Karla Trusler

Is a Good Designer The Key Element to Keep Your Historic Highland Park Home Standing?

By Karen Eubank / December 14, 2023 /

In a word, yes. Find yourself a smart, creative interior designer, and your historic Highland Park home will stand a much better chance of survival. I’m not picking on Highland Park in particular. In general, if you have a historic home, you must meet the expectations buyers have today. That means keeping it up to…

Inwood Mortgage Home of the Week: The Belle of Belclaire Has Been Reduced Just in Time for the Holidays.

By Candy Evans / December 12, 2013 /

And I am now a House Whisperer! Honestly, someone tell me why 4212 Belclaire is still on the market? It has everything going for it and then more. It is so clearly ready for a new owner to love, nurture and cherish it, and it promises to love a new family back in return. What’s…

Monday Morning Millionaire: This Beverly Drive Beauty has a Basement, Too… Loaded With Booze

By Candy Evans / July 30, 2012 /

`I LOVE Kelli and Gerald Ford’s Turkish Bath in the basement over there on Turtle Creek. But on Beverly, you can get 6550 feet with everything, and I do mean everything PLUS wine in the basement for way less than the cost of a tree-house on Turtle Creek: $2,950,000. This circa 1929 bambino was completely, lavishly…