Fort Worth Dirt
Raise your hand if you had a Lincoln Log set when you were a kid. Aside from Legos, the Lincoln Logs were my favorite. Nothing was more fun than building log cabin homes … and then of course selling them to my favorite Star Wars and G.I. Joe figures. Now imagine if you had a…
I loaded photography and blocked out this knock-out listing feeling confident that, since it was only listed Thursday, it hadn’t been covered by my friendly rival, Seth Fowler of Tarrant County Tuesday fame. Then I dug deeper and discovered that Mr. Bow-Tie had beat me to the punch by three years. Still, this house is…
Privacy is something we all desire. There are few truly private areas now that our daily lives are spewed all over social media platforms and product advertisements for items we just searched or purchased appear instantly on our web browsers. Seemingly, the last bastion of privacy is our homes. Even that is under attack as…
I’m suspicious of motives behind phrases such as “highest and best use,” which are intended to offer a moral justification for razing older properties. With its oversized lots and access to first-rate Tanglewood Elementary School, the many smaller 1960s ranch-style houses that average 2,500 square feet have proved tempting targets for teardown and redevelopment. Many…
Multigenerational. It’s a word previously used by all 5th-grade teachers to confuse kids during the spelling bee. Now it’s a fairly common word. Multigenerational is used to describe a home where grandparents, parents, and children all live together. If you ever watched the television show The Waltons, (you know, “Good night John-Boy”) that was an…
