Dallas real estate

Guardian Angel: Ricky Phillips is a Loan Officer by Day, Home Decor Store Owner by Night

By Joanna England / September 23, 2015 /

Do you use both sides of your brain? This month’s Guardian Angel Ricky Phillips does. Not only does he love the problem-solving, number-crunching aspect of being a mortgage officer, but he’s also deeply smitten with the color-coordinating, detail-minding aspect of owning his own interior design business. Methinks that Phillips would be a great one-stop-shop for…

Dallas City Council Votes For Demolitions Delay in Effort to Slow Loss of Historic Architecture

By Joanna England / September 22, 2015 /

We’re still reeling from the loss of 10300 Strait Lane, a gorgeous Bud Oglesby-designed modern on one of the most beautiful streets in Dallas, so you can imagine how heartening it was to read Robert Wilonsky’s post announcing that the Dallas City Council voted to approve a demolition delay. The new law is intended to…

New Project Announced in The Cedars Uses [SURPRISE!] Shipping Containers, But Are They Over?

By Joanna England / September 21, 2015 /

I know that not everyone is going to agree with me, but I’ve been thinking about this ever since PV14 was built: Shipping containers as housing is over. So over. When Michael Gooden was hoisting the long metal boxes in the air that would make up his shipping container project in Old Lake Highlands that…

Inwood Home of The Week: Almost-New Bluffview Construction Has Proximity With a Capital P

By Candy Evans / September 21, 2015 /

This home at 8312 Ridgelea is almost a dream that is too good to be true. Give it an A-plus for location! You are talking about one of the hottest neighborhoods in town, Bluffview. This parcel of homes near Lovers Lane are all walkable to West Lovers Lane shops and super close to Love Field,…

Uchi-Uchi-Coo: Showroom Event at Aria Stone Gallery

By Jon Anderson / September 18, 2015 /

This story has since been updated here and here. In August a dear friend was returning from weeks in Japan, stopping in Austin before returning home to New Hampshire. She alerted me and, never needing much of an excuse to bomb down to Austin, off I went for a dinner date. She’d asked me what’s…