Perched high on a bluff overlooking wide expanses of wooded Texas Hill Country, a new home in Cordillera Ranch has taken the classic limestone Hill Country house and turned it on its head.

With walls of glass framed by thick black metal, sharp-cut limestone stacked more like bricks than a patchwork quilt and minimal, stark furnishings, the modern, 7,300-square-foot, four-bedroom home keeps it simple so that nothing interrupts the views captured in every room. And there’s not a trophy head in sight…