Going Modern in Texas

May 22, 2009 by Jenna_blog · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Dallas Neighborhoods, Home Builders, Luxury Homes, Texas News 

By NANCY KEATES

Dallas

Some residential suburban communities insist on tiled roofs; others dictate color palettes and lot sizes. Often, the goal is to capture the look of a time in the past, before modern living and high housing costs changed tastes and materials.

But a small number of new developments is taking the opposite tack. Here, buried amongst a middle-class community and near the Central Expressway, is a street where the construction of Colonials and Tudors is expressly forbidden. Even mid-century modern is considered passé. “Make no mistake. It’s a dictatorship and I make the rules,” project developer Diane Cheatham says half-jokingly.

The result is Urban Reserve, a 13-acre development devoted to contemporary design. Pass a neighborhood of standard issue brick tract ranches and turn onto Vanguard Way and suddenly one confronts what looks like scene from a science fiction movie.

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Builders use old-style details in new home construction

October 25, 2008 by Jenna_blog · Leave a Comment
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In spring 2006, 13 employees from Southern Land Company’s architecture department in Franklin, Tenn., flew to Dallas and canvassed neighborhoods including Swiss Avenue, Munger Place and the Park Cities, armed with notebooks and cameras.

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Bathrooms awash in green options

October 25, 2008 by Jenna_blog · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Home Builders, New Homes, Uncategorized 

It’s smart and smart-looking to think green in the bathroom. In an uncertain market, custom and mass-market builders, as well as homebuyers, are OK with eliminating living rooms and downsizing massive kitchens but remain satisfied with the number and size of baths in the typical home, a recent National Association of Home Builders survey shows.

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