Bethany Erickson

Craig Ellwood Home Perched on LA Hillside Now On the Market

By Bethany Erickson | July 8, 2018 | Comments Off on Craig Ellwood Home Perched on LA Hillside Now On the Market

Craig Ellwood wasn’t always Craig Ellwood, but the Clarendon, Texas, native became renown under that moniker as he made a name as a premiere modernist architect. His homes, often considered works of art (and rightly so), are perfect blends of spare, midcentury German Bauhaus architecture and the more informal California sensibilities of the state he…

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July Fourth Picks: Sunrise Bay Home Offers Amenities and Lakeside Living

By Bethany Erickson | July 4, 2018 | Comments Off on July Fourth Picks: Sunrise Bay Home Offers Amenities and Lakeside Living

By next Independence Day, you could be grilling at your lakeside home, hopping in your boat on Lake Lewisville with prime seats for fireworks, and spending time cooling off in your pool in between — and we have just the house. This lakefront estate home is in the Sunset Bay community in Little Elm, a…

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On CandysDirt.com: Dinomite Marketing Sells Granbury Home in Five Days

By Bethany Erickson | July 3, 2018 | Comments Off on On CandysDirt.com: Dinomite Marketing Sells Granbury Home in Five Days

Realtor Casey Lewis with Cearnal Realtors has been waiting for a good while to deploy his dinomite marketing strategy — and he finally did in Granbury last week. In fact, when he saur this two-bedroom, one-bath lake house, he also knew that the owners wouldn’t think it was a pterrible idea. Yes, you can see where we’re going with…

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Historical Shelter On the Way To a Lake? Try Shelbyville, Texas.

By Bethany Erickson | July 1, 2018 |

For $350,000 and some elbow grease, someone is going to snag this bed-and-breakfast ready historical shelter on the way to Toledo Bend Lake in Shelbyville, Texas. It’s just a matter of when, and who, not if. The Bickham House, now on the state registry of historic homes, was built around 1885 after the original home…

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Wednesday WTF: It’s Pretty, It’s Terrifying, It’s Pretty Terrifying

By Bethany Erickson | June 27, 2018 | Comments Off on Wednesday WTF: It’s Pretty, It’s Terrifying, It’s Pretty Terrifying

Hi, do you like going on vacation and waking up and achieving that terrifying feeling that you’re about to plumb fall off a mountain? I mean, if you’re a longtime reader of the Wednesday WTF, you probably will say yes because you have a perverse fascination with things that are fascinatingly messed up, so you…

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E. Fay Jones’ Must-See “Butterfly House” Up for Sale

By Bethany Erickson | June 24, 2018 | Comments Off on E. Fay Jones’ Must-See “Butterfly House” Up for Sale

If you’ve spent any time in Arkansas the name E. Fay Jones is probably one of the first names to come to mind when someone mentions midcentury modern homes. In fact, we may have mentioned him once before. If you’re new to Jones’ work, the clean lines and use of natural materials will likely remind…

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