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.
Richardson’s Como Motel has been a midcentury fixture for decades. The iconic sign beckoning weary travelers off of North Central Expressway has changed through the years, but it’s still so cool you can’t miss it. That is until it all gets torn down. That seems to be the fate of yet another piece of our…
For generations, French-inspired architecture has dominated the residential luxury market. We can always attribute that to timeless aesthetics, cultural influence, and historical legacy, but the bottom line is these homes are quite simply the fairy tale castles of our childhood. It’s synonymous with luxury. No other style of architecture has that quality. It can be…
What do you know about the Municipal Archives? I bet it’s not much, so let’s change that. Our city archives are located at Dallas City Hall. They include every imaginable departmental record in a variety of forms and formats, including ledgers, manuscripts and typescripts, maps, photographs, microforms, and printed materials. It’s a gold mine of information…
What’s the first thing you do when moving to the Dallas-Fort Worth area? You start to research neighborhoods. If you’re digging, you may come across a great online review like this one on the Avignon Windhaven neighborhood. Avignon is a nice, quiet neighborhood in the far northwest area of Plano. The HOA for this neighborhood…
I didn’t think this Modern Mediterranean could get any better. I was wrong. When I wrote about this home in 2017, I thought it was one of the prettiest I’d seen in years. It was fresh on the market and did not linger very long because the dream team of Danes Custom Homes, architect Don Caperton…
