Midcentury Modern

Casa View Hosts Cliff May Home Tour on Oct. 15

By Joanna England / August 8, 2016 /

In the East Dallas neighborhood of Casa View Oaks, homes on the blocks surrounding Andrea Drive are selling like hotcakes. With their low-slung gabled roofs, walls of glass, and clerestory windows, these homes hit the highlight reel of everything everyone nowadays loves about midcentury modern design.  In this transitioning neighborhood with tree-lined streets and upwardly…

Pretty as a Pytcher: Another Cute East Dallas Flip, This Time in Lochwood

By Joanna England / July 29, 2016 /

Lochwood is lousy with adorable 1960s ranches, midcentury traditionals, soft contemporaries, and midcentury moderns, so it’s a favorable neighborhood for flippers with flair. Pytcher Homes, the same firm that reimagined a stuffy Old Lake Highlands ranch into a luxe and livable home, is building quite the portfolio. This Lochwood traditional, marketed by Kevin Caskey and…

Preston Hollow Custom Home with a Palm Springs Vibe

By Karen Eubank / July 14, 2016 /

Dallas has always been a hotbed of excellent residential architecture, and our Inwood National Bank Home of the Week is a perfect example of the sterling level of local talent. The architectural firm Domiteaux + Baggett are the masterminds behind this Frank Lloyd Wright inspired Preston Hollow custom home with a Palm Springs vibe. It…

Luxury Market Slowdown Equals Opportunities For Bargains

By Jon Anderson / June 28, 2016 /

We all know that anything under $1 million is flying off the MLS faster than a Cabbage Patch Kid in the 1980s. In the $1 million-plus market, homes are still flying off the shelves like Cabbage Patch Kids … in 2016. Sure they’re still selling, but no one is getting trampled. This sentiment was echoed…

Greenway Parks Midcentury Modern is Love at First Sight

By Karen Eubank / June 27, 2016 /

Buying a house is a lot like online dating. You see the profile, the gorgeous photos and then you meet. That’s when you find out if that profile is really too good to be true. Your first date with this midcentury modern beauty at 5539 Montrose Drive will prove the profile doesn’t lie — it’s…