Second Shelters

At The Start of the Texas Hill Country Sits a Ranch Worthy of a Modern J.R. Ewing

By Valerie Jarvie / December 1, 2016 /

Forget Southfork — if J.R. Ewing were for real and among us, this would be where he’d want to live. Because, no doubt, while the oil market is depressed, he would be diversified into (what else?) tech. This cool ranch 90 miles outside of Dallas (with plenty of room for a heliport) at the very beginning…

Aloha: Oahu Real Estate Climbs, But Not Scarily

By Jon Anderson / November 23, 2016 /

While the views above are truly million dollar, they’re not wildly more expensive than during last year’s Hawaii special edition.  Once again, I’m taking one for the team to scope out a favorite place for Texas second home buyers.  In 2015, the state reported that 2.3 percent of all Hawaiian real estate was purchased by…

Alys Beach Offers More Top-of-The-Line Townhomes

By Valerie Jarvie / November 14, 2016 /

News from Alys Beach, the stunning Florida Panhandle luxury home and vacation rental community inspired by the traditional architecture of Bermuda: a new phase of custom three- and four-bedroom rowhouses is scheduled for construction with an estimated completion date of Spring 2019. The new project, called Clermont Courts, mimics the design of Caliza Courts, the first phase…

SecondShelters.com: Christy Rost Shows Off Impeccable Historic Remodel in Colorado

By Joanna England / November 2, 2016 /

If you follow television and radio chefs and cooking teachers, you’re likely to be familiar with Christy Rost, who hosted the Texas-based television cooking and lifestyle show Just Like Home for 12 years, and a PBS special in 2009 that has become a Thanksgiving tradition, re-airing nationally every November since. Rost and her husband, Randy, maintain a home in…

Georgia on Your Mind? Mandarin Oriental Residences are a Dream

By Jon Anderson / October 27, 2016 /

One episode of Designing Women has Julia Sugarbaker boast, “I don’t like to brag, but I’ve turned a few heads in my time.” To which Mary Jo retorts, “Well, you didn’t do it with those.”  Of course they weren’t talking about the Atlanta penthouse situated atop the Mandarin Oriental Residences hotel and condominium project, because heads…