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After Complex Remodel, Stacey Warnix is Building Her Passion into a Business

By Joanna England | April 9, 2015 |

If you think you’ve seen Stacey Warnix’s home at 6934 Hammond Ave. before, you’re not having deja vu. Our own Cassie Evans featured this home as an off-market listing just weeks ago. This five-bedroom, three-bath renovated Tudor is in one of the mos picturesque areas of Hollywood Heights and has such fabulous finish-out thanks to…

Interview with an Architect: Larry Paschall is an Ambassador for Architecture Community

By Leah Shafer | April 9, 2015 |

In our ongoing series, Interview with an Architect, we speak with leading voices in the North Texas architecture community and learn about their work, development issues in our community, and good design practices and principals (you can read the first one here). Larry Paschall, AIA, is Vice President and founding member at HPD Architecture, an architecture…

On a Clear Day You Can Live Forever in this Windsor Park Lock and Leave

By Candy Evans | April 9, 2015 |

This home is one of those rare finds that makes you drop your fingernail file and pay attention.  A home that is so versatile it melds equally to the empty nester in search of a lock and leave property, or a young couple seeking a family home that is in the heart of everything —…

House Hunting: Single Mom Sold House in 52 Hours, Can’t Decide Where to Move

By Leah Shafer | April 8, 2015 |

Lisa Long is a single mother and pottery teacher in Richardson ISD who recently decided to sell her three-bedroom Irving house after five years and move closer to work. Long found herself in a situation emblematic of the fast-and-furious pace of the North Texas real estate market: Her house was on the market for 52…

Community National Title Plant Manager Geline Spinks Has The Business in Her Blood

By Joanna England | April 8, 2015 |

When I sat down with Geline Spinks and her mother, Carla LaPointe, for coffee, I had to admit to both of these women that I wasn’t exactly well-versed in what title companies do exactly. I knew that there was some research involved, that examiners looked at a property’s history of ownership before a sale could…

Alcuin School Granted Baccalaureate Expansion Plans by Dallas City Council

By Candy Evans | April 8, 2015 |

Looking for a home near Churchill Way? That area is about to get a whole lot more secure.  We told you how Alcuin School on Churchill Way offered an olive branch to its neighbors in the form of a private neighborhood patrol that will cost the school $1 million over a ten year commitment period,…