The estate at 10620 Strait Ln. in Dallas features exceptional luxury outdoor living spaces.
Summer in Texas gets a bad rap. But with the right outdoor living areas, you can enjoy hot weather in style and comfort, whether it’s an evening soirée with your friends under the big Texas sky, or a casual afternoon lounging by the pool. These kinds of properties offer incredible options that make every moment spent outdoors a pleasure.
We’ve found three properties with stunningly beautiful luxury outdoor spaces. Think covered patio kitchens, arching shade trees, sparkling swimming pools, lush gardens, manicured landscaping, and water features. Pair these with some of Dallas’ finest houses — and neighborhoods — and you’ve got a recipe for loving summer!
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This home, like the neighborhood, is dripping with high profile names: Richard Drummond Davis the architect, Barry Buford the builder. Robert and Myrna Schlegel’s four and a half acre family compound is nearby, as is the stunning home of Diane and Michael Gruber.
The standards were beyond exact and detailed: every state of the art feature imaginable was brought into the interior when it was built in 2002. The huge designer kitchen opens to a great room, with Citizen Kane fireplace and vaulted ceilings. But what makes this home truly enviable is the huge green space almost directly across from the home, with a soccer-field sized field. Talk about room to roam: you just don’t find this kind of property location in 2014 unless, honestly, you head into the bowels of the Honey Pot and claw everyone else out of the way.
The green space affords a park-like setting to every home on the street surrounding it: it’s like living across the street from Central Park. 
That’s why homes seldom come on the market on this street, why they are gone the minute the owner “thinks” they want to sell. With five bedrooms, five and a half baths, formals, game room, guest suite, library and study, a mud room, limestone floors, rich cherry woods, neutral palettes, you are getting a large enough home that is not consuming the .98 acre lot like a space-ravenous lion. There is even an elevator. 
