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Old Oak Cliff Conservation League Home Tour is This Weekend

By Joanna England | October 16, 2014 |

  Here’s one of our favorite home tours featuring the incredibly diverse architecture of Oak Cliff. The Old Oak Cliff Conservation League’s annual fall home tour has a great schedule this year, with stops that include Arts & Crafts, contemporary, mid-century modern, and traditional-style homes. Seriously, check out some of the cool room-by-room galleries from…

Cool Condo With Graffiti Guest Bath Inside The Cedars’ Beat Highrise

By Joanna England | October 16, 2014 |

If you want downtown views without paying an arm and a leg, head to the Cedars, y’all. The prices are affordable and the uninterrupted views of the world’s best skyline are unmatched! And this two-bedroom, two-bath, fifth-floor condo has amazing views and edgy interiors, all for just $325,000!

Proactive Preservation: The Last House Facing Lee Park Faces The Wrecking Ball With Only Last-Minute Outcry

By Joanna England | October 16, 2014 |

This situation is more akin to the Bill Murray masterpiece Groundhog Day than Dallas would like to admit. We walk along our favorite sidewalks on our regular routes in our neighborhood only to be confronted with a city notice that the structure we’ve come to know somewhat like a best friend is slated for demolition. Even…

Go West: A Compound in Albany, Texas, With Room for the Whole Dang Family

By Candy Evans | October 16, 2014 |

It  seems like this might be the perfect time for bird or dove hunting, no? And you know a beautiful, not too far away place to go for that? Albany, Texas.  Albany is about two and a half hours west of Preston Hollow, the center of my universe. The new visitors center at Fort Griffin…

Escape to Albany: A Fandangle-y Great Family Compound Near Art Prison in the Hottest Ranch Home Town in Texas

By Candy Evans | October 16, 2014 |

This summer I had the chance to visit an amazing property in Albany, Texas, about 125 miles due west, where I understand Trevor Rees-Jones recently bought land. I’m hearing more and more about this part of Texas, which I called west texas until I actually SAW west Texas a few weeks ago! When I was…

Escape Ebola With This: A Dang 4200 Square Foot Barndominium With Concrete Floors You Can Bleach

By Candy Evans | October 16, 2014 |

Don’t know about you, but I’m thinking the ‘burbs and the boonies are looking mighty fine right about now. No worries of Ebola out there in the country, right? (Maybe. Recall you can only get it from the body fluids of an infected person. Or monkeys.)