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09/12/14 1:45pm

Splashing Down Behind the Wall of a Split-Lot Property in Westhaven Estates

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Home Decor, Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Open Houses, Price Reductions, Westhaven Estates
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The frontrunner on a split lot with a shared driveway, this 2002 contemporary in the Westhaven Estates area captures space for a splash zone courtyard. Sculpted landscaping and decorative panels soften the curbside appearance of the sturdy wall erected near the sidewalk on Inwood Dr., south of San Felipe Rd. between Nantucket and Potomac drives. The front property’s relisting by a new agent this week set a $1.139 million asking price. Back in February, a previous market appearance had begun with a $1.195 million price tag. A reduction in April, to $1.145 million, briefly snagged a contract in June before the property took off for the summer.

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Energy Corridor
09/11/14 3:15pm

This $1.3 Million Lakeside Venture Home May Look a Bit French-ified, But It’s Filled with Ranch Dressing

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Home Decor, Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors
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This Energy Corridor area home may present Frenchier lines to its neighbors, but there’s some whoopin’ country-style living hidden inside. Located in the Lakeside Venture neighborhood — west of S. Kirkwood Rd. and north of Briar Forest Dr. — the property’s large-but-narrow lot is just over an acre and shaped a bit like a boomerang, with one tip near the street. In its relisting earlier this week, the 1979 home’s asking price took another tack: $1.295 million.  A previous listing by the same agent in July 2014 had begun at $1.695 million but dropped the asking price a month later to $1.475 million.

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Featured Posts
09/09/14 3:30pm

A Not-So-Modern Midcentury and Its Late-Century Addition in Old Braeswood Are Now Looking for $1.29 Million

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Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Old Braeswood
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At the newer end of Old Braeswood, where the housing is typically more fifties vintage than stately prewar stock, there’s an updated stoney-faced original home with a smooth-sided seventies addition. The latter blocks the large corner lot’s interior from cross street Kirby Dr., 3 blocks north of Brays Bayou and the Rice School. Some of the added space rocks on, including the family room with its sturdy stone fireplace (top). A contract on the property fell through in May 2014, when the asking price was $1.15 million. After a brief timeout, the home reappeared in July with a fresh price tag that’s still in effect: $1.29 million.

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Featured Posts
09/08/14 5:00pm

Through the Balustrades of a Home on Lake Conroe That’s All Legs and Decks

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Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Lake Conroe
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Viewed from the waters of Lake Conroe, the lacy tiers of a 1974 home in April Sound lend a layer cake appearance to a property that likes balconies enough to feature them outside and in. Leggy columns connect exterior parapets on 3 levels (top). The interior’s double-sided version spans the main living area between a pair of wooden staircases. Listed at the end of August, the property has a $950,000 asking price. A previous listing that lasted for 8 months back in 2008 had originally sought $888K but found no takers, despite a reduction to $747K.

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Featured Posts
09/04/14 2:45pm

On the Lookout for a $1.65 Million Maximum Mediterranean in Spring Valley

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Home Decor, Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Spring Valley
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Like an arrowhead, the groomed lot sprouting a custom 2007 Mediterranean comes to a point — though the tip, where Merlin and Ben Hur (drives) part ways south of Westview and west of Voss Rd., is separated from the base by a circular driveway linking the 2 streets within the Cedarwood section of Spring Valley. Listed a week ago, the property has a $1.649 million asking price. Does the lots-o’-lawn on the grand approach come with a back-lot equivalent? Judge for yourself:

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Featured Posts
09/03/14 2:45pm

A Modern Colquitt Townhome’s Gently Lowering Price Tag

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Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Price Reductions
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Overhangs, cutouts, and eyebrow arches shade the balconies and patios of a 2005 stucco contemporary in Lancaster Place. The townhome’s price in its relisting today by the same agent, $749,990, is $100K less than in its initial appearance back in April. Price reductions in the interim sought $799,900 in May and $775,000 in July before the previous listing terminated Tuesday. The corner unit differentiates its footprint from a not-so-identical twin next door with sprout-and-chrome accents — and more:

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Featured Posts
09/02/14 4:30pm

Hitting the Big Time in an Updated Cottage Compound in Pinelawn

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Home Decor, Home Design, Homes for Sale, Houston Heights, Interiors
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To create some buzz about an updated 1929 cottage with bumble bee trim tones in a section of the Heights dubbed Pinelawn, viewing of the property was put on hold until the weekend, several days after its listing last month for $437,500. Tiers of patios, porches, decks, and pavers help extend the living space outdoors. The fully-fenced corner compound is located up the block from Field Elementary School.

