Nikki Barringer

Nikki Lott Barringer is a freelance writer and licensed real estate agent.

Kimley-Horn Offers a Parade of Playhouses Double Feature

By Nikki Barringer / July 23, 2023 /

It’s the last Parade of Playhouses write-up this year and we’re going out with a bang. It’s Kimley-Horn people!! They’re an engineering, planning and environmental sciences firm and they’re HUGE. They work on projects across the United States and the variety is STAGGERING. We’re talking a UNLV Parking Garage, the City of Odessa Water and…

The BECK Group Squares Off for Dallas CASA Parade of Playhouses

By Nikki Barringer / July 22, 2023 /

For eight years, architecture and commercial construction company The Beck Group has created playhouse designs for the annual Dallas CASA Parade of Playhouses at Northpark Center. And every year they come up with completely inspired designs that seriously make you say, HOW DID THEY TOP LAST YEAR?! But they do. Every dang time. I mean,…

Highland Park High School’s Parade of Playhouses Entry is Inspired by Charles Dilbeck

By Nikki Barringer / July 18, 2023 /

Highland Park High School means business. They have a MAPS program that stands for “Moody Advanced Professional Studies.” It’s a three-pronger that includes brain science and health, engineering design, and environmental architecture. The program was designed to create a “profession-centered approach to education.” Now here’s where I’m about to tie it all up in a…

Cool Off Two Ways in This Canyon Creek Home

By Nikki Barringer / July 15, 2023 /

There’s a little park and walking trail in Richardson called Prairie Creek Park. It has a waterfall and creek you can really wade in, incredible mature trees, crazy greenery, and it’s just one of the best places to be when you need to escape the heat radiating off our concrete. I’ve also noticed it’s like…

A Reimagined Cottage That Just Might Be The Best House in Beckley Club Estates

By Nikki Barringer / July 14, 2023 /

Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate’s Bill Farrell has known he was going to list this pristine property in Beckley Club Estates for a minute. And I can only imagine that’s about the toughest secret Farrell has had to keep because this house is owned by two designers. We can pretty much stop there, right? TWO DESIGNERS…