Home Tours

Lake Highlands Women’s League Brings The Holidays Home

By Joanna England / November 21, 2016 /

Yes, now that our regularly scheduled fall home tours have come and gone, it’s time to make some room on your calendar for the Christmas home tours. The annual Holiday in the Highlands home tour organized by the Lake Highlands Women’s League is a perennial favorite, showcasing the surprising architectural diversity inside one of East…

A Home Tour With Excellent Taste: Fifth Annual Gingerbread Stroll Opens Nov. 18

By Joanna England / November 14, 2016 /

As if the wonderful shopping at Highland Park Village wasn’t reason enough to get you to go there, this Friday, one of the sweetest home tours ever launches in the upscale shopping center. The fifth annual Gingerbread Stroll kicks off on Friday, Nov. 18, with 11 stops featuring some of the most artful gingerbread houses…

Ticket Giveaway: Lakewood Home Tour This Weekend

By Joanna England / November 9, 2016 /

Of course, we’re completely thrilled about attending this weekend’s Lakewood Early Childhood PTA Home Tour, part of the weekend festivities of the 40th Annual Lakewood Home Festival. It will definitely get our minds off of things, and you’ll get a chance to traipse through a home many Lakewood residents know well — the O’Neil Ford…

Lakewood Home Tour Features O’Neil Ford Texas Modern

By Karen Eubank / November 7, 2016 /

  Frankly, we don’t know how they do it. Heading into their 40th year, the organizers of the Lakewood Home Tour always find proud homeowners willing to share their gorgeous and often architecturally significant houses with the public. In doing so they have raised millions of dollars since 1976, all benefitting local schools. This year, six…

Vickery Place Home Tour Features Duplex Completely Remade Into a Haven For a Family

By Joanna England / November 3, 2016 /

When Jenn Dawkins first met her would-be husband, Ken, he already owned a home — two homes, if you want to get technical — in Vickery Place. It was a duplex on the neighborhood’s eponymous street, and it wasn’t without its charms. It just wasn’t really functional as a single-family home. Ken had purchased the…