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Clocking in at $437,500
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Condos for Sale
08/29/14 3:30pm

Making A Splash in a $5 Million Penthouse Atop Bayou Bend Towers

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Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors
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Other than flyovers by the occasional drone or maybe a high-flying bird or 2, there aren’t too many privacy breaches that might threaten the penthouse level of Bayou Bend Towers, a tony, 1981 condoplex. A 3-level unit — featuring an expansive rooftop terrace and cushy private poolscape (top) — arrived on the market a week ago with an asking price just shy of $5 million. Showings won’t begin until after the holiday weekend, but here’s a preview of the palace-like place and its 180-degree views that sweep from downtown, over River Oaks (and its golf course), to the Galleria:

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Featured Posts
08/28/14 4:30pm

Inside a Redone Mod in the Northwestern Reaches of Meyerland

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Home Decor, Home Design, Homes for Lease, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Meyerland, Renovations
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Too late. The mid-summer rental-rate reduction to $4,495 per month for this renovated 1967 Meyerland home expired with today’s re-listing of the property. The ask is back up to the $4,600 per month of its original rental listing, dating from early July 2014. Or you could flat-out buy the place. The for-sale listing, pegged at $657,500, also popped up on the market today.

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Avondale
08/27/14 4:15pm

All the Places To Live Hidden in This $579K 1940 Home on the Edge of the Avondale East Historic District

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Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors
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Is this Avondale property a home, a compound, or a discrete semi-plex? From the street, at least, the exterior remains discreet about its reworked interior space. And the downstairs does maintain much of the home’s original flow, heavy-with-trim formal rooms, and many of the 1940 structure’s early features (top). The same is true upstairs, though a section on that floor functions as an extensive separate suite. An aerie on the third floor adds even more living space. The property in the Avondale East Historic District appeared as a listing yesterday — with a $579,000 asking price.

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Featured Posts
08/26/14 5:15pm

A Pearland Pagoda Property Tries Again, This Time at $699K

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Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Pearland, Pearland
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Even before hitting the courtyard pool, an Asian-inspired home in Pearland’s Green Tee Terrace golf community takes a dip with its pagoda-style roof — and hand-dipped gold leaf panels on the living room ceiling (top). Could the distinctive 1982 property be too distinctive for the area? In a series of successive listings, its price has kept dropping. Last week, the stately home popped back up on the market again, this time seeking $699,000. In its initial listing back in 2011, the asking price started at $1.2 million and was whittled back to $895,000 over a 2-year period. A 6-month interim listing in September 2013 found no takers at $800,000 or at the $750,000 reduction in December. Back in 2005, it sold at $614,000, down from a 1999 sale for $649,000.

Attention to detail is one of the property’s hallmarks; so are shoji screens in many of the rooms . . .

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Bay Oaks
08/22/14 3:30pm

This Playful Contemporary by the Links in Bay Oaks Is Yours for Just Under $1.4 Million

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Home Decor, Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Modern Design
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It’s big, but not the biggest home on its cushy Bay Oaks block. Bigger still are the fairways of adjacent Bay Oaks Country Club, on display behind this fully loaded property that’s located south of Clear Lake Blvd. The updated 1989 contemporary clad with stucco, stone, and tile was listed this week. The asking price of $1.399 million marks a noticeable spike from the $898,000 paid in 2011, when the current owners took hold.

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Braes Terrace
08/21/14 3:15pm

Going Gray Suddenly at 61, a Braes Terrace Redo Aims for a $698K Flip

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Braeswood Place, Home Decor, Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Renovations
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Up next: This 1953 ranchburger with modernized trimmings in Braes Terrace (top). Had you looked at this Buffalo Speedway corner lot property when it was listed in March (at right), you’d have found it priced at $369,000. (It sold quickly, for $361,000.) Earlier this week, a re-imagined spread at the same address hit the market with a $698,000 price tag. In addition to designer-driven cosmetic tweaks, the overhaul included new electrical wiring and plumbing, roof, French doors, garage door, side deck and driveway. Do the results merit a $337K leap?

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Featured Posts
08/20/14 4:15pm

Around the Space-Age Curves of a Late-Seventies Multi-Level Pad in Spring Branch Estates

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Home Design, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Spring Branch, Spring Branch Estates
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The interior of a decked out 1978 Spring Branch Estates home uses changing floor finishes to cue its ups and downs as the floor plan twists around a spiral staircase beneath a 20-ft. dome. The flow creates living spaces on several levels — and some rather unusual, futuristic features . . .

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Taking Turns
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