Friday Four Hundred

Belmont Addition Cottage is So Cute You Could Eat it Right Up

By Joanna England / July 21, 2017 /

There’s finally a name for it: “cute aggression.” It’s that feeling you get when you see a baby, a kitten or puppy — or in my case, an adorable house — that makes you want to take a little love bite out of it.  That’s exactly the feeling I got when I first saw 5918…

Eyecatching Midcentury Home Has Spacious Interiors, Family-Friendly Backyard

By Joanna England / July 7, 2017 /

We’ve caught a lot of flak from readers when it comes to the definition of midcentury modern, but for most purposes, it tends to span the 1950s and onward to 1965. So while this Northwest Dallas home has all of the lines of a soft contemporary from the curb, it technically falls into the period of…

Bring Your Inspiration to This Hollywood Heights Tudor

By Joanna England / June 30, 2017 /

  Never before have I seen a Hollywood Heights Tudor hit the market that was so ripe for remodel. This home, perfectly situated in the neighborhood, was built in 1926 and has many original features. Already, renovation-minded buyers have their ears perked up. The benefit of having a mostly original home is that there hasn’t…

Head-Turning Kidd Springs Central Remodel Breaks the Mold

By Amy Puchaty / June 9, 2017 /

The first thing that comes to mind when I think of the Kidd Springs neighborhood in Oak Cliff are the charming smaller cottages, most under 1,800 square feet, with a handful of grand homes sprinkled in. But more often than not, these Kidd Springs cuties come with odd floorplans and upper level masters that aren’t…

Just Listed L Streets Ranch Has Fab Finish-Out For a Family

By Joanna England / May 19, 2017 /

I moved to East Dallas about 11 years ago, and if you were to tell me then that most homes on the market in the Lake Highlands area were poised to top $400,000, I would have laughed at you and asked you what planet you are from. But guys, all those folks who bought in…