SHM Architects

Junior Desinor is Selling His Preston Hollow Georgian Colonial Dream Home

By Karen Eubank / September 5, 2025 /

Sometimes, the best-laid plans come together just as you visualized. That’s the case with Junior Desinor’s beautiful Preston Hollow Georgian Colonial dream home. He tapped the incredibly talented David Stocker of SHM Architects for the design and his friend Scott Powell at New Leaf Custom Homes to bring his vision to life.  Desinor, many of you…

Attention Architecture Lovers: A Remarkable 1970s Treasure Just Listed in Highland Park

By CandysDirt / May 1, 2025 /

If new builds make you yawn and owning a midcentury masterpiece is your dream, you’re going to swoon over this exciting offering that just came to market in Highland Park. This rarity at 3207 Dartmouth Ave. is a serene architectural gem built in the 1970s and meticulously cared for since. It’s now ready for its…

King Charles Gave His Seal of Approval to This Highland Park English Arts and Crafts Revival

By Karen Eubank / April 21, 2025 /

This English Arts and Crafts Revival has garnered considerable attention over the years, especially when it was listed in 2019. At that time, media outlets reported that none other than King Charles III, who was still Prince Charles at the time, found it “utterly appealing.” That is practically a royal warrant! So, how did a…

Designer Kyle Knight Takes a Timeless Mediterranean to the Next Level

By Karen Eubank / April 14, 2025 /

When you think a house cannot get any better, think again. I featured this timeless Mediterranean in 2017, and we were all over the moon about it then. I honestly did not think it could get any better. But along came interior designer Kyle Knight, who, with her unique vision and expertise, took this house…

SHM Architects’ CASA Playhouse Is a Kaleidoscope of Light — for Little Ones

By Joy Donovan / June 27, 2024 /

The description of The Lighthaus reads like a luxury home tour’s marketing brochure. “Though the shell of Lighthaus is made of traditional building materials, we imagine the primary material in this playhouse is light. Transparent exterior panels reveal colorful curtains on the interior, and a circular “stained glass” window filters light into the reading nook.…