Architectural Design

Inwood Mortgage Home of the Week: Good Breeding, Great Bones Make This Preston Hollow Park Lane Tudor a Classic

By Candy Evans / November 6, 2013 /

Our house of the week for Inwood Mortgage typifies what a little clean-lined interior design can do for a 14 year old home: make it look brand new! Let’s face it: styles change every few years, but 14 years is almost light years when it comes to design. What I love about 6239 Park Lane…

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Monday Morning Millionaire: $12.995m Buys You a 16,000 Square Foot Beauty on Briarwood and Oh Yes, a “River” Runs Through It

By Candy Evans / September 10, 2012 /

How this mansion escaped me, I know not. First of all , I know the owners and they are brilliant, wonderful people who work magic with any home they have touched. And this one, well, this is their masterpiece. How I wish I had $12 million because I would snag this — this Celtic palace! — in a heartbeat! First of all, location: Briarwood, Bluffview, can it get better? I am a total sucker for stone and this home looks like they just shipped an entire Scottish quarry over to the site: wait, I stand corrected. Those are not just STONES, those are BOULDERS meticulously graduated, designed to get larger towards the bottom. So we not only consumed the entire quarry, we hand-picked the rock in it. Architectural design by the brilliant Wilson Fuquay, contractor the famous and oh-so-particular Cy Barcus.

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