Fireplaces

Durham Builders Create Modern Marvels with East Dallas Santa Barbara Development

By Leah Shafer / October 23, 2015 /

East Dallas has a new modern enclave near White Rock Lake, with three houses built, and four more planned. The Santa Barbara development, near Mockingbird Lane and W. Lawther Drive, creates a style that fuses native Texas materials with California-style architecture. The result is marvelous, something that’s being called “this-century modern.” “When we were doing the original…

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The Neiman Marcus Showcase Home is On The Market. Well, It Was…

By Candy Evans / January 23, 2014 /

This is curious. On January 14, 2014 Allie Beth Allman listed the stupendous Neiman Marcus Showcase House which we all remember so very well  when it was built in 1996. 10,930 square feet of sheer perfection with five bedrooms, six full and three half baths, five fireplaces which are working overtime today I’m sure, rich library,…

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Monday Morning Millionaire: A Home With Nine Fireplaces is Looking Pretty Cozy Right About Now

By Candy Evans / December 9, 2013 /

You know how some folks make fun of those who build build huge homes with multiple fireplaces? Why do you need multiple fireplaces in Dallas, they jeer, it never gets cold here. Yeah, right, and we never are without heat, are we? There’s a reason for fireplaces, and the folks in these homes know that…

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Tuesday $200,000: Spacious Cedars Master Will Steam You Up in More Ways Than One! This One’s For You, Herman Cain

By Candy Evans / November 29, 2011 /

Herman Cain might like this weeks’ $200k sale: it’s all about the master. 1519 Beaumont Street in The Cedars features a sauna off the master that I would love to try out right about now. It also has a unique master bedroom platform configuration that I just do not understand, but maybe that is because I…

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