Swamplot Archives by Tag: Decks

Friday, January 18, 2013

On View (or Not) in Sharpstown Country Club Estates

The windows on this 1964 Sharpstown Country Club Estates property showcase a variety of ways of admitting light while altering views in or out. But the windows looking into the back yard are different: The stretch of sound barrier across the back of the lot, blocking the Southwest Fwy., is just a blank canvas. A really big one.

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: Playing with a Full Deck

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Friday, July 27, 2012

Briargrove Park Split-Level Is All Decked Out

A Briargrove Park 1974 contemporary plays up all its angles. The multi-level floor plan carves out a few unexpected spaces inside and out, including a series of decks, patios, and covered porches. Listed earlier this month at $480,000, the piney-woods property is just off a cul-de-sac that’s a block — or 8 homes — from the noise-baffling wall of the West Belt feeder road north of Briar Forest Dr. That places it west of Seagler Rd., the dividing line between the neighborhood’s start in the sixties and its seventies’ buildout.

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