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 gorgeous Kessler Park Old English Tudor was built for a king. Although not royalty, this king made a real difference in the lives of Dallas workers during the Great Depression. Louis Carlisle Kimple was considered to be the king of wax paper. You know the stuff. Years ago, cake tins were lined with it,…
Marketing a home is similar to creating a musical composition. To be successful in either, you must hit all the right notes. The three critical elements in composing music are rhythm, melody, and harmony. Marketing a home requires three critical elements as well. To resonate with buyers today, a house must be updated to current…
Dallas has had a lot of losses in historic preservation. The Dr Pepper building on Mockingbird, P.C Cobb Stadium, Little Mexico, and the massacre on Main Street in 2015, when some of the oldest buildings in the city were razed, are all gutting losses. We always wonder why someone doesn’t do something. Newsflash. That someone…
Let’s talk pretty. Pretty spectacular. Pretty Amazing. Pretty fantastic. The word gets bandied around, but it’s the perfect word to describe this Santa Barbara modern villa. This home was built in 2005 and was perfect for that era. Venetian plaster walls, cast stone fireplaces, and rough-hewn beamed ceilings gave it an authentic Spanish Mediterranean hacienda…
We’ve turned a massive corner in presenting real estate to a very sophisticated market. Generic is out. Character and color are in. What we call a white-out in staging can still be the cure for those aging McMansions, but when it comes to the luxury market, you need cutting-edge stagers and designers. This gorgeous Beverly…
