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A new Magdalen House facility on Caddo Street offers a no-cost two-week social detoxification program for men suffering from alcoholism — and it was important to the nonprofit organization’s leaders that it be safe, comfortable, and feel like a real home. Enter Karen Otto and Home Star Staging. Otto met Magdalen House Women’s Coordinator Ashleigh…
By Norman Alston, FAIA In recent months, the local community, especially the historic preservation community, has celebrated remarkable progress in the long fight to both recognize and protect our history. Painful losses continue, and the cry that Dallas can’t protect its remaining historic buildings still rings out loudly, but the recent approval of the Deep…
Trees, it seems, are more valued than a strip of restaurants or luxurious houses in some cities. Like the Lorax, who speaks for the trees? As it turns out, several North Texas cities have come down on the side of our favorite atmospheric oxygenators in the past year, making decisions ranging from zoning decisions to…
We’ve spotted a trend in historic neighborhoods where people maintain the beautiful architectural details on the outside, but render the era unrecognizable inside. To find a home on the market in places such as Munger Place or Junius Heights with vintage chandeliers and tile is extremely rare. However, David Collier at David Griffin & Co.…
Unless you’re building a home from the ground up with an unlimited budget, there will inevitably be a few things about the home you purchase that you wish were different, or that you have to fix. When it’s time for the home inspection, it’s important to know how to use the information this tool provides.…
There is a funny story behind this week’s column. The featured listing was sent to me by three different people. The first was from our illustrious Publisher Candy Evans. She simply texted me the link. I looked at the first photo, which had flamingos painted on the garage door. If I had a garage door…
