Joanna England
Joanna England is the former long-time executive editor and a founding editor at CandysDirt.com.
There are some homes that are better shown off by twilight, and this is definitely one of them. And with Daylight Saving Time ending this weekend, expect to see more twilight shots in MLS. We don’t mind, though, as long as they look like this stunning two-story Craftsman in the heart of Winnetka Heights. With…
When Jenn Dawkins first met her would-be husband, Ken, he already owned a home — two homes, if you want to get technical — in Vickery Place. It was a duplex on the neighborhood’s eponymous street, and it wasn’t without its charms. It just wasn’t really functional as a single-family home. Ken had purchased the…
If you follow television and radio chefs and cooking teachers, you’re likely to be familiar with Christy Rost, who hosted the Texas-based television cooking and lifestyle show Just Like Home for 12 years, and a PBS special in 2009 that has become a Thanksgiving tradition, re-airing nationally every November since. Rost and her husband, Randy, maintain a home in…
An architecturally correct, head-to-toe restoration one block from Strait Lane? Check. Smooth transitional contemporary design? Check. Proximity to The Hockaday School? Check. A sweeping ground-floor floor plan in a park-like setting with a huge Zen master bedroom in a different zone of the house from the kids’ separate wing? Got it. Add in a greenbelt,…
