Articles for November 28th, 2008
The Kitchen Next Door
This is the “Mother” of all stoves, the Aga — invented by physicist Dr. Gustaf Dalen, retail about $23,000. This stove is the centerpiece of a kitchen in a neighboring listing/townhome and just may give the unit belonging to Julius Jones a little competition.
Julius Jones Kitchen
Wonder if Julius chased down coffee here this morning. Kitchen of his Uptown townhome listed for $1.3 million.
Curious Condo Pricing
Still trying to figure out how Dallas condo prices could have increased third quarter: a faithful and knowledgeable reader offers this explanation:
“With all the new supply of nice condos coming online over the last few years, when they sell via the MLS they push up the average, as compared to the days when fewer of these new units were selling via MLS. So I don’t think that the units themselves are appreciating much right now, but rather the mix of units sold now includes these new and expensive units.”
Day After Thanksgiving House Horror Stories
Happy Post-Turkey Day. I was in the kitchen for about 10 hours yesterday, went to Cooper this morning to escape, where I heard about a few Thanksgiving House Horrors! One friend, wife of a well-known sportscaster, first Turkey Day in their brand new home, says the sweet potatoe peels clogged her garbage disposal and burst a pipe, which her sweet father-in-law got under the sink to repair while she was baking pies. Another person is without hot water: they have a tankless hot water system in their new home, it malfunctioned, and it’s hard finding someone to repair it. Several years ago we had a frozen water pipe in our home (one of those 1960’s era ranches with zero wall insulation) and my husband used his stethoscope to find the leak in the wall. Then he went to the hospital, borrowed a blow-torch from maintenance, repaired the copper pipe with help from a neighbor. Another year my solo oven went “pop” just as I put the turkey in, so we had microwave turkey. (Double ovens and dishwashers now a must-have on my home list.) If anything in your house can break or go wrong, it will right before you have a houseful — tell us your stories and get out of the kitchen!
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