Texas’ growing Hispanic population
Spend a few minutes nearby or on Columbia Avenue, and you’ll get a glimpse of the demographic trend that will transform Texas in many ways in the next couple of decades.
York Street
Buying a neighborhood restaurant with a 12-year history can be complicated. To last that many years, in Dallas restaurant history, is a long time.
Home Design insert a showcase of practical ideas
Of all the questions I’ve been asked over the years, one in particular stands out as the most difficult to answer: “What color is your living room?”
Finding a ‘dream home’ in an unexpected place
Meet two neighborhood families who had the skills necessary to track down their ideal homes where some of us wouldn’t think to look.
The importance of curb appeal
Talk to real estate professional, and all agree that curb appeal – what your house looks like from the street – plays a key role in selling a home quickly and for a good price.
Creating a beautiful and functional bathroom
“It’s a room people spend more time in than almost any other room of their house, so why not make it as nice as the other parts of the house?”
Preparing a home for its technological future
“When people get a chance to add electronics now, I always tell them to leave a conduit in the wall. You never know what you’re going to be putting wires in for next.”
A lifetime of parenting, watchdogging
Parents are watchers. It’s our job. It was our parents’ job before us. It will be our children’s job after us.
East Dallas’ garden art makers
As wonderful as it can be to spend time alone in the garden, sometimes it’s nice to have some other, well… things… around.
Steps to hiring reputable handymen, contractors
Alan Clarke wasn’t quite sure how to find someone who was both reputable and professional. Wouldn’t that take almost as much time as doing the work himself?
Bob and Jennifer Johnson’s Hollywood Santa Monica home
The couple says they “discovered their creativity and caught that old house bug” when they bought their first small bungalow in Lakewood Heights after they were married.
Greg Lorie: Architect of Lakewood Shopping Center overhaul, Matt’s Rancho Martinez
Lorie is the owner of Architectura, a firm responsible for the cutting-edge look of hot spots such as Cool River restaurant in Las Colinas.
