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The Week Ahead on CandysDirt and SecondShelters: Calistoga, California Here I come

By Candy Evans | October 3, 2011 |

My second home this weekend! As I have told you, I launched CandysDirt.com on July 1, 2011, my very own version of the super duper popular DallasDirt blog I created for D Magazine and kept going, growing for almost four years. CandysDirt (no apostrophe) is ALSO growing by leaps and bounds — please check it out…

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The Glass House Price is Shattered, Slashed and Reduced…

By Candy Evans | August 31, 2011 | Comments Off on The Glass House Price is Shattered, Slashed and Reduced…

Talk about the most perfect first, second or third home ever. Oh my, recall when I wrote about The Glass House? I called it Stairway to Heaven. That ultimate redefining structure within modernism? Not only does it have great bones, it has location squared. A 3.5 acre estate of oak groves in Montecito, California. The home…

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Arnold the Sperminator at Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance: Maybe My Second Home WILL Be a Car

By Candy Evans | August 25, 2011 | Comments Off on Arnold the Sperminator at Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance: Maybe My Second Home WILL Be a Car

Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance is like a SuperBowl for car enthusiasts. Me, I love vintage and collectible cars: love the lines, love the (revving) engines, love the interiors. Concours is a show and tell of whose collecting what and strutting the best. The grounds of the venerable Pebble Beach Golf Resort– the 18th hole of…

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Welcoming McLaren to Dallas: If My Second Home Is Going To Be A Car, I’m Not Buying Till Park Place Premier Is Open

By Candy Evans | August 25, 2011 |

Guess what’s coming to Dallas this fall besides, hopefully, a nippier real estate market? The McLaren, over at Park Place. Park Place McLaren Dallas will be located along side the Park Place Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Maserati and Jaguar dealerships at 5300 Lemmon Ave. This new group of ultra-ultra- premium automotive brands, all of which were on display…

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Your Second Home Nirvana in Northern Cali: Help Me Critique This Groovy Peninsula Spread

By Candy Evans | August 9, 2011 |

This could really get me in water that is hotter than my swimming pool right about now, but a friend in California is selling their home and these are the photos the agent shot.Naturally, I have some strong opinions, which I am going to withold. It’s a lovely contemporary northern Cali home circa 1983 but…

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It’s about 68 Degrees Right Now in Pebble Beach and I am In Love with a Short Sale: Second Home Nirvana Marked Down More Than $100K

By Candy Evans | July 21, 2011 | Comments Off on It’s about 68 Degrees Right Now in Pebble Beach and I am In Love with a Short Sale: Second Home Nirvana Marked Down More Than $100K

And fortunately, I’m a very cheap date. The home I’m in love with is a Blue Light Special marked down by a whopping $101,000. I am not kidding. As you know, many Dallasites are summering up in Pebble right now, cool as cucumbers. I’m talking about designer extraordinaire Trisha Wilson, Realtor extraordinaire Joe Kobell, Ellen…

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