Articles about home makeover
Building or Remodeling? Formals, Wine Cellars Are Out
Toured several new homes in Dallas yesterday, including a new, gorgeous $2.9 million spec home that has no formal living room. According to the architect/designer, Don Caperton, Caperton Johnson, two things are out: formal living rooms and wine cellars. The formal living rooms are considered a waste of space and building dollars. Unsaid but widely known: they also keep the Dallas Design District afloat and serve up to many a Dallas husband heart-attack-sized design bills. Wine rooms are also over-rated, costly to install, a legal nightmare if you have teenagers, and people never end up filling the cellar with all that wine.
They just drink it.
Next thing you know, people will be filling their swimming pools.
Portrait of the Artist At Home:Pamela Nelson’s Commode
In case you decide to get creative this weekend.
Dallas-Palm Springs Real Estate Hook Up At Mecox
Not only did the Dallas design community come out of the proverbial woodwork for last night’s fabulous party at Mecox on Cole, so did the Realtors: I saw my buddies Erin Mathews, David Nichols, Charles Gregory and Dave Perry-Miller, who LOVE Mecox, DPM may soon be showing Palm Springs homes to owner Mac Hoak. Though Mac told Peggy Levinson that the Dallas store is one of the lone bright spots in the country — he told me the rent on the NYC store is astronomical — he also said that the LA store tops sales. So the next time the Southampton resident is in LA, he just may pop down to meet Dave in Palm Springs and check out the bargains. Can you imagine what Mecox could do to this?
Extreme Home Green Makeover: Fair Park’s Congo Street Gets a Face-Lift
Really heart-warming story; twenty five young people from TREC’s (that’s the Texas Real Estate Council, an active group of commercial real estate dynamos) Associate Leadership Council de-constructed, by hand, a 90 year old delapidated house at 4523 Congo Street in Jubilee, an historic African-American neighborhood near Fair Park, all of 525 square feet, and re-built it totally green saving and re-using as much of the original historical home as possible. Here is what they got : an 880 square foot LEED-certified home. Shades of Extreme Home Makeover. Way too cool, can we do more of this?
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