Mimi Perez
Mimi Perez is a freelance writer and photographer for CandysDirt.com who lives in the Elm Thicket/Northpark neighborhood located in northwest Dallas.
You can always spot a child of the ‘80s from a mile away. Their homes tend to look like a mall. The colors are bright and perky, there’s lots of neon, and by the end, you just want to scream, “My God, my God, what is wrong with you?” The only appropriate answer to that…
In my time writing about these crazy homes, a few of them have been what looked like murder homes. Homes where murders occurred, will occur, should have occurred, or homes that are simply haunted by a murderer. The murder that occurred at the home featured in this week’s column is the cruelest of all. You…
The home featured in this week’s column reminded me of this crazy movie my daughter had us watch. The movie in question is called “The Lighthouse.” It stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson portraying 1890s lighthouse keepers in New England. It’s partly based on the unfinished Edgar Allan Poe short story called, you guessed it,…
The first home the Gusman and I purchased was in a transitional neighborhood. The guy who lived directly behind us ran a chop shop. It was such a mess. Needless to say, the first home improvement project the Gusman and I invested in was putting up an eight-foot fence. In our case, the other side…
This August will mark two years since we moved our “heir and spare” to California. Our daughter has planted her roots in the land of milk and honey in a town about 15 minutes away from Venice Beach. I love Venice Beach. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, Venice Beach. Yes, yes we are. The house featured in…
