Highlight Home of the Week Presented by Lisa Peters
Sometimes a renovation is more like an “elevation.” When remodeling and updating, homeowners can choose to take the existing structure and transform it, or they can elevate it into something altogether new and fabulous. That’s what these sellers have done to this North Oak Cliff traditional. The owners not only capitalized on the home’s location…
If you’ve got déjà vu over this Winnetka Heights prairie four-square, you’re not alone. This gorgeous renovated home was on the Dec. 5 Winnetka Heights Holiday Home Tour, notes David Griffin & Co. Realtor Diane Sherman. The sellers did a lot of research about the home, Sherman said. “They found that it was originally three…
When Winnetka Heights was still full of crumbling rentals and dilapidated structures, Diane Sherman saw the beauty in the North Oak Cliff neighborhood. A resident of Winnetka Heights since 1979, Sherman was one of the vocal proponents of the city measures that would make Winnetka Heights a verified, protected historic district. Sherman’s not one to…
For years, Oak Cliff was a neighborhood where you could score a great deal, with so many well-built Craftsman, Prairie, Tudors, traditionals and midcentury moderns on amazing lots going for a fraction of what one might pay up north or out east. Nowadays, if you want to find an amazing deal in Oak Cliff, you…
I’ve heard a few new-to-Dallas people complain that homes in our fair town are “homogenous” or “generic” or “all the same.” To which I often exclaim, “POPPYCOCK!” or something equally ridiculous. Sure, if all you look for is a McMansion on a teardown lot in the M Streets, then that’s all you’re going to find.…
