Fort Worth Friday
I wanted my return from my hiatus to bring readers something really special and was fortunate to find this spectacular modern offering in Westover Hills at 2103 Indian Creek Dr. Modern? Westover? Westover may connote for some, traditional, even stuffy but the well-heeled enclave does contain several of Fort Worth’s premiere modern gems. The A.…
Do any of you recall and miss the old University Park before decades of tear downs and new builds made it fancier, even dare I say flashier? Alas we can’t turn back time. Or can we? I remember my introduction to Berkley Place in Fort Worth at the home of a couple who were to…
So sexy and this 4,800 square foot speaks with a French accent as well. These Mansart-roofed houses were criticized when they were built as deviating from classical French architecture. And in truth, the giant arched two-story window units that break through the roof line have no antique precedent but through the lens of time the…
“A million dollars isn’t what it used to be,” legendary oilman H.L. Hunt is reputed to have said. I’m afraid that is the painful reality for buyers in today’s real estate market. Not to take anything away from this undeniably winsome four-bedroom, three-bath house, with over 2,600 square feet after additions. The charmer also sits…
Alright. I am happy in my hundred-year-old Texas Mediterranean house chock-a-block with period antiques. And yet. When confronted with the simplicity and elegance of an outstanding exemplar of the modern idiom, it’s not difficult to lose myself in the reverie of imagining a very different life. Winston Churchill once observed, “We shape our dwellings, and…
