Updated North Dallas Traditional Ranch is Not What You’d Expect on Spring Valley Road. It’s Better!

This home is most certainly NOT what you would expect on Spring Valley Road, in the heart of North Dallas just north of LBJ Freeway, south of Beltline.

Located on the south side, 6150 Spring Valley Road is a 4080-plus-square-foot, all-on-one-floor home on a highly wooded, .39 acre lot. There are four bedrooms, four full baths, and one-half bath. There is a game room that could easily be an office, workroom, or fifth bedroom — and it’s at the opposite wing from the primary suite.

I cannot emphasize how perfect this location is. You are minutes from every store, restaurant, shop, or school you would ever need, from Parrish to Greenhill. Further, when Midtown is complete, a host of new stores and services will almost be walkable.

Do you golf? You could drive your golf cart to Northwood Country Club from here and save gas!

A word about this neighborhood, which I know well: the home abuts a beautiful, wooded cove of North Dallas with expansive homes, wooded lots, and creeks. It’s one of those amazing “sleepers” where you believe you are in the country but Preston Road is a quarter of a mile away.

Built in 1980, this home has been stunningly and carefully renovated from the raised roof to the heated floors in the primary bath. It’s an almost completely new home with not just cosmetic changes but real technological and energy-efficient sophistication. There is foam insulation at the roof (rather than the ceiling, which significantly reduces utility bills), full house gutters with guards, a full attic ducted dehumidifier, and three new 96 percent efficiency variable-speed furnaces, plus new ducting. There are also two 40-gallon mixer-system hot water heaters with a circulating pump — no waiting for hot water!

A Dream Home That Hit The Market

The owners spared no expense as they planned to make this a permanent home, says agent Shaun Walding of ReMax. Then circumstances changed, as they so often do, so they are now selling their dream house.

Walk in and the first thing you will notice are all of the windows and the light color palette everywhere. The sunlight streams in brightly from the south, meaning your backyard is always bathed in sunlight — one reason why I believe the ideal placement of a home is facing north.

You are greeted by a juxtapositioning of wood and stone, which carries into the great room.

At the same time, your line of sight is immediately drawn right to the luscious backyard with a huge (and newly re-surfaced) pool, plus yard room for kids and pets.

Inside, everything is new from the warm-hued engineered hardwoods that flow everywhere to the custom cabinetry in the kitchen. The dining room adjoins the living area and great room, meaning it could be flexible as the massive kitchen that includes an oversized island covered with Vermont Danby marble counters.

There is also a breakfast room, garden room, and a large bar. The kitchen is appliance-loaded with a snazzy gas cooktop, custom vent hood, built-in stainless steel refrigerator/freezer, double ovens, double dishwashers, and more than enough cabinetry. In other words, a gourmet kitchen that will be the focus of entertaining, inside or out.

Dry Sauna, Anyone?

The next most important room in the house is the owner’s suite, a primary bedroom of epic proportions.

The bedroom itself overlooks the pool with an exterior entrance and a built-in corner fireplace. You then lead you to the spa bathroom with — are you ready — dual sinks, oceans of counters, vessel garden tub, and a full dry steam sauna. There are also two massive walk-in closets and heated floors under all.

The opposite wing of the home hosts a large laundry room adjacent to the three-car garage and accessible from the backyard pool area. All of it is covered by a 50-year Tamko StoneCrest-Slate steel roof.

Now 6150 Spring Valley Road is listed for $1.2 million and the response has been terrific. I asked Shaun if pricing has anything to do with being on Spring Valley Road? Yes, he said: If the home was one block south it would be listed at $1.5 easy, or more because it is so loaded.