The Big Rooms Carved Out of an Updated Holly Park Home

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The floor plan may qualify as “open,” but rooms take shape nonetheless (top) in a compact 1960 Holly Park home that was listed in late May with a $375,000 asking price. The updated property sits mid-block on a street in the middle of its neighborhood, which is located near Timbergrove Manor, south of W. 18th St. near the West Loop feeder road’s transition into the North Loop.

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Windows in the living (top) and dining (above) areas face north. Access, even for pets, to the 2-car garage and laundry facilities is through a door between the dining table and breakfast bar in the kitchen:

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Cabinetry hits the ceiling and, closer to the floor, includes pint-sized gallery space:

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Unlike the common areas, all 3 bedrooms appear to have kept their original hardwood floors. The master bedroom . . .

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has a full bathroom with tub, but this is the only photo of the room in the listing:

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Secondary bedrooms . . .

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share the 1,182-sq.-ft. home’s other full bathroom:

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A patio with landscaped border squares off the back of the home and leaves a stretch of grass in which the fenced yard’s only other shrubbery screens a meter:

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The home last sold in 2000 for $137K; HCAD indicates the property was renovated in 1997.

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One Comment

  • Very nice family home, but I definitely think they could have done more in the kitchen. There is a lot of wasted space between the island and dining room table. The island could easily be twice as large and still allow for a path that leads to the garage, and with correct staging the dining area could seat 6-8 comfortably (move the buffet underneath the window, add a leaf in the table and pull it out from the wall a bit more toward the dead space in the center). Everything else about this home is just fantastic: decent sized bedrooms, pretty bathrooms, and perfect patio & yard. I’m not familiar with home prices in that area but it seems high when compared with my home in Willowbend (1280 SF, 3 beds, 1.5 baths, nice updates). I would die of happiness if I could sell for anywhere near that price.