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Designer-Approved Tips for a Holiday Tablescape That Wows

By Elaine Raffel | November 20, 2024 |

With just a week until Thanksgiving, it’s time to talk turkey – and stuffing and cornbread and pumpkin pie. But what really elevates the celebration? A festive holiday tablescape.

Long Beach Home is Perfect for the Flouncy Pouncey Pirate in All of Us

By Mimi Perez | November 20, 2024 |

The opening salvo for this week’s column has been quite the challenge. The best way to describe this house is that it bears a strong resemblance to a pirate ship if said pirate ship were made out of rocks. Pirate ship, you ask? How in the name of everything good and holy does a house…

Fort Worth Architect Albert Komatsu, R.I.P.

By Joy Donovan | November 19, 2024 |

Fort Worth architect Albert Komatsu, who leaves behind a prolific portfolio of Midcentury Modern work, died Oct. 30 at the age of 97, just one month short of his 98th birthday. Services will be held at 3 p.m. Dec. 12 at a church he designed, St. Stephen Presbyterian Church, 2700 McPherson Ave., in Fort Worth.…

Anti-Displacement Toolkit: Helping Legacy Residents Stay in Their Dallas Homes

By April Towery | November 19, 2024 |

As gentrification reshapes neighborhoods across Dallas, Builders of Hope Community Development Corp. is helping vulnerable residents fight back with a comprehensive anti-displacement toolkit aimed at preserving the city’s legacy communities. The “Right to Stay” initiative, devised in partnership with the Dallas Housing and Community Development Department and significant community input, recommends policies and programs that…

No Thanks, Green Acres; I Just Adore Fort Worth’s Omni Residences’ View

By Joy Donovan | November 19, 2024 |

“I just adore a penthouse view,” sang the glamorous Eva Gabor in the sitcom hit “Green Acres” back in the 1960s. Some of us also adore that kind of view. Now there’s a spectacular high-rise home on the market that would convince Eva Gabor to trade her Manhattan views for downtown Fort Worth views. At…

A Beautifully Updated Northern Hills Tudor is a Rare Dallas Find

By Karen Eubank | November 18, 2024 |

No one can deny Dallas has an abundance of pretty homes. What is, however, becoming rare are beautifully updated and preserved historic homes. Coming across one like this Northern Hills Tudor is especially exciting because what our beautiful new homes don’t generally have an abundance of is character. Homes built in the 1920s were chock full of…