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.
Robert Bruno’s Steel House is not a mere house. It’s a 110-ton, three-level sculpture constructed of Corten scrap steel curved to fit Bruno’s fanciful imagination. It’s perched above Yellow House Canyon in the Ransom Canyon community east of Lubbock. And now you can call it home. The 2,200-square-foot artistic statement has been the backdrop for…
We saw this coming, but it still hurts the heart of every preservationist in Dallas. Exchange Park is being demolished as I write this. UT Southwestern owns the site, and they decided to raze it rather than opt for historic tax incentives that could be used to rehabilitate the area. UTSW is building a state-of-the-art,…
This is Frank’s house. Frank is an award-winning Wirehaired Pointing Griffon. Frank is frankly fabulous. He lives in this beautiful Briarwood home with his owner, independent film producer Katherine Harper, and his little fur brother Carl. Katherine, Frank, and Carl are packing up the bones, beds, and biscuits and heading to Preston Hollow for a…
When this sweet Junius Heights Craftsman bungalow hit our inbox, we stopped everything and gawked. How often do you find a flawlessly renovated historic bungalow with a pool? Rarely. In 1985, Karl and Jana Braddick bought a large two-story historic home on Junius. The neighborhood was full of much smaller Craftsman bungalows serving as rental…
We all tend to get mentally stuck when it comes to the Ranch home. Our go-to is the themed style of the Mad Men era, when, in fact, the Ranch-style home hit the height of its popularity in the 1960s. By the latter part of the decade, there was a distinct movement away from the…
