Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City!
Oliver Micklewright has fond memories of lazy summer days, watching his parents float on their inflated “lilo” lounger. What Americans call a float, or even a raft, the British call a lilo (pronounced lee-low). Micklewright set out to design one that c…
Read MoreDallas has no shortage of great home tours. Any weekend is well spent exploring the glamorous bungalows of Hollywood/Santa Monica, the Queen Anne-style estates along Swiss Avenue, and the quirky, Charles Dilbeck-filled corner of Cochran Heights. But on…
Read MoreSara Johnson’s mission was clear: punch up a pretty but plain white picket home in Dallas’ Preston Hollow neighborhood. But while interior designers are accustomed to tight turnarounds, her clients’ timeline needs were particularly time-sensitive. They…
Read MoreOne evening in early June, Robert Bellamy puttered through the gardens, clippers in hand, looking for spent blooms. The delicate climbing roses he had carefully transplanted in winter had begun to migrate across Tower House’s dusky pink stucco exterior…
Read MoreIn February of 2023, the Dallas Museum of Art announced its open search for an architecture firm that could reimagine Edward Larrabee Barnes’ original 1980s building. After 154 submissions, six finalists were chosen to display their proposed plans at t…
Read MoreHôtel Swexan, the striking new tower at the corner of Moody Street and Pearl, doesn’t look like any Dallas hotel you’ve seen before. There’s the modern, mirrored exterior, designed by renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma (also responsible for the nei…
Read MoreOlivia Persia loves old houses. “I can’t see myself living in something new,” says the 34-year-old interior designer, who moved into a 1939 residence in Houston’s Southampton neighborhood five years ago with her husband, an oil …
Read MoreAnother noted mid-century time capsule of a house has hit the market in Fort Worth, carrying a $4.2 million asking price. It’s known as The Brachman House and is located at 3720 Autumn Drive in the city’s tree-lined Overton Park Addition, about a block…
Read MoreHoustonian Lily Barfield never dreamed that her passion for antiques and antique hunting would lead her into the realm of influencers with an Instagram following of more than 26,000 and growing. It was an unexpected trajectory. As a newlywed, she was f…
Read MoreDesign, restoration and marketing gurus Chip and Joanna Gaines have taken their 15 minutes of fame and parlayed it into a full-fledged empire. Waco will never be the same. Now, one of the designing couple’s most noteworthy Fixer Upper projects kn…
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