Mountain Homes

Vacation for a Cause: A Breckenridge Home Stay Will Benefit Dallas CASA

By valeriejarvie | March 14, 2017 |

Here’s another sweet opportunity to vacation for a cause: a one-week stay in a mountain home in Breckenridge, Colorado, is among the auction items coming up at the 10th annual Dallas CASA Cherish the Children luncheon April 5 at the Fairmont Dallas. The luncheon raising funds for the abused and neglected children served by Dallas…

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Montana Modern: New Homes in Big Sky

By valeriejarvie | January 24, 2017 |

Texans love the fierce, independent spirit, wide-open spaces, and natural beauty of Montana. The fourth-largest state has long been a favored vacation home setting for folks from North Texas, made even better last summer when American Airlines instituted daily nonstop seasonal flights to Bozeman Yellowstone Airport, the gateway to the area known as “Big Sky,”…

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Leave Your Cares on Butterfly Wings on Denman Island, British Columbia

By Jon Anderson | January 18, 2017 | Comments Off on Leave Your Cares on Butterfly Wings on Denman Island, British Columbia

Do you believe a vacation home is a refuge to literally get away from it all?  Perhaps the lush landscape of the Pacific Northwest calls to you, but Seattle has become too “Microsoft Millionaire” for you.  How about hopping across the Canadian border to one of the Gulf Islands between the mainland of British Columbia…

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Rocky Mountain Renovation: Christy Rost’s Award-Winning Breckenridge Home

By valeriejarvie | November 2, 2016 |

If you follow television and radio chefs and cooking teachers, you’re likely to be familiar with Christy Rost, who hosted the Texas-based television cooking and lifestyle show Just Like Home for 12 years, and a PBS special in 2009 that has become a Thanksgiving tradition, re-airing nationally every November since. Rost and her husband, Randy, maintain a home in…

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Aspen’s Residences at The Little Nell — Uber-luxury and Location, Location, Location

By valeriejarvie | October 17, 2016 |

    Seven weeks ago while visiting Denver, we decided on making a quick road trip to Aspen for a night. As always, I was awestruck by the beauty of the Colorado roadways — rugged rocks, lush green forests, blue skies, scenic vistas, not a speck of litter in sight during several hours of driving.…

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Own the Coolest Piece of Wyoming at the Snake River Sporting Club, Where It’s 50 Degrees Right Now

By Candy Evans | July 15, 2016 |

  Wyoming real estate may be hot, but the temperature is a whole lot cooler up there. And Texans just love it, including our Governor, who had an unfortunate mishap there involving hot water. And if you saw Ebby’s latest Grande Vie magazine, you may have seen my latest vacation home story on the Snake…

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