Notes on Building the Right Way
What we have learned about custom homes, restoration, and craftsmanship in Dallas. Written for people who care how a house is made, not just how it looks.
Building a Custom Home in Dallas: The Process, Start to Finish
Most people have been inside a hundred homes and built none. Here is what the path from a first conversation to the day you get the keys actually looks like.
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Restoring a Charles Dilbeck Home: Caring for Dallas’s Most Romantic Architecture
A self-taught designer from Arkansas left Dallas a few hundred houses that feel like nowhere else. Fewer remain every year. Here is how to care for one.
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How to Choose a Custom Home Builder: 12 Questions Worth Asking
Portfolios show you what a builder has finished. The right questions show you what it will be like to build with them.
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Remodel, Add On, or Rebuild? How to Decide What Your Dallas Home Needs
You love the street, the trees, the school. The house is another matter. Here is how to decide whether to renovate it, add to it, or start again.
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Spanish Colonial, Hill Country, Contemporary: Choosing a Style for Your Dallas Home
Style is not a finish you pick at the end. It is a set of decisions about proportion, material, and light that shapes everything else, and it should outlast every trend.
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Why You Should Bring Your Builder In During Design, Not After
The traditional sequence is design first, then bid it out. It is also how beautiful drawings turn into painful redesigns.
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Building in the Park Cities: What Highland Park and University Park Homeowners Should Know
Surrounded by Dallas but governed by neither, the Park Cities have their own rules, their own building departments, and their own expectations of the people who build there.
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Where the Money Goes in a Custom Home Budget (and Where It Should)
The number at the bottom of a bid means little until you understand what is inside it. Here is how to read a custom home budget, and how to protect it.
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Built for North Texas: Clay Soil, Summer Heat, and Spring Storms
Dallas asks a lot of a house: ground that moves, summers that bake, and storms that arrive fast. A home built to last answers all three.
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Additions That Look Like They Were Always There
Everyone has seen the addition that looks like an addition. The best ones make you wonder which part came first.
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