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Curtains Called

A Midcentury Bayou-Side Braes Heights Home’s Blind Ambition

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Down came the curtains and up went the price of this sturdy 1955 home with stone and tile floors, among other original touches. It sits on an over-sized lot fronting the north bank of Brays Bayou just west of Edloe in Braes Heights. Back in May 2012, the midcentury property sold for $313,000. Its November 2013 listing has a $495,000 asking price. Will it flip? Although the current description touts the lingering livability of the existing home, it makes no mention of any specific updates in the interim, though judging from the latest pics the interior does appear to have lightened up with fresh paint and the jettisoning of old-school window treatments.

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by CALwords
Homes for Sale, Interiors
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12/06/13 12:15pm
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Fix-Me-Up

A Hopeful Westmont Home’s Not-So Blank Canvas

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Eight — count ’em, 8 — curtain calls have had this updated 1961 Westmont home (near Tanglewilde) on and off the market since February 2010. In the interim, a series of listings, relistings — and a break or two — saw adjustments to the asking price from a low of $149,000 in October 2012 to a high of $199,900 in early November 2013. The price tag has since dropped $10K, making it $189,900. Appearing now as an as-is basic beige home in its from-the-curb portrait, the property displays a more colorful inner life:

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by CALwords
Home Decor, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Westmont
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12/05/13 12:00pm
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Single Stylin’

A Mini-House Among Many in Westway Courtyard Homes, for Less Than $90K

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It’s one and done for this wee 1-story, 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom home with 1-bay garage in the Westway Courtyard Homes development of Spring Branch. (This single-minded 1979-built home did opt for twice the driveway, however.) Still, it’s the smallest home among double-decker neighbors. Arizona-style landscaping also sets the extensively “renewed” address apart from others in the community of 329 efficiently proportioned homes located north of Clay Rd. near Gessner Rd. This pint-sized property appeared on the market in late November and has a $81,105 asking price.

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by CALwords
Homes for Sale, Interiors, Spring Branch
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12/04/13 1:00pm
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Around the Atrium

Reflecting on the Overgrowth of a Seventies-Era Lakeside Estates Townhome

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The 2-story atrium inside this 1977 Lakeside Estate townhome (top) comes with a fountain feature that’s dwarfed by overgrown plantings reaching toward the skylight. Could extra light bouncing from mirror to mirror downstairs have sent photosynthesis into overdrive?

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by CALwords
Homes for Sale, Interiors, Lakeside Estates, Townhomes
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12/03/13 11:00am
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Where To Watch the Water from a Million-Dollar Morgan’s Point Estate

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In the Morgan’s Point Historic District, a 1997-vintage custom home’s water-view windows and width-of-house veranda (visible through the window in the top photo) provide vantage points for some relaxing Upper Galveston Bay surveillance. The waterway is likely to be full of passing activity; the Barbour’s Cut shipping terminal is nearby. The bayside property, designed by Bruce Conaway and built by John Wycoff & Associates, includes an updated 1900 carriage house, which sits closer to the street on this deep lot with a 103-ft.-long private beach and a 400-ft.-long shared pier.

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by CALwords
Homes for Sale, Interiors, La Porte
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12/02/13 3:00pm
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Will it Flip?

Fresher, Cleaner, Greener: Down by the Waterhole, a Willowbend Redo

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10509-willowgrove-02Pansies in the planter and fresh paint inside and out help perk up a 1955 Willowbend Ranch-with-carport that’s been overhauled since its purchase in June 2013 for $205,000. The refreshed version — with new kitchen, tilework, landscaping, and pigment-coated brick — sprouted on the market earlier this month, asking $379,900. Is the redo worthy of a $174,900 lift?

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by CALwords
Homes for Sale, Interiors, Renovations, Willowbend
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11/27/13 2:30pm
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With Cemetery View

Atop a Tinted Live-Work Pad in Silber Terrace

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It’s not exactly over the rainbow, but a tinted-window office over the garage of a 1959 property in Silber Terrace does catch a groovy UV glow. The ranch-style home morphed at some point into a live-work spread on an oversized, unrestricted lot fronting Antoine Dr.’s southbound lane north of I-10. Beyond the back yard’s treeline, Woodlawn Cemetery extends westward views. This mid-November listing comes with a $775,000 asking price.

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by CALwords
Homes for Sale, Interiors, Spring Branch
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11/26/13 3:30pm
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East Montrose
Decked Halls

Around the Bends in a Renovated Montrose Foursquare

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Is the weight of the holiday season and its accompanying festoonage taking a toll on this updated 1929 home in East Montrose? Or was the polished-up property just under a lot of pressure (top) during its listing photo-op? The 3-bedroom, 2-and-a-half-bath property popped up on the market Sunday with a straight-up $840,000 price tag.

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by CALwords
Homes for Sale, Interiors, Montrose
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11/25/13 4:30pm
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Empty Life Forms

A Look at George Mitchell’s Decked-Out Home in The Woodlands, All Cleaned Up and Cleared Out for Sale

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Too late: Someone has already scooped up this house on Wild Ginger Ct., where the founder of The Woodlands, oilman George Mitchell, lived with his wife Cynthia Woods Mitchell from the the time it was constructed in 1983 until his death earlier this year (she died in 2009, but her pavilion lives on). The Grogan’s Mill property overlooking a portion of the golf course at the Woodlands Resort and Conference Center went up for sale quietly earlier this week and was put under contract Thursday. But the property’s still worth gawking at, if only to note our own reactions to a not-so-pretentious 2-story home nestled in the trees — and what it implies about the way the north-of-Houston community’s founder envisioned life there.

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Grogan's Mill, Homes for Sale, Interiors, The Woodlands
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11/22/13 5:00pm
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The Louvered Life

Where the Shutterbug Flew in Woodland Heights

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When a shutterbug crosses a picket line, the results could look like this white-fenced, louver-loving 1920 cottage in Woodland Heights. The well-porched property is on its third run at the market in 5 months. This round, initiated earlier this week by a new agency, sets the price at $550,000. An initial listing of the corner lot cottage in July 2013 was priced at $635,000, though the ask was reduced to $599,000 a month later. A relisting in September floated a $575,000 price tag, but only for a month. (Way back in 1997, the home sold for $229,900.)

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by CALwords
Home Decor, Homes for Sale, Interiors, Woodland Heights
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11/22/13 2:15pm
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