Fort Worth Friday: a Mira Vista Modern Marvel by Norman Ward

by Eric Prokesh

One of the reasons Fort Worth’s eye-popping 50% growth in population in the last 20 years has been absorbed with relative ease, unnoticed by many, is the large number of developments built on newly available land. Such is the community of Mira Vista – the result of a significant land purchase in 1985 of 625 acres of ranch land. Built around a challenging Tom Weiskopf golf course on a high bluff, the development affords stunning views to the west, as its name suggests.

The area is frankly better known for its impressive McMansions. So this Mira Vista marvel, designed by award winning architect Norman Ward, at 6628 Sahalee, elegantly expresses itself in intelligent and harmonious modern vocabulary. The 4100 square foot, four bedroom, four and 1/2 bath house is a disciplined composition of stucco, glass and pegged Spanish cedar. The airy, open, double height main room is well sighted , designed, with its astute fenestration, to exploit the breathtaking panorama to the westward vistas to Lake Benbrook beneath the terraced pool. The home sits on one-half an acre.

The floor plan is comfortably functional for any age or lifestyle with a downstairs master bedroom and guest bedroom and two additional spacious bedrooms with its own assigned bathroom on each floor and dual floor private living spaces. It is listed with Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Real Estate’s John Zimmerman, for a mere $1,299,000.

Breathtaking.

Eric Prokesh is an interior designer whose work has appeared on HGTV, in books and publications including DHome, Southern Accents, House Beautiful, and House and Garden. In January 2005, HG named Eric one of the 50 tastemakers in America and DHome has included him as one of Dallas’ Best Designers for 10 years. Having lived most of his life in Dallas, he now calls Fort Worth home and is one of our experts on beautiful Fort Worth Dirt.