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There are a lot of new homes going up in Dallas, we trip over them or the cement trucks constructing them almost every day. But I prefer a home that has graciously stood the test of time. Plaster walls, beau d’arc woods, dentils, brick walkways as perfect now as they were then: these jewels are…
This has been a very exciting week for Guardian Mortgage Company. The 51 year old, Plano-based mortgage firm was celebrating up north as it expanded its Michigan footprint with the grand opening of its Troy location on Wednesday, April 6, 2016. This marks Guardian Mortgage Company’s second Michigan location—with the first in Grand Blanc—and the…
An impressive portfolio of remarkable and varied architectural projects in this, the fifth annual Fort Worth AIA Homes Tour, enriches and builds on past successes, furnishing unique insight into the creative design mind. This weekend’s tour features two houses of new construction, as well as three with additions or remodels of existing structures. Two are AIA prize winners, and three were…
As we get closer to the sweltering Texas summer, many homeowners begin to worry about the costs — all that lawn watering and home cooling doesn’t come free, you know! Fortunately, summer doesn’t have to mean sky-high bills that match the Texas temperatures. In fact, with a little forethought and some good old hard work,…
The Sorano, inconveniently built in 2008 on the eve of the real estate bubble, is located at 4111 Rawlins St. in Oaklawn. Looking like it’s been hosed-down in orange buttercream, it’s curb appeal hampers what would have been an appealing development. Coming online as the recession was gaining steam wasn’t the best of christenings. Originally…
I’ve been telling you how hard it is to find homes in the $400,000 to $599,000 price range that are not pending, active, or under contract, and that knock my socks off. Well, not only are my socks off, but I’m running barefoot through the grass right for this charming Lakewood cottage at 6706 Vada,…
