HOUSE TOUR | A Timeless & Traditional Tudor Home in Dallas

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if she's closing in on 100 years which is anyone that's familiar with Dallas we know that's a rarity we like to tear things down so it's a miracle that she has survived uh and I live here with my partner Matthew Wilson and our miniature Dock and Mabel it's um this is a tutor Revival uh so from the outside it's a traditional red brick with the swooping roof line inside a lot of of the original features are still in the house so I have all plaster walls um when you get to the fireplace you'll see a batch shelter fireplace which are fairly rare in Texas and then lots of arches and Crown and meal work and all an original windows so uh you'll see all of that as we go through the house I've made three passes on this house on construction so when I moved in it was 1,400 Square ft a two-bedroom one bath uh that's what I thought I wanted when I bought this house and quickly realized after moving in that it just was too small for me and so uh I've done three additions to the house completing the last one uh just 3 months ago uh I'm a collector uh I've watched all the homeor these shows 99% of your people are collector and we're we're a crazy Bunch so you'll see as you walk through the house there's lots of collections I love bronzes uh I love lamps I can't stop myself from par lamps it's it's like Kryptonite for me uh art is an expensive uh problem for me that I'd like to find a cure for so there's a lot of stuff in this house so I try to temper that collection a couple of ways by Smalls for some reason I'm drawn to the little small things and so you'll see I I try to Corral those into to bookcases or cabinets so it doesn't feel so busy and then um you know for the the Furnishings I would say they're primarily going to be not modern they're current but maybe transitional and so I try to mix that style so hopefully you know you and your viewers see it as that and don't read it as grandma so hopefully I'm fighting the good fight against grandma welcome to my living room uh I am not a fan of homes with no entryways and I bought a house with no entryway so you walk right into the front door into my entryway um it's a old house 100 years old and there are a lot of quirky things about this house I love one of which is the door uh the door is original the all of the arching and all of that when I moved in it had a really bad 70s stained glass in it of daffodils and you know I thought not my favorite but it was a little janky and I tried to repair it and then one night at 2: a.m. I hear the glass breaking and falling to the floor so I just had clear for a while and then a month about a month after it fell out I was at an antique store and walking by and that Dusty thing was sitting on the ground for $20 and I thought what are the chances that that thing will fit brought it home Perfect Fit snapped it in put a little DAP in it and it's been there everywhere so I'm super that's all Bob's handiwork so super handy there um one of the things that I just loved when I bought this house was the original fireplace this is a batch Elder fireplace which is the man who uh developed and handmade all of these tiles Pasadena based guy from about 1903 he was kind of the first to um do high quality goods and advertise them in the way that like Builders were interested in shipping them across country so you'll find pockets of them across the US it's rare as hin teeth to find them in Dallas so I just love this uh and all the detail we have the Cove molding I'm not sure if it catches in here but I love how these ceilings Cove up and give you a little extra height uh on the top of the mantle uh a couple of things you're going to hear today Mom and grandmothers and so Mom uh mom and grandmother highly influenced me both were antique collectors uh you know drug me along on their shopping Expeditions and so that's where kind of this this love of old things comes from when I talk about my mom you'll hear I stole that from her house or she gave it to me uh meaning I said can I have that and she said sure So on the mantle a beautiful French clock bronze clock on a Rouge base that uh I stole out of her pantry of all places and then these I love these are some of my favorite things these are Henry du a uh he is a French bronze Foundry worker from France at the time of Marie Antoinette uh these are are not from Versailles but he did cabinets with uh a lot of the guilt bronze work that went into Versailles so these uh are fantastic these are chenet so if you don't know what a chen is those are fire dogs I can't imagine something so beautiful being down there and getting burned by fires but you can see on the back of them where the uh support went so they could hold their logs so just love these and then above it is an artist that I have collected for a number of years his name is Michael Workman uh and primarily does the American West uh this is an unusual work for him I haven't been able to verify but I believe this may have been a student piece I bought this at a corporate auction who they were getting rid of all their corporate art and and this thing weighs about 300 lb it's it's on steel the under support is still and then all of this paint work is done by um rotary blades acid washes and then patina put on so I just love how that contemporary feel really is a you know an American southwest painting so one of my favorite pieces of art over to the right here we have my monkey um this is um uh Dresden monkey Carl theme was the designer uh he you know worked for M and Dresden um a friend of mine bought one I had to have one and it took me about three years to find it finally found it at auction at Christie's and he's come home to live with me the interesting thing that you'll hear from me is like I bought one monkey and then suddenly monkey started popping up around me and it's like I wasn't even looking for monkeys so as we go through the house you you'll go oh there's another monkey and so that you'll hear that story whether it be bronzes or things like that I'll be like oh I started with one and suddenly I had 50 so um and then as we move into the corner of the living room have a beautiful French desk I don't use it as a desk it's all display one of the things as an art collector I had always wanted was um an old Master painting and um they've gone in and out of fashion even when they're out of fashion they're ridiculously expensive and so this is a old Master painting that I found from a great dealer here in Dallas and uh I bagged and pleated and needled and got the price down and then he let me uh pay it out over a couple of months and so you know finally Bob has an old Master painting so really love that that's agam Menon so it uh copies a deid painting that's over in Fort Worth it's one of my favorite paintings so it was thrilled to get that and then the other thing I lost my grandmother who uh was my uh antique running buddy last year and so I you'll hear me say a couple things this was one of her pieces and it's a champ filet bronze Inkwell uh which I just love and it was one of her favorite things so I'm happy to have it in the house those are te Garden balls that I found um Wisteria was a local Dallas company that was catalog business and they also um were extreme Shopper so they'd shop all over the world and bring back one offs and then manufacture some of you you know reproduce some of the things they had found and so they sold went out of business and sold to another company and so they had their sample sell and these are things these are giant teak balls uh that were supposed to go out into a garden but they never produce them so these are just samples that I thought look great in kind of a dead spot where this stair comes down and doesn't leave me much option all the floors in the house are original and uh as we move through the house the newer parts of the house house uh we matched the uh White Oak these are a particular I think these are 2 and 1/2 in wide and about 2 and A2 inch deep uh tonged and so we found old um goods and married them up and tied them together so yeah throughout the house you have hundredy old hardwood uh floors that still look amazing I think they have some dings and you know scratches and things like that but that's what makes the house great yeah so when I moved in into this house I I think I said to you guys it looked nothing like this and so uh I'm only the fourth owner of this house so 100y old house and I'm the fourth owner and everyone that has lived in this house has really loved it there there are notes that get passed forward to the next owners there's journals of what were done to the house by that owner uh sometimes in their house uh some of the blueprints are still here and so um when I bought from the last owner she had just done amazing the stuff I hate doing like the Mechanicals the roof all the hard stuff was done uh but all the walls were like a terracotta uh she had beautiful taste but it was like walking in either to a Santa Fe or a toos PE peblo so imagine terracotta walls a lot of um terracotta down on the floors in the bath black and white Indian photographs and so very light and different and so I knew I wanted something different and so I wanted historic colors and where we had the opportunity to subtly um I'll tell you the story where because no one ever gets it I I wait for them to pick it up and they never get it so in all the original parts of the house uh from 1926 I did go with this green which is a custom color that I developed for and then had Benjamin Moore make and the same with this kind of mustardy gold trim I wanted historical trim colors and the brown on the fireplace as we mooved through the house anything that was added to uh or as a new addition I flipped and so the walls are historic colors custom uh made for me but all of the trim work will be white and so that's the indication that those rooms are new these are a Dallas artist called Carmen menza and she does light box installations in all different sizes I have three so you'll see another one in another part of the house I love them they're unexpected uh they're not colors that I decorate with which I love because again I think art should be uh different you'll see none of my art makes sense with each other they don't talk well to each other and I like that about about them they kind of influence each other so she has a secret of these I know her secret uh I only know because one of them had to be repaired and I got to look in it but uh when you'll see it face on it it it moves depending on on where you're standing so they're two of my favorite things they were gifts from my partner Matthew for one of my birthdays so they're just fantastic she does great work all right now we're going to go into my music room follow me all right so now we're in my music room which I think is a little grandiose this room is Maybe 7 by 11 so why don't we call it like the piano porch because again old house this would have been the original open porch and so uh there would have been uh French doors where we walked through and all these windows have been added to enclose it so it's a small room but it does fit the grand piano which was my first real purchase uh when I graduated from high school uh I had a relative who was tired of the piano I play and um so she offered it to me and I paid it out for like two years and so I felt like I was a real adult when I bought my uh first grand piano my only grand piano uh things that in here I love these were little gifts from my partner Matthew these are from a dallus sculptor uh Brad oldum uh the brother of Todd oldum the fashion designer and he does all of these birds and uh walking mans and you'll see uh giant ones around the city uh that are public in St ation pieces so I love those uh this I painted uh one of my degrees is in Fine Art and so I painted this so this is one of mine I wouldn't say I love it but I like it um grandmother's Waterford chandeliers uh that I've moved at every house that I've had so it's been in dining rooms entryways now it's in the piano porch it will follow me everywhere um and then I just love this painting here it's a French artist uh his name is Rigo uh you'll see a couple of them in the house but he's most known he does some beach scenes very casual loose beach scenes in the impressionist style but this one is what he's really known for which are Cathedral interiors and I just love the darkness you know if you've been into a cathedral in in any part of the continent you know you're walk in and if it's a cloudy day it's dark and then the shaft of light hits these windows and just illuminates so I love the nuns and I love the stained glass and all the detail work of the masonry and and joiny vaults and everything like that so one of my favorite paintings and then on these shelves I have to say I didn't buy one thing that is on these shelves and I didn't realize it until I was dusting these damn things the other night uh because there just a lot to dust in this room uh these all came from my mother and so um I think I said one time in passing I'm going to do some shelves in Alabaster and white stone and thus it began and so every time I went home something new was produced where she found it at a garage sale a estate sale and so you know these just came in a couple weeks ago she had found those at an antique mall and so Mom has has given me all of these white tan and uh beige things that I think work really well in here uh this statue uh grandmother as I said I lost my grandmother uh last year she she's 97 years old and was a Spitfire to the end and so this was on one of her banisters and at one time would have uh been lit for gas and so before electricity there would have been an attachment here and so this would have been a light uh to provide some Illumination in here oh and then I forgot you know the the the count your pennies and get what you want I think I had read an architectural digest when I might have been 23 or 24 and there was a photograph I don't even remember whose apartment was but they had this Stark analou carpet and I just thought one day I'm going to have that and so a couple of years ago I saved my pennies and and got this put down in the piano porch and as always is the case you have a little too much and they were getting ready to take it out and said oh no no this was this is like gold you you're not taking any of the scraps away I'll find something to do with these and and I lived with them for a couple of months thinking what am I going to do with this it's like uh Golden Fleece uh and then I made the decision well maybe I'll just seam it and put it up the stairs and so I was lucky to get a twofer I got a floor and a runner so you'll see the runner as we go upstairs in a little bit when I walked in well I guess I should back out back up just a little bit um like I say I I moved every two or three years I'd find a house redo it flip it and go to the new Act to the next house and always in this part of town I'm in the Lakewood area of Dallas which is about one mile away from White Rock Lake which is kind of the crown jewel of Dallas for those of us that like to walk and run and bike and the arborium is also there so I've always lived in the area but had never lived in a tutor which this area is really known for and so I put my uh prior house on the market and it surprised me it sold uh before it hit the market and and so the wrinkle was they wanted it in 2 and 1/2 weeks and so or the deal was off so I have a fantastic realtor we looked at 66 houses in six days and nothing F you know met my needs and um this was the last house we looked at and we walked in and it didn't look like this but we walked in and I immediately said I can make this work and so made the offer and moved in three weeks later [Music] all right now we're in my dining room which is a new edition for me this until about three or four months ago was our formal living room um as I've said I've done three additions on this house uh over time and so until three or four months ago traditional living room in here when we had people over to dine uh we completely emptied this room and brought in a table that we have in storage and chairs that were in storage and and did that so it was a real um Commitment if you were going to have a dinner party so we're thrilled um to have a dedicated dining space and obviously we're getting ready for a party we didn't clean this house for homeworthy and not get it ready for a party so we're having a little dinner party tomorrow night so uh things I love in this room um you're about to see as we move into the butler's pantry uh Bob and Matthew like stuff and we really like dishes silver Crystal any things to deal with table and so this was one of my first purchases in China refine China which is the Royal Crown Darby old deari um and I just love that and paired it with mojer uh which is German glass uh Chargers and then salad plates silver is Grand Baroque all of the glasswar is uh Waterford mave um and so just love the table stuff so you'll see we have about 25 sets of China uh so you know it depends on who we're having and what they've seen uh sometimes it's all on white sometimes it's blue and white So today we're Crown Derby a little more um official uh love this light fixture this was an antique French fixture that was a candelier meaning originally had no electricity it just burned off candles and I just love the subtle uh Shimmer of those amethyst glass beads you don't see those that often anymore so was thrilled to find those and this was in the dustiest antique mall you can imagine with the most desperate things you can imagine meaning like um toilet tissue holder things that your grandma had knitted and so this this stuck out like a sore thumb and we we went back four or five times and you know kept negotiating kept negotiating finally they lost their lease and they needed to negotiate so that's the new addition for us uh with the dining room so love that piece and then these uh a pair of Baker chests uh antique Baker for Baker I should say and then an antique sideboard Baker piece over there so got a little matchy matchy but they're from different collections which is fine uh other things you know that I love in here we needed a pair of good mirrors in the dining room they're surprisingly hard to find antique ones or pairs are impossible if you do find them they're prohibited expensive so I found um this is um vintage Carvers I can't remember where they're out of but they still do all of their carving by hand all of their bevel work by hand and they still do this beautiful water guilt uh on all of their frames and mirrors so I just think they're beautiful they look appropriate they go with the furniture and they're just a little different um and then the elephant in the room which are these tacky tacky fantastic lamps I just love these things and we bought them uh when we were getting this dining room we started looking for lamps and I said at the beginning I've never met a lamp I didn't like so these we thought were just like enough uh to give some gravitas to this dining room so they're over the top but we love them so uh that's them uh across the sideboard back there you heard me say um I start with a monkey and then suddenly monkeys follow me around I'm I may be off but I would say eight months ago besides this China I didn't own a piece of Amari porcelain um now you see there's one two 3 four five six bottle vases there's a lot of Amari in this room and in this case and as we move through the house you'll see even more so now we collect Amari because everywhere we go there's a piece of Amari so you got to buy it um and so we love having people over it's so great uh to be able to have the space and to be able to leave it out and set up a couple of days early and so it's worked really well for us so it's a great room and at night it glows so we really love the Space Furniture piece another Furniture piece in the room is this French this is actually a French bookcase uh this is a kind of a story that's like how did it end up there uh I had a friend that was moving from Dallas to New Mexico and so she felt her house in New Mexico was going to be much more new Mexican um and so she sold all of her high French and you know fussier things so she had this for sale my mom bought it um and and put it in her house and um when I moved into this house I said hey Mom you know that that cabinet would be just perfect for for my room and she said well what am I getting so we traded I had uh an antique cabinet that was about twice as big as this which she needed the bigger cabinet so this comes from my mom through a friend that she bought it and so it holds a ton of you know stuff again I said we collect things and so I try to Coral them where they're just not over every tabletop so you know and here you'll find more Ari you'll find perryan you'll find perryan through out the house which perion we just love it's you know it's um was made during the Victorian age and it was the poor man's marble and so they they did statues and bus of just everybody and so you name it and there's a bus so uh it's scattered throughout the house and then I have an enormous collection of again it started with one these porcupine quill boxes they were made in India when the British occupied India the soldiers would make these and send them home as momentos and so they come in all sizes and shapes and so I've got way too many of them um but you'll see more of those throughout the house and then of course more of the bottle vases again we started I think with one and we're up to about 42 of those now so yeah so tomorrow night we're having uh two neighbor couples that's you know one of the things I absolutely love about this neighborhood is we are friends with our neighbors good friends and so uh we're having neighbors across two sets across the street and separate houses come over tomorrow uh we don't entertain we're not informal people so even when we try to be inal and set like a white table a tablescape emerges and so uh I would say we're a little more formal so this table obviously is is a little more formal uh the normal I would say I cut it down a little bit by doing not traditional flowers so doing more of the the plants um and just keeping it kind of simple and organic but uh the meal we're having a homemade gaspacho it's one of the things I can do and I do pretty well and then we're doing a gladly salad which if you've never had one you should look it up uh it's I think it's at the builtmore hotel in Arizona and it is the most beautiful salad you can make it in advance which is great if you're doing a dinner party and then it's beautiful it's sectioned in different ingredients and then you top it with whatever your guest prefers so like we're doing to smoke salmon and chicken option for them and so then fresh bread lots of wine champagne and other drinks and then a great uh trifle for dessert so uh high and low I would say [Music] all right so now if you'll follow me we're going to go through to the butler's Pantry so this is my Butler's pantry and during the renovation this recent renovation this was really our only eating area so this was a small Bank hat with a small table couple of Windows here um so wasn't really functional for us it was not easy for folks to get in uh or get out of the bank hat and so we just didn't utilize it much and then um I just decided it would make a fantastic uh Butler's Pantry for us and as I said in the dining room we're collectors of of table wear and things like that and so prior to having this you know we had dishes under beds and in Cabin it's all over the house and so now we get to store and see the stuff that we use so we're finding we are using things more often so um you know in here uh we have all of the different uh silver candlesticks you know this is a new uh Ed well that's not the one this is a new edition that I just po that's an antique uh Royal Crown Derby got to figure out one for that and then Wedgewood madei and Wedgewood and gold ice and I think there's like five other there but what it did is it got a super or I'm organized if you hadn't told but got me super organized so like these drawers you know able to do the cut glass in a way I open it and I can see it and immediately know what I'm going to use and so this has just worked out beautifully for us this is original to the house the one part of the storage that's original so you know all of the the glass wear goes in here so works out really well for it and uh this was a major one wouldn't think this was as major as it was but I talked about how heavy the plaster work is in this house and literally in this Butler's Pantry it was raised in Parts it was like mering almost in parts and so we went through the painful process of sanding the hallway the butler's pantry and the kitchen down to accept wallpaper and I just love it this is the TBO uh and it doesn't show in this light but maybe when we get in the hallway it has just a slight little bit of gold Shimmer and you know as you've seen I like a little bit of gold or a lot uh so I like that kind of ju toos of the grass cloth and then that kind of gold thread coming through um love this little French snow ske it's by juules zerve I have a couple of his uh paintings uh and I just love how it captures I've been there uh during that time of year where it looked like that so it reminds me of the journey and then this girl is interesting to me I love her solid marble heavy as as I'll get out and I got her and there were three others so she spring there was fall winter and summer and so they sat on four pillars of a garden and so I got spring and she used to live in the GU in my garden and then I brought her in at this house and then of course for all of us um that drink uh constant bar makes it easy for when you have guests over they can serve themselves uh just say send them in here and serve themselves and then as you see more Amari more peran again a year ago I don't think I had a piece of this so it's just it's finding me um and then you know I I don't like to talk about you know super Bargains but this one's a super bargain this alabas F uh pendant weighs about 150 lbs and that my mother I was uh went to see on Sunday and walking through her garage through her pile of stuff she had bought this week and that was there and I said I'm going to take that and she said okay you owe me $2 I I bought that at a thrift store for $2 so uh it's moved with me from every house and I it's to me it's the perfect fixture in this house with that warm yellow gold that I just love that light I don't like unadorned space unfortunately uh I walk into these beautiful modern homes I have friends you know and they have like one book and one beautiful candle and I think I want to live that way and then I just think well what are you going to do with all your stuff and so I love it I just know it's not the way I'm going to live so I don't like to have a blank backsplash and so I found these antique watercolors and I think they're I think they're Croatia or maybe their Prague uh but I just liked that there were four of them um I had them reframed in more of a little contemporary matte style um and just love kind of the interest so you'll see art hung in unconventional places as we move to the house because as you're a collector you run out of space and you got to find new places to hang things it's it's a big secret I'm not sure I can share that with you it's command strips I don't know what we did before command strips so so that's how they're hung they're the the kind that are uh not a hook they're velcro to velcro sticky on both sides stick press stay all right so now we're going to go into the kitchen so follow me this way so as I told you when I moved into this house it was, 1400 Square ft two bedroom one bath tiny and it was just me at that point so I thought I can make this work so this was the original footprint of the the kitchen um so there the the uh refrigerator was here but was not a u built in and so recently had that done just to clean up the space and so kitchen went through this last remodel just kind of a light refresh so repainting the cabinets this is a custom historical color that I made up for benjam made and Benjamin more made for me uh so we repainted in the same thing uh but I did take the opportunity to upgrade uh the countertops the original they weren't original but they had Walnut countertops and while they were beautiful I'm not a cooker but my partner Matthew Cooks every night and they just are problematic they they do everything that a person with OCD hates they stain they you know they show dust I they just drw me crazy uh but I did have a beautiful antique French backsplash tile all hand painted and unfortunately there wasn't enough to carry forward so just went with quartz uh it's indestructible it works well for his hot pans his cutting anything you can do I'm a kind of a crafter so I come in here and do things on it and so far we haven't been able to damage it as of yet so it's worked really well for us um this island not an island um I think it was a desk but this was something that was in the house when I bought it and so when I walked into the house I thought what are the chances I'm going to find I didn't want something new and slick and shiny again not a cook so I more care about the look than the functionality sometimes uh but loved this antique um table from Mexico it's about 250 years old uh and so we use it as our Island and it has drawers in it that holds Bill bills so one for Matthew one for me and you know not very functional for cutting or anything like that but hold stuff and at a dinner party you know you can pile a trudie board or something something like that on there so um we love this and I'm so glad I was able to keep that with a house um these two pieces of art here uh are two of my favorite things uh I'll show you in a moment the very first uh piece of real art I bought these were my number two I think I was 18 um and they're carved Ivory uh so they're unusual they're Elizabeth and Court scenes so they have a lot of relief and drama in them I just love them they have a lot of imperfections they've they've cracked over the years and they've been repaired a many a million times but you know I remember the pain of buying them and the excitement of buying them and oh my God how am I going to pay for them and then getting them paid off and think well what I'm going to buy next and so I love them and I I love that they're in the kitchen I you'll find some of my favorite things are in the most unconventional places because I'm in here all the time I want I want to be surrounded by things no matter where I am uh so the Green in here is surprisingly not the same green that you saw in the living room but it is a historic color and so one of the things I feel very strongly about is I don't like going from a red room to a green room to an orange room I'd love to see that house by the way um so I like a consistent color palette through a house now I break a rule um so I always say I know the rules and you got to know the rules before you can break the rules but as you move through the house you'll see these green and beiges you'll see uh in a moment the introduction of a kind of a premon color uh and more creams and I just think that makes each room a little bit different it has its own stamp on it but it's cohesive to the house and I want this house to have warmth and I believe these colors really do warm up the house and so um hopefully people appreciate them I know they're weird colors but I just love them all right and we're just going to continue into the cooking part of the kitchen and so this this probably you know um talk about the third iteration of this house Edition and I guess I should tell I keep saying I've done three the first was I added an on Suite to the to the bedroom the one guest bedroom that was my primary when I moved in we'll see that in a little bit later uh the second edition was more major it was the addition of the second floor which contains the primary bedroom dressing area closet and and bathroom and then the one we just finished about 3 or 4 months ago was really the family room which we'll see in a moment but it refreshed the kitchen and then also it extended the kitchen and that was just necessary to get to the space where we needed the great room so we took the opportunity you know you're going to do it anyway is you know refreshed all the paint uh cleaned up all the hardware stove still on back order for a year um but you know took down the dat microwave vent combo and mve down into technology I I I'm not an embracer of technology to be quite honest so uh but I'm trying to be better so now I have a um microwave that's below the counter area and and slides out so that's new for me uh and then the countertops it really brightened up this kitchen uh those wood countertops while lovely and warm were dark and so I do like this light quartz with just slight veining on it uh and then it gave us just all of this new Cabinetry that we didn't have before because the kitchen would have stopped right here I guess so we gained about another 8 ft of kitchen and Cabinetry and Pantry which is my favorite and then of course uh our Mabel station and so um I know it's ridiculous but I'm just I'm just going to show you Mabel has you know she has her kibble her water she has her closet if you will with all of her turtleneck sweaters uh so all Mel's assortment is there of her dressing and then all of her food so it gave us a chance to just really make the space work for us uh and Mabel who's our daughter um so and then the unexpected thing is I didn't know I wanted a pantry we had gotten very used to just storing stuff and buying fewer things and making more frequent trips to the uh grocery store but you get a pantry and you love a pantry so if you're interested in seeing the pantry here she is so I just love that I can now have adequate supplies of Topo Chu all of my cereals and you know cookies and fruits and then all my white you know kind of Blan desine uh sits up there so when we that's that's primarily dishes and things we use outside and so that's a perfect location for them to live there because it's just a short uh walk outside uh so we love having this space here and this was the original back door by the way so you can see it has the The Wave in it and then we just frosted it um for the pantry and then you heard me say you're going to see art maybe where it's not supposed to be we're still in the kitchen um and so have art here too so just a you know small chest that holds paperwork and keys and things like that but this artist her name is C shadler uh she fascinates me she's a New England artist uh I found her work in Santa Fe but she is one of the few uh painters of this age that is painting with egg tempera and if you're not familiar with that that's what the Renaissance painters used and so they mix their powders with egg yolk and that creates a paint and she paints with single or three hair bore brushes and so you just get this infinite tiny brush work and it probably won't show on camera but like she even goes to the trouble of like in the blonde hair there's like 18 karat gold paint uh to give those highlights so I love him he reminds me in my nephew I bought this painting kind of to Comm commemorate a big 10 year uh milestone for me a personal Milestone so it means a lot to me and then under it I have a Jeff drawing you don't see a lot of drawings by Jeff Coons you know him for his sculptures uh but I bought a small Jeff Coons in one of his limited series you'll see that one in a sec and so while I was talking to to the artist uh he said would you like me to sign something I said absolutely and so he said would you like me to draw something and I said even better and so that was a freebie or get gift with purchase I should say and so had it framed well and so now I can say I have a coon's drawing as well I lead a sales and distribution team for half of North America for a corporation and have done that for about 20 plus years so no I'm I'm not a designer by trade uh nor an architect okay so now we're going to go into the new family room follow me all right so now we're in the family room which is the newest addition to the house uh so for the past 17 years you'll see in a moment uh we lived or our family room was a spare bedroom and so very tiny uh we had a 30in television in there um we have an 85 in television now and I know I've heard everyone rave on their frame TVs and how it doesn't show that it's a TV it's an art I looked at them uh they're great so I'm not I'm not going to talk smack about the frame TV this one just has a better picture and Bob loves TV and this is a TV room and so we're having a big TV so I don't care what it looks like it's a great TV to watch movies on um but I love this room it is exactly what I wanted it to be when I started working with my architect who I've who has been through every iteration of this house with me and I love her because she listens uh she knows the aesthetic that I have she knows it's important to me that everything feel period I do feel like I'm a steward of this house as the fourth owner um I talked about houses around this one being torn down and bigger houses going up so I've done all of these things for my personal enjoyment but also to make sure that this house endures because this neighborhood is changing rapidly and I want this house to survive so this turned out exactly as we wanted it um so I'll just walk you through a couple of things I mean I love the code ceilings you know that was one of the things I thought how can I get a little bit of period detail in the house uh without going crazy so all of the meal work we did in here kind of matches the original meal work and other parts of the house uh so that worked well again moved this kind of funny muddy color in here it's not the Green from another room this actually has much more uh a beigy yellow in it you'll see it pick up through the drapes that has that same greeny beige in the walls um and so it's a different color so as I said as we move through the house the colors talk to each other but they're slightly different and in this room more than any you'll see kind of the emergence of kind of that pin orange coming up through the rugs and the pillows and the throws and then some of some of the art so um there's a lot to talk about in this room kind of piled it high with some of our favorite things since this is where we spend the majority of our time so tons of bronzes in here tons of lamps again never met a lamp I didn't like lots of art um and so I'll just talk about a couple of them um these two pieces well there's how many are in here one two three four five six seven there's seven of these by this artist in this room and his name is Donald rollers uh Wilson and he's from fville Arkansas and he is crazy as a loon and we'll admit that himself so he paints uh these Gothic mythical stories and so you'll see in a moment what I'm talking about so this one you've got the TP with the match coming out of it and then the big match this is part of the narrative so he has a book and all of these characters make up these crazy stories and um so he's a nutcase but I love what he does and I love how he paints he paints like a Renaissance painter um and I'll show you that uh over here with some of with three of them so this guy I'm telling you he's crazy uh you know you've got a dog a monkey and another dog all dressed up this one's in a beanie they all have little stories painted by hand around them they all have names this is Ugly Betty she's one of the main characters that's Patricia Betty's cousin like there's a whole family folklore um in the book about these characters and they just uh crack me up they make me smile every time I walk by them I have some very serious art and these bring me more joy than any piece of art I have because they're just unexpected and they're goofy um and then they're right next to you know not serious but more formal things so oner uh bronze candle holder U funny story on that one I bought that a hundred years ago at Christy's at auction and didn't check the measurements and I asked them to ship it and the shipping was going to be I want to say 10 times the price I bought this thing I didn't pay anything for it and I was going to be up there in two weeks for business so I went up there and it was a lamp and was about 3 and 1/2t Tall so I took it to UPS and then stood there and dismantled this lamp to get it down to this size to be able to ship it so um you know where there's a Wilders away uh and I just love these were new not new but they're new to us these uh Russian Empire bronze and guilt lamps that we got at Muse one of our favorite uh antique places in town and then this artist he's really no longer painting which breaks my heart he's a young guy uh his name's Nick KET and he paints um Ukrainian children uh well before you know the conflict that we