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Best of 2020: Custom Home in Colleyville Has Details That Soothe The Soul

By Seth Fowler / December 29, 2020 /

[Editor’s Note: This year has been a decade, right? So many things happened, lots of things were postponed, and houses continued to sell despite it all. While the CandysDirt.com team takes a hot minute this holiday season to recharge the ol’ Energizers, we’re serving up our very favorite stories from 2020. Enjoy!] Seth: Merry Christmas!…

Custom Home in Colleyville Has Details That Soothe The Soul

By Seth Fowler / July 21, 2020 /

“Detail.” It’s a word in the residential construction that is grossly overused. Along with that word you can add: “quality,” “unique,” “craftsman,” and of course, “custom.” It’s too bad that builders and homes don’t have to pass a test before they are allowed to use those terms when describing their products. In this day and…

Dreamy Midcentury Modern in My Favorite Westside Enclave

By Eric Prokesh / January 31, 2020 /

Discreetly tucked into a wooded one half acre lot, it is in the still strongly popular mid-century modern idiom.

Fort Worth English Country Estate is a Once-in-a-Lifetime Property

By Karen Eubank / January 14, 2020 /

This magnificent Westover Hills English country estate was built in 1929. In all that time, it has had only had three owners. There is always a reason for that. When a family stays in a house for years and years, it means that home has what we call livability. It fulfills absolutely every need of…

This Modern Glass House in Fort Worth is a True Phoenix

By Karen Eubank / January 6, 2020 /

I used to think of Fort Worth as the older, wiser, more traditional sister city to glossy, trendy, look-at-me Dallas. Then I saw this modern glass house built into a bluff in the Park Hill neighborhood of Fort Worth. I was never quite the same. I know, both our Fort Worth columnists — the taste-meister…