Striped wallpaper hangs horizontally for a more modern, lighthearted presentation in this 1840s Greek Revival.

Welcome to Cloud 9, our recurring series exploring what happiness really means — one person, and nine questions, at a time.

The story behind the barndominium that Abe Gonzales and Laura Soliz built in far north San Antonio begins, they concede, in a bar. Several bars, in fact. “There are a lot of interesting bars in Texas, ...