White Rock Lake

Deep in the Heart of East Dallas, Find Your Christmas Wish In This Renovated Home

By Leah Shafer / December 22, 2015 /

Deep in the heart of East Dallas, Casa View Oaks is an up-and-coming neighborhood attracting first-time homebuyers, young professionals, and families with its affordable houses, sense of community, and proximity to White Rock Lake. Development in Casa View Oaks started in 1954 when developer H. Leslie Hill built 200 ranch-style houses ranging in size from 836 square feet…

Join the Tiny House Movement With This Little Forest Hills Cottage in East Dallas

By Leah Shafer / December 15, 2015 /

Tiny houses have captured our collective imagination in recent years. There are countless blogs dedicated to tiny houses, and TV shows like Tiny House Nation; Tiny House Hunters; and Tiny House, Big Living have huge audiences. The tiny house movement, also known as the small house movement, describes an architectural and social movement that advocates simple living in small houses.…

Enjoy the Charms of This L Streets Home in Lake Highlands with Cute Spaces, Styling

By Leah Shafer / December 8, 2015 /

The L Streets are a charming part of Lake Highlands, an area with about 1,050 single-family homes from the mid-1950s and later. It is so named because most street names begin with the letter L, like our Tuesday Two Hundred at 8521 Lockhaven Dr. The L Streets are roughly bounded by Walnut Hill Lane, Plano Road,…

Original Metal Geneva Cabinets In This East Dallas Midcentury Are Part of Vintage Charm

By Leah Shafer / November 10, 2015 /

During World War II, America ramped up its steel production to make weapons, build ships, and fuel the effort overseas. Once the war was over, we had tremendous capacity, and it had to go somewhere. Enter the big cars of the 1950s, huge appliances, and home construction (coming out of the war, there were around six…

Durham Builders Create Modern Marvels with East Dallas Santa Barbara Development

By Leah Shafer / October 23, 2015 /

East Dallas has a new modern enclave near White Rock Lake, with three houses built, and four more planned. The Santa Barbara development, near Mockingbird Lane and W. Lawther Drive, creates a style that fuses native Texas materials with California-style architecture. The result is marvelous, something that’s being called “this-century modern.” “When we were doing the original…