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Forget The Popcorn, But Let’s Dance on The Ceiling With These Fabulous Open Houses

By Joy Donovan / April 27, 2023 /

So we’re not exactly dancing on ceilings, but ceilings will not be ignored. We’re way past the popcorn ceilings, those thick, bumpy, and sometimes even sparkly ceiling textures so popular from the 1950s to the ‘80s. Also known as “cottage cheese” or “acoustic ceilings,” they were created to quiet the noise. Supposedly New Yorker Francis…

Magical Lakewood Mediterranean Is Like a Siren Calling Creatives Home

By Candy Evans / November 3, 2021 /

I have been in this home not once, but twice! It was on the 2013 Lakewood Home Tour, which was my second dose of 7130 Brookcove; The first was a few years before. I was auditioning for a role in a film the owner (the homeowner) was shooting there. The beautiful front archway leading to…

University Park Modern Luxury Mansion

By Karen Eubank / August 3, 2017 /

Our Inwood National Bank Home of the Week is a modern luxury mansion in University Park, designed by award-winning commercial architect Edwin Brantley Smith. Created for his family, 3412 Wentwood Drive was one of the first cutting-edge, modern homes in the Park Cities.