Our Home
The Cochran Oriental is a pearl of an oyster vacation home in its original mid-century wood frame bungalow style, preserved in a historic urban neighborhood of Houston, Texas. The historical home that is now The Cochran Oriental was built in the 1940s as the last of streetcar rail systems were dismantled. During this era The University of Houston became a private university and The Alley Theatre booked its first performance. The neighborhood is an area that originally consisted of homes to immigrants of Czech, German, and Italian communities which settled in the area between nineteen hundred and nineteen forty. It is now a historic community of diverse groups.
The Cochran Oriental was modernized to include two bedrooms, two full bathrooms, and an elevated porch deck that surrounds the entire home. There’s a fully modernized kitchen, a sunroom that converts to an additional bedroom, two distinct communal areas, and a wall stocked with one hundred and forty varieties of teas. Guests are able to observe the collection of teas in the main room parlor and enjoy a few of the tea selections while on their stay. The UENDURE® Tea Wall of the main parlor room includes a variety of white, green, black, herbal, and tisane teas. From Japan or Kenya, to China or India, the wall of teas is composed of global origin. Enjoy them hot or cold, there is surely a tea to intrigue the discerning palate as well as to delight the novice.
The UENDURE® Tea Wall off the main room parlor is the epicenter that radiates toward the rest of the home. With its charming décor that includes authentic artwork collected throughout The Orient, the amenity of a modern entertainment center, and a gilded rolling whisky bar; it extends to an open dining area. These communal areas for social activity allow for intimate traffic to flow effortlessly between an arched space of large windows viewing out to the deck and the gardens that are mirrored for a reflection where you may spot a monarch butterfly.
Expanding beyond the porch deck are well-groomed outdoor seating and recreational areas enchanted by a tropical landscape and a large pecan tree that attracts an occasional squirrel. The Cochran Oriental rests on ten thousand square feet of land offering an abundant lodging for groups of up to six persons traveling in living arrangements with the option of entertaining up to fifteen guests in the sense of hosting an intimate affair.