Elaine Raffel
Elaine Raffel left the corporate world to become a freelance creative focused on real estate and design in Dallas.
George Strait—aka “The King of Country”—just relisted his San Antonio estate at a whopping discount. The nearly 8,000-square-foot Hill Country hacienda can be yours for $6.9 million—a 31 percent reduction from its original listing price of $10 million.
To say that luxury real estate agents are having a banner year would be a colossal understatement. Higher-income buyers are still buying and selling homes at record pace.
the newly-listed 1428 N. Genesee Avenue—aka the house where tormented teen Nancy Thompson lived in the 1984 classic “ A Nightmare on Elm Street.”
One of the standouts of this year’s Kips Bay Decorator Show House was Gil Melott’s multifaceted kitchen. From the totally on-trend palette (two expertly-paired shades of Benjamin Moore green) to cutting-edge, tech-savvy appliances, the thoughtfully-designed space checks all the boxes. Smart. Stylish. Functional. And especially important in post-pandemic design, immensely livable.
“Everyone should collect something,” says John Phifer Marrs. It’s educational—not to mention, fun. He should know. The Dallas-based interior designer has made a specialty helping clients organize and display their collections.
