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Go To Design School With Carleton Varney… At The Greenbrier, How About at the Ritz?

By Candy Evans | January 26, 2012 |

This has to be the greatest thing since, well, designs by Dorothy Draper: Interior designer Carleton Varney, who designed several units here in Dallas, including The Residences at the Ritz Carlton and also at The Stoneleigh Hotel, has also designed furniture, lighting, dinnerware and linens; he has two lines of fabrics, as well as a CD (“Carleton Varney, Music With Style”).

Thursday Three Hundred is Also Candy’s Sale of the Week: This House Is So Darn Wonderful, It’s Driving Me to Curse!

By Candy Evans | January 26, 2012 |

Why not combine two birds into one feather or whatever that saying is. I saw this house Tuesday and just cannot get it out of my mind. Probably one of the most amazing conversions of a 1950’s ranch I have ever seen! It’s in Midway Hollow, good side of Lenel, and even better for you…

The Best Little Beachfront Community in Texas Real Estate: Affordable, Accesible Second Homes

By Candy Evans | January 26, 2012 |

We may not have a beach in Dallas, but we do just a few hundred miles south at Cinnamon Shore…

Cinnamon Shore Is Coming To Dallas: A Texas Second Home Report

By Candy Evans | January 26, 2012 |

The folks from Cinnamon Shore are coming to Dallas on Monday, January 30. Email me if you’d like to come & learn more! One of my favorite vacation home destinations is Cinnamon Shore on Mustang Island in southern Texas, just about an hour south of Corpus Christi, and maybe five miles west of the charming…

President Obama’s SOTU Address: This Man Just Doesn’t Get Housing, God Bless Him. Maybe He Should Consult With Michael Lewis?

By Candy Evans | January 25, 2012 |

Oh my, on the housing real estate front, his SOTU speech was even more dissappointing than I had anticipated. While President Obama spoke, I was at the rain-drenched McFarlin Auditorium at SMU hearing out Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short and his latest book I am dying to devour, Boomerang. I thought it ironic…

Amazing Architects: Crazy Living by Gary Olp

By Candy Evans | January 25, 2012 |

I love architects, and this is their space to wax eloquently. This summer in Pebble Beach, I toured the famous “Butterfly House” by Frank Wynkoop. When I saw the bench where the architect/owners’ son sat and watched many a sunset, I felt a harmony not just to the environment, but to him. That is exactly what great architectutal design…