is truly on a ranch,” said Jack ...

• Low-pitched gable roof and deep-set eaves. • Traditional single story (raised ranch and split level have several floors). • Horizontal, long, narrow and low to the ground.

Painting a metal roof will not stop leaks. Common leaks need to be repaired properly by a professional before you can paint over them, or the problem will return and likely continue to get worse.

Cliff May fused elements of the Spanish Revival style with Modernism to produce low-slung, horizontally oriented, pitched-roof ranch houses. They took the country by storm after World War II.