House Candy

How About a Pool Lined With 24-Carat Gold? For $125 Million, Miami’s Most famous Residence, the Versace Mansion, Can Be Yours!

By Candy Evans / July 18, 2012 /

Our Miami correspondent, Andrea Kavanagh, is back and house-hunting for us! Calling all billionaire art aficionados and free-spending, globe-trotting investors! Miami is all a buzz over Ocean Drive’s most infamous residence to hit the sizzling hot real estate market at a whopping $125 million. Casa Casuarina, also known as the Versace mansion, is an iconic…

Dallas Most Popular City in U.S. With Generation Y — Millennials

By Candy Evans / July 18, 2012 /

According to giant Moving.com, an online source for moving-related services, millennials love Dallas. Like, a whole lot. Seems that with the job market so tight and everything pretty sucky once they graduate from college, millennials are shunning NYC and the We$t Coa$t for cities with job growth and affordable housing. And guess what, we have…

Life Imitating Art: Former Kimbell Staffer Modeled San Antonio Home After Museum

By Joanna England / July 16, 2012 /

Maybe it’s just because I haven’t worked in any truly beautiful structures, but I would never model my home after a former workplace. Who wants to go home and be reminded of work?

Emily Sano did.

After working at Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum for about 10 years, Sano accepted a position at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Still, she remained heartsick for the place where she spent many a day admiring the light and flow of the Louis Khan-designed museum, says this piece from the Wall Street Journal.

Monday Morning Millionaire II, for the Jet Set: House, Trimmings Plus a 2323 Square Foot Jet Hangar and Toy Box

By Candy Evans / July 16, 2012 /

This is a home at Air Park-Dallas, or Dallas Air Park,  actually a strip of homes near an airport now owned by the City of Carrollton. You are seconds from Willow Bend Mall, in Collin County, and I mean by car. Dallas Air Park was built in 1965  by Milton Noell, former mayor of Addison,…

Monday Morning Millionaire: Modern Mansion on Ash Bluff is Priced to Move!

By Joanna England / July 16, 2012 /

This home really made me do a double-take. I was scrolling through the pictures and I asked myself, “Self, if you had enough moolah to buy this incredible 6,000-plus-square-foot home, how much do you think it would run?” I was tossing a few numbers around in my head — maybe $3 million, give or take…