Open Concept

Wake Up to White-Picket Dream in McKinney

By Joy Donovan / October 31, 2025 /

So, you’ve been dreaming of the perfect life…down to the white picket fence, you know an American symbol of the good life. If your vision of a perfect life includes a white picket fence, you’re in luck. In historic downtown McKinney, here we have a house with that literal white picket fence at 919 S.…

Take Advantage of This Extraordinary Euless Moment

By Joy Donovan / October 11, 2025 /

Euless is having itself a moment. Once referred to as “Useless, Texas,” the North Texas suburb is glammed up and ready to go toe-to-toe with any of the ‘burbs between Fort Worth and Dallas. The Tarrant County city of more than 61,000 has a lot more going on now. The immensely popular Glade Parks retail…

Live Where You Land With This Hanger That Comes With a Home

By Joy Donovan / September 9, 2025 /

There’s that saying about men and their toys. You know…they never outgrow them; they just get more expensive. Well, if they’ve got toys, let’s give the guys — or the gals! — a place to call home. Here’s a home for the toys, the boys, the girls, and even some pets. It would be tough…

Saving the Pink Bathrooms in a 1954 Casa View Midcentury Modern

By Joy Donovan / October 25, 2024 /

“Save the pink bathrooms” is an oft-heard rallying cry of East Dallas. That mantra evidently was heard by the sellers of the character-filled Midcentury Modern home at 3114 San Vincente Ave. in Dallas. The bubble-gum pink tile remains in this updated house making a direct call back to the 1950s. Yes, there are those who…

Trend: Broken Concept Opens Rooms While Retaining Separation of Space

By Jon Anderson / April 5, 2016 /

There’s a new design term percolating over from Europe called “broken concept.”  I think of it as open concept 2.0. If the point of open concept is to remove all dividing walls to combine multiple rooms, Broken Concept is about achieving openness while retaining some separation. Think of it as a halfway point between individual…