Valentines Day

Three Homes to Fall In Love With, All With Open Houses

By Bethany Erickson / February 14, 2019 /

As we’ve mentioned before, every week we solicit pitches for our various featured listing posts, including our weekly roundup of open houses – and we love what you send us. You can tag us on Instagram, or even better, you can join our Facebook group, Getting the Dirt.  It’s a great place to virtually mingle…

Lovebirds Looking to Roost Will Swoon Over This Tudor on Monticello

By Joanna England / February 14, 2018 /

It’s true, love is certainly in the air this February! Call us corny, but our hearts truly did skip a beat the moment we first laid eyes on 5242 Monticello Avenue, a charming M Streets Tudor in coveted Greenland Hills.   Just in time to fall in love this Valentine’s Day, this three-bed, two-and-a-half-bath home hit…

Architects I Love (Heart Heart Heart): Gary Gene Olp

By Candy Evans / February 14, 2014 /

One of my favorite architects –and I have a few — is Gary Gene Olp, FAIA, LEED AP. Gary has been nominated for the Sustainable Leadership Award.  Voting ends today, on Valentines Day, which seems so appropriate, so I am posting this in case you haven’t heard the good word. If you agree that Gary…

Friday Five Hundred, Romance Week: Built to Blend in, This Gorgeous Hollywood Tudor Has a Kitchen Built For Love

By Joanna England / February 14, 2014 /

The Hollywood/Santa Monica neighborhood is hot right now, with hundreds of families looking for the perfect home in this sweet little subdivision, but thanks to higher prices and a market that is poised for even more growth, it’s hard to find the right house for the right buyer. Still, there are some very lovely homes…

Romance Week: Give Your Valentine a 9700 Square Foot Sanctuary on Five Acres, in Austin

By Candy Evans / February 11, 2014 /

Just two days before Valentine’s Day, on February 12, Casa Santuario, a 9,700 square foot creature of retreat perfection in San Antonio’s Austin’s Tarrytown neighborhood, goes to auction without reserve. That’s — yikes! — tomorrow! (Biting my red fingernails!) That’s right, this carefully constructed, tough-as-the-Alamo, Spanish Colonial -style home will be auctioned to the highest bidder.…