This Sprawling Preston Road Estates Tudor Shines With ‘Curb’ Appeal
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If you’re not building your new luxury home from the ground up, this week’s Highlight Home of the Week, sponsored by Dallas mortgage broker Lisa Peters, is the next best thing. This 5,070-square-foot Preston Hollow home, listed by Kent V. Frederick of Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate, was meticulously built by a Dallas builder as his own family’s home.
That means every material, every surface, every single little thing in this 2004-built home was selected with an eye for quality. That means hand-selecting the richest Saltillo tile, the most pristine river rocks for the fireplace, and the best architectural corbel brackets in the cathedral ceiling dining room. And we’re just talking about the elements the original builder-owner put in. We haven’t even covered all the updates and upgrades the present owners have lovingly put in their home.
At Home in Preston Hollow
But first, the location. The featured home at 6210 Lakehurst Ave. is located in Preston Road Estates in the coveted Preston Hollow neighborhood of North Dallas. This block of Lakehurst is near Tulane Blvd., which hits Walnut Hill Lane and Preston Road nearby.
When Preston Road Estates was planned in the ‘20s, the Dallas Development Co. sold only tracts at an acre each. This was large enough to accommodate four quarter-acre home lots that buyers could develop for profit, or keep for themselves as an epic estate. That’s why when you drive the streets of this neighborhood, you’ll find some homes on a quarter acre like this one, and others that sprawl across a full acre or more.
Also, those original tracts have something to do with the trademark lack of sidewalks and curbs in parts of Preston Hollow. Instead, you’ll find huge Oak trees and lush lawns that lend themselves to these country-like neighborhood streets.
A European-Inspired Tudor
Seeing as the neighborhood was first developed in the 20s, it’s appropriate that the original owner, Rick Case of Heritage Homes, built this home in Tudor style. Inside, it even has a few sniffs of famous architect Charles Dilbeck and his European-influenced architectural features. You’ll find rich hand-scraped hardwood floors, cedar cross-beamed ceilings, and brick surround in the family room fireplace and kitchen stove arch.
The 5,070-square-foot home is a one-and-a-half story with three bedrooms, three and one-half baths, a study, and a game room that can double for a fourth bedroom upstairs.
The kitchen features Viking appliances, a built-in refrigerator, and a center island with a breakfast bar. There’s a great pendant lamp above the island that brings a warm modernity to the home, if I may use the word modernity.
Techno Scorcery
Now let’s get to all the gadgets. The listing agent Frederick describes Lakehurst as a full-home automated living experience. What does that mean? Well, it blows my handful of Alexa devices at home out of the water.
The entire home is outfitted with a Lifebreath ventilation system that introduces fresh air from outside and expulses stale inside air, a process that is supposed to keep your home warm in the winter and cool in the summer with some kind of aluminum heat core wizardry.
Okay, that’s the air. Now let’s go to light. The home has automated shades that’s helpful for bedrooms, while the Lutron Homeworks controls all the lights and can be scheduled with different programs. Set a schedule to turn down the living area lights at 8 p.m. for a peaceful night on the couch, or turn on all the lights when your teenage daughter walks in the door so there’s no doubt she knows you know she was a little late for curfew.
Then there’s the Tony Stark-like “Jarvis” system (it’s a comic book movie thing for the uninitiated) called the Savant full home automation. It can control the lighting, entertainment systems, HVAC, shades, security system, security cameras, garage doors, and Sonos audio controls from your mobile device.
All this runs on AT&T Fiber internet with 1 gig speed and Cat 5 wiring. (It’s a shirtless “I am Yiogos” commercial thing.) This home is nerd legit and I mean that in a good way.
Finally, the home has a gorgeous backyard that features a flagstone-covered patio with an outdoor grilling station and fireplace. The pool and spa feature a step-down water feature and tanning ledge. Here, the current owners even replaced, combined, and upgraded the pool equipment that was previously separated.
I point out allll these details to say the original builder-owner built a great house that owes its inspiration to the 1920s and the current owners thrust it into the mid-’20s. The 2020s and beyond.
Kent V. Frederick of Dave Perry-Miller InTown has listed 6210 Lakehurst Ave. for $2.85 million.
This listing is sponsored by Dallas mortgage broker Lisa Peters at Cardinal Financial. Get started on your home loan for 6210 Lakehurst Ave. by reaching out to her at [email protected].
