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Home Staging: Do Designer Pets Help Sell Homes, First or Second? Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / August 7, 2011 /

I knew it was only a matter of time before this happened. After all, Realtors have been stealing tips from ad pros for years to make homes look glorious in photographs to entice buyers. What have I been telling you for years — it’s all about the photos, right? Now we hear that “placement pets“, as…

Friday Ranch Porn: Too Hot To Live In Dallas, Get Thee To A Ranch STAT

By Candy Evans / August 5, 2011 /

I think we can honestly survive 100 degree plus temps better on a ranch. Less concrete, more trees and shade. I love the ranch life and in my perfect world I’d have a ranch a few hundred miles away from Dallas, our beach house in Maine, my beach condo in Florida on the Gulf coast,…

Candy’s Sweet Real Estate Deal of the Week: MidCentury Mod on Malcolm $275,000

By Candy Evans / August 2, 2011 /

Lakewood Mid-Century Modern available at an unbeatable price. Even better, the owner is a well-known local photographer who has made me promise to keep mum — until the margaritas kick in! If you love you some mid century modern, look no further than this terrific circa 1950 two bedroom and two bath at 6351 Malcom with study/work…

We’ve Got Company: The Design Guide + SecondShelters = Party

By Candy Evans / July 21, 2011 /

We like to have fun over here on SecondShelters, and we REALLY like company. (Who likes to prattle around in a house all by themselves?) So now, we’ve REALLY got company, a whole bunch of the very best designers in Texas who read and utilize the very best source for design. The Design Guide and Secondshelters are…

Who Needs Palm Springs: Mid Century Modern in Kessler Lights My Fire for $200,009 – Not Kidding

By Candy Evans / July 19, 2011 /

Who needs Palm Springs? Besides, it’s almost as hot here, right about now. This nee 1963 mid-century modern sweetheart is sleek, snazzy and will actually save on your water bills and landscape frustration. (This coming from someone with crispy critter plants!) Built into an Oak Cliff hillside at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, the home…