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French Country Style
French Country Style In recent years, there has been much comparison made between the landscape of the Hill Country and that of Provence. The Garrigue scrubland of the Provençal countryside with its calcareous plateaus of limestone rich soils composed of...
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Green Design in Traditional Garb
Green Design in Traditional Garb This English Manor Style House has all the details of a country residence you might expect to find in the southern counties of England: Gothic arch entry with carved stone finial and crockets, half-timbering with...
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Queen Anne Shingle Style
Queen Anne Shingle Style Back in 1982, Dallas/Ft. Worth Home and Garden Magazine asked me to write an article on the history of the evolution of residential architecture “styles” in America. After gladly accepting the assignment, I asked my good...
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Texas Regional Design
Last Month we featured a Louisiana Acadian Plantation Cottage, this month we are all Texan! Our clients selected Cross Pines, a preserve-type wilderness, land development in East Texas near Mineola as the place to build their vacation cabin. Cross Pines...