Celebrity Homes

Monday Morning Millionaire II is Something to Wine About: 14,000 Square Foot North Texas Compound Has an Irish Pub and Chambourcin Grape Vineyard!!!

By Candy Evans / March 11, 2013 /

A home with an active producing vineyard in North Texas? You bet your chardonnay! I just got in a few hours ago from the Peninsula of northern California where we spent some time near Saratoga Springs at a shooting range. Yes, Virgina, people do own guns in California. Along the winding mountain road we saw…

Hey Diddle Diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle, Kari Kloewer's Having a Baby Soon!

By Candy Evans / March 7, 2013 /

Last Saturday was Celebrate Baby Day at Allie Beth Allman’s fabulous Crestpark penthouse that, quite honestly, rivals Tim Headington’s. I mean, does Tim (or the new owner) have a greenhouse or a pond on HIS terrace? The occasion was a joyous baby shower for agent extraordinaire Kari Schlegel Kloewer who is expecting a baby boy…

Hey Diddle Diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle, Kari Kloewer’s Having a Baby Soon!

By Candy Evans / March 7, 2013 /

Last Saturday was Celebrate Baby Day at Allie Beth Allman’s fabulous Crestpark penthouse that, quite honestly, rivals Tim Headington’s. I mean, does Tim (or the new owner) have a greenhouse or a pond on HIS terrace? The occasion was a joyous baby shower for agent extraordinaire Kari Schlegel Kloewer who is expecting a baby boy…

Building With the Boys! With Their Preston Hollow Masterpiece Complete… What Will the Boys Do Next?

By Candy Evans / March 7, 2013 /

To refresh, we have had a series here on CD called “Building With the Boys”. Two of my dearest house-crazed friends, Tim Loecker and Justin Kettler, have chronicled their travails of building with home builder Mark Hayes. I met Tim and Justin years ago when they were buying, fixing and flipping houses faster than Aunt…

House Inspectors’ Worst Nightmare: Moving a Dead Body to Get Attic Access in Dallas

By Candy Evans / March 6, 2013 /

You know they see it all — the nightmares we don’t see on those nicely staged internet photos like live electrical panels next to bathtubs, toilets with no legroom, rodent infestation, grounded plugs that are not really grounded, rotted wood, hot wires behind cardboard, gerry-rigged wiring and toilets/drains that flush into plastic swimming pools either…