Highlight Home of the Week Presented by Lisa Peters

This Lake Highlands Soft Contemporary Is No Cookie Cutter

By Shelby Skrhak / April 22, 2020 /

Nora Lane of Allie Beth Allman describes this week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, a four-bedroom, five and half-bath, as comfortable, cool, and different in a great way. “No cookie-cutter home here,” the listing agent says. Can I get an Amen? Nestled in a quiet cul-de-sac in Lake Highlands, you’ll fall in love with…

Professional Landscape Design Shines in This Kessler Highlands Tudor

By Shelby Skrhak / April 15, 2020 /

This week’s High Caliber Home, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans, is proof that everything in life comes full circle. “I’ve been in real estate for 25 years, and this home was one of the first I sold actually,” says listing agent Diane Sherman of Dave Perry-Miller InTown. The updated two-bedroom, two-bath Tudor…

This Northwood Hills MCM Has the Perfect Front Room to Take In the Outdoors

By Shelby Skrhak / April 8, 2020 /

So, last week there was a Palm Springs MCM home so feature-worthy that we had two different writers simultaneously (but unknowingly) writing about it. But this week I’m laying claim to this 1964 midcentury modern home listed by modern expert Brandon Stewart of David Griffin and Company Realtors as the High Caliber Home of the…

It Was the Affordable American Dream in 1954 and It’s Still That Way Today

By Shelby Skrhak / April 2, 2020 /

Back in the 50s after World War II, young Dallasites who were eager to own a piece of the American dream flocked to Casa View Oaks, where homebuilders like Leslie Hill, Cliff May, Hallmark Homes, and Neece and Mahaffey-Wagner built affordable homes starting at $12,000 on the east side of White Rock Lake. Today some…

Take In This Frank Lloyd Wright-Inspired Stunner on Strait Lane

By Shelby Skrhak / March 25, 2020 /

Escape for a few blissful minutes to this stunning architectural creation by Douglas Guiling AIA on Strait Lane, brought to you by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans as the featured High Caliber Home of the Week. “The home’s architecture unfolds in a sequence that lets the suspense build,” explains listing agent Janelle Alcantara of…