House Candy
To refresh, we have had a series here on CD called “Building With the Boys”. Two of my dearest house-crazed friends, Tim Loecker and Justin Kettler, have chronicled their travails of building with home builder Mark Hayes. I met Tim and Justin years ago when they were buying, fixing and flipping houses faster than Aunt…
You know they see it all — the nightmares we don’t see on those nicely staged internet photos like live electrical panels next to bathtubs, toilets with no legroom, rodent infestation, grounded plugs that are not really grounded, rotted wood, hot wires behind cardboard, gerry-rigged wiring and toilets/drains that flush into plastic swimming pools either…
You know they see it all — the nightmares we don’t see on those nicely staged internet photos like live electrical panels next to bathtubs, toilets with no legroom, rodent infestation, grounded plugs that are not really grounded, rotted wood, hot wires behind cardboard, gerry-rigged wiring and toilets/drains that flush into plastic swimming pools either…
Happy Birthday, Ebby! Almost 500 members of the Ebby Halliday Companies gathered at Southfork Ranch on Tuesday, March 5, bright and early in the morning to celebrate Ebby’s 102nd birthday. The festive event included a pancake breakfast with all the fun fixins. Ms. Ebby had a wonderful time posing for photos with hundreds of friends…
“First we shape our buildings, then they shape us” -Winston Churchill. The first time I heard about “Culture Gulch” was from Dallas builder extraordinaire Cy Barcus, senior, who collects art by Dallas artist Jerry Bywaters. Cy began collecting art 35 years ago when he bought a single painting by Dickson Reeder from a gallery in Fort…
