Highlight Home of the Week Presented by Lisa Peters
As Amanda Popken noted in one of her most recent columns here on CandysDirt.com, “67 percent of residents in Dallas-Fort Worth want to live in a walkable community at some point in their lives” and yet only 4 percent and 1.5 percent of the entire region can be classified as walkable. That’s why there’s such…
Mark Martinek is the designer behind MOD Construction, a firm that designs and builds modern, eco-friendly homes. I’ve always been in love with these properties, how they evoke the same kind of shapes popularized during the 50s, but had facades and materials that were grounded and unique. If you’ve also been lusting over Martinek’s designs,…
Normally our High Caliber Home of the Week is a sleek, modern design, but there’s something absolutely irresistible about this Kessler Park home designed by the great Charles Dilbeck that we absolutely had to feature it. The woodwork, the masonry, the gorgeous fireplaces and unique spaces, winding paths and romantic bedrooms — all of these…
Suburb dwellers, rejoice! Boy do I have a deal for you! If you want all of the posh amenities and open spaces you can get with a new build, but don’t want to go through the tribulations of renovating within the city limits, you’re going to adore this absolutely fabulous 1970s soft contemporary that has…
The size and shape of a lot can greatly influence the look and feel of a home. Sometimes a sprawling home on a large lot is nothing short of nirvana, but to transplant that same home to one of the miniscule footprints in University Park? Well, that’s heresy. This gorgeous 1969 contemporary, which has clerestory…
