Urban Living in Dallas

From Flipping to Finding Her Passion: Jenni Stolarski Stumbled Upon Her Career as a Realtor

By Joanna England / March 13, 2013 /

You can tell that Jenni Stolarski has a lot to be excited about. The Kings Highway Conservation District resident and Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s agent is hard at work making her neighborhood a better place to live. How does she do it? By putting down roots. Literally. Stolarski started an effort last year to plant hundreds of…

Curbed’s House of the Day is One Amazing Oak Lawn Townhome Priced at $10M

By Joanna England / March 4, 2013 /

Curbed’s writeup on 3845 Oak Lawn reads like a rejection letter a hot girl might send a well-intending guy after a bad first date: With the lack of any sort of charming neighborhood, this place might find it hard to achieve its sky-high $10M asking price. At least a glassed-in courtyard on the second floor provides some…

Curbed's House of the Day is One Amazing Oak Lawn Townhome Priced at $10M

By Joanna England / March 4, 2013 /

Curbed’s writeup on 3845 Oak Lawn reads like a rejection letter a hot girl might send a well-intending guy after a bad first date: With the lack of any sort of charming neighborhood, this place might find it hard to achieve its sky-high $10M asking price. At least a glassed-in courtyard on the second floor provides some…

Friday Five Hundred: Life is Sweet on Turtle Creek, And This Renovated Claridge Condo Has Views That Inspire

By Joanna England / February 22, 2013 /

We tend to obsess over condos here from time to time, searching through listings and Pinterest. (By the way, did you know you can pin photos from CandysDirt.com just by hovering over them and clicking the “Pin It” button? Well, you can.) Sometimes we find one that is so money and it doesn’t even know…

The Dallas-Area’s Josh S. LeComte Dreams of Building Dream Homes That Are High on Style, Low on Waste, And Last a Lifetime

By Joanna England / February 12, 2013 /

Josh S. LeComte attended the University of Texas in Austin hoping to become an engineer. It was a twist of fate (and a distaste for life behind cubicle walls) that led him to discover his passion for building homes, which he follows today with his personal brand of modern and efficient construction. An up-and-coming design/build…