Karen Eubank
Karen is a senior columnist at Candy’s Media and has been writing stories since she could hold a crayon. She is a globe-trotting, history-loving eternal optimist who would find it impossible to live well without dogs, Tex-Mex, and dark chocolate. She covers luxury properties and historic preservation for Candys Dirt.
This European soft contemporary in Highland Park home is important for a few reasons. Of course, the home by Chad Dorsey Design surpasses all expectations in terms of beauty, clever use of space, gorgeous materials, and quality construction by More Design + Build, but there is something more important than that. It’s an example of…
When it comes to designing your home, what do you think about first? It’s not usually hiring a professional interior designer. No, instead, you immediately think about that endless list of decisions that must be made. What room do you start with? Who do you need to hire? What colors work in each space? How…
It’s been a bad year for preserving historic homes in Dallas. We are losing homes built by significant architects at an alarming rate. Recently, there was quite a social media outcry over the demise of a 1932 Clifford D. Hutsell on Lakewood Blvd. The comments on various posts made me realize that the majority of…
Scrolling through the newly listed homes on Friday, I was elated to see luxury and history intersect in an original 1930 Dines & Kraft Spanish Eclectic two-story home on Lakewood Blvd. It’s beautifully preserved, updated, and expanded, and it gives us a much-needed dose of hope. We need that hope right now because, just down…
When Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper features a Colleyville English country manor house, it’s a reminder that Texas and England have had a longstanding love affair. The English are enamored of our cowboy culture, wide open spaces, and outgoing nature. We are in awe of royalty, the accent, and, of course, the English country manor house.…
