Historic and architecturally significant homes will be saved with each of the first four steps. But preservation Step Five is the most powerful step. It will guarantee that the historic or architecturally significant home will be spared from being torn down. This final preservation step perpetuates the life of a historic or architecturally significant home…
Why There Is an Acceleration of Highland Park Homes Being Torn Down
For decades, Highland Park homes have been torn down, however, this year this activity has accelerated . Perhaps new residents have had an impact. For instance, the great influx of home buyers from California to Dallas has created many benefits for Dallas and has exacerbated some problems. The greatest negative effect on our urban landscape…
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Highland Park Teardown or Architecturally Significant Survival?
A Highland Park teardown is just another old, out-of-date house or it is an architectural accomplishment designed by one of the best architects in Dallas or the country, and the former home of prominent residents. An insignificant Highland Park teardown makes room for a new architect-inspired home. An architecturally significant home that becomes another Highland…
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Sorority Home Saved at SMU
It never occurred to me until now that a sorority house is also a sorority home, and many times an historic home contributes to a campus or town. Homes are historic because of their architectural value or the residents that inhabited them or both. Sorority houses like this one, SMU’s Alpha Xi of Gamma Phi…
Highland Park Preservation Success
Historically and Architecturally Significant Home is Celebrated and Saved in Highland Park Preservation Success is achieved in Highland Park! Many consider this Highland Park home designed by Mark Lemmon to be the most historically significant home in Highland Park and maybe even in Dallas and North Texas. Highland Park, University Park, the State of Texas,…
Swiss Avenue Architectural Exclamation Mark
Swiss Avenue boulevard was created as the grandest street in Munger Place, the first deed restricted neighborhood in Dallas, where every home was required to be designed by an architect. In the early 1900s, Munger Place was considered the finest residence park in the Southland. Prominent Architects Designed Architecturally Significant Homes on Swiss Avenue That…
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Greenlining is Remedy for Redlining and Bluelining
Greenlining designated areas of Southern Dallas for new and renovated single-family homes would give that neighborhood a positive direction, an economic thrust, homeowner confidence that propels a neighborhood and a certainty of success. The More Homeownership in a Neighborhood, the Stronger the Neighborhood The strength, safety and viability of a neighborhood increases with the rise…
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Homes That Make Us Happy – Timeless Observations
In 2016, I did a TEDx Talk, Homes That Make Us Happy, based on my blog article, Characteristics of Homes People Love. I look back at those insights to show that the characteristics of homes people love were apparent even before the pandemic. However, the pandemic made us focus on the elements of the homes…
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Seven Reasons Why People Are Moving From Los Angeles to Dallas
The trickle of people moving from Los Angeles to Dallas five years ago has now become a wave. People are moving from Los Angeles to Dallas for the same reasons that for years people moved to Los Angeles. For generations people moved to Los Angeles for the blue skies, beautiful weather and the sense of freedom…
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Personality of Dallas Seen Through Top Five Iconic Dallas Restaurants
Dallas Restaurants Receive National Accolades Dallas is partially defined by the national accolades directed to its new Dallas restaurants. In 2019, the last year restaurants were open, Bon Appétit named Dallas the Restaurant City of the year. Two of the Dallas restaurants were named in the top 10 new restaurants in the country, with the…
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Organic Urbanism Encourages Community, Embraces Nature
The pandemic has us focusing more on the criteria for choosing a city, a neighborhood and a home. It comes down to aesthetics, economics and future happiness — the foundation of organic urbanism. Aesthetics drive the economics of a neighborhood and a home. The health of a city and neighborhood contributes to the happiness and…
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The Characteristics of Homes People Love
For the people who really love their home, 10 characteristics that make them happy come up over and over again…
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Inspired Architecture Benefits Shelter in Place
Shelter in place has us focused on the characteristics of a home that makes us happy. What makes us happy in a home has not changed, but since we are spending more time in a home than ever, we are focused on what makes us happy in a home. Neighborhoods become more important during shelter…
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Future of Design—Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas
Interior designer Ken Fulk created a celestial study that maybe suggests Jupiter or Uranus is in the Fourth House propelling exuberance in design. Or maybe the fanned out tarot cards on the table show a destiny card indicating 2021 design with notes of green and Aegean Teal, the Benjamin Moore color of the year. Or…
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Neighborhood Gates for President Bush New Home Will Double Land Value on Street
Small changes in a neighborhood can often have great impact good and bad. Here gates double value.
