Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
Sarah Ivey at AMSPictures tells me they are looking for really weird homes. Here’s what she wrote: “We are producing a new series for HGTV called, “Home Strange Home.” You may have seen the pilot late last year on the network. We are looking for really strange, odd homes. They can be strange in design,…
I am not seeing as many of these as I used to, but a Keeping Room is pretty standard in any home of 8,000 square feet or larger. The “keeping room” originated in colonial times, before homes were ginormous, or rather, when only a select few had ginormous homes, usually called castles. It was a multi-use room attached to the kitchen or open to it, complete with a fireplace for warmth. Remember, kitchens used to be the place where people cooked, unlike my house. So creating an extra little sitting area is really an old-time concept that adds depth, warmth and activity to modern kitchens.
The stunning Preston Hollow home of our former Mayor and brief senatorial candidate, Tom Leppert, and his wife, Laura, hits the market in about one minute. Of course I knew about this yesterday — actually, last week — when I was in Maine eating way too much lobster but Amy Curry got a quick post up while…
`I LOVE Kelli and Gerald Ford’s Turkish Bath in the basement over there on Turtle Creek. But on Beverly, you can get 6550 feet with everything, and I do mean everything PLUS wine in the basement for way less than the cost of a tree-house on Turtle Creek: $2,950,000. This circa 1929 bambino was completely, lavishly…
I am very curious as to why designer Kelli Ford, the gorgeous Dallas, Texas-based designer wife of banker billionaire Gerald Ford, who lives over there at 6601 Turtle Creek in the Honeypot of Highland Park, would be all so eager to showcase what lurks below the Ford household: an orgasmic 25,000-square-foot Turkish bath with a 12-person…
