House Candy
All the second homes in Destin, Port Aransas or Pebble Beach could not pull me away from next Saturday’s Park Cities Historic and Preservation Society‘s Spring home tour. That’s April 2, 2011, from 10 am – 4 pm. The owners of six gloriously historic and architecturally significant Park Cities homes will toss open their doors…
Read MoreThis home in Rockport, Texas is only $29,000 but listed on CNN’s America’s Ugliest homes report. Why are three of the ugliest homes in the U.S.A. on this list from Texas? Rockport, Houston and oh dear — Fort Worth! PS: Blow the leaves, clean up the toys, this place might not look so bad!
Read MoreYou are looking for the best real estate values in greater Dallas, right? You want a maintenance, headache-free first or second home close to that great maker of getaways, D/FW Airport. Yet you continue to look in Dallas. Are you crazy? Las Colinas is right next door, closer to D/FW, and has some of the…
Read MoreI have never understood the need for a sitting area in the Master bedroom. A chair or two, but if the closet is large enough — and walk-in — why do you need a sofa in the master? Can someone please explain? This $17,995,000 over the top home is in Los Angeles, of course: over…
Read MoreMy my we could fit the whole dang family in this gorgeous bedroom. This is how the folks live in Thousand Oaks, CA: 2500 White Stallion Road, great address, Westlake Village. 16,000 square feet, 23.48 acres — you will want horses — 7 bedrooms, 11 baths, formals out the wahzoo, media, pool, outdoor kitchen, all…
Read MoreWe don’t know why, but last fall the newlywed Jonas brother, Kevin, and his New Jersey-born wife, Danielle, put their Vaquero home on the market over there at 2000 Rock Dove Court. (Don’t tell us: The house was too close to Mom and Dad and the other Jonas brothers over there on Wisteria Way? Or…
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