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Get a Sales Tax Holiday at IBB Design in Frisco & Get it NOW

By Candy Evans | September 4, 2015 |

  I was in Fort Worth this week, and designer extraordinaire Eric Prokesh was singing the praises of IBB Design. He was telling me how impossible it is to complete a design job for clients in very short windows of time, mostly because, as we all know, it takes time to order custom furniture. Told…

Adorable Austin Waters Abode is Low Maintenance Style With Amenities For Miles

By Joanna England | September 4, 2015 |

Longtime CandysDirt.com fan Laquita Vickers sent us this week’s Friday Four Hundred, a listing from RE/MAX DFW Associates agent Donna Bradshaw. Vickers says this cutie pahtootie of a patio home is not only in a fantastic location, but it is on a corner lot with a manicured side-yard right next to a planned greenbelt in…

Gables Park 17 Murder: Resident Says Security Lax at Luxury Apartment Building

By Candy Evans | September 4, 2015 |

Update 4:44 pm: we have reached Michael Shaun Jackson and will be speaking with him directly. He tells me he IS a current resident at Gables Park 17, but plans to move out at month’s end. Michael Shaun Jackson, a former resident of the Gables Park 17, says security is lax at the building where…

Inwood Home of the Week: Solid University Park Home is Just What the Family Ordered

By Candy Evans | September 4, 2015 |

The reason you get “smaller” lots in University Park is because of the community’s name, “Parks”. The whole point is community parks for everyone to enjoy. What makes living in this Gold Coast enclave of Dallas that began as a cluster of homes surrounding Southern Methodist University so pleasant is the safety and serenity of…

Designer Barbara Gilbert Uses Psychology of Color to Create Breathtaking Spaces

By Leah Shafer | September 4, 2015 |

Dallas interior designer Barbara Gilbert is an expert in the psychology of color, creating carefully curated spaces that not only work visually, but positively impact function and use. Her attention to detail means you’ll find every inch accounted for in her designs in ways that often surprise and delight. One exampleL LED toe kicks in the kitchen,…

Del Norte Home Offered as Lot or Reno More Than Doubled in Value Since 2004 in Preston Hollow

By Candy Evans | September 4, 2015 |

This Rogers Healy listing is right in the hotbed of controversy over the proposed, and now City Plan Commission-approved, Transwestern development for the western edge of the area known as Behind the Pink Wall. For $699,000 you can have a .46 acre lot — Del Norte does have some hefty slabs of nicely treed dirt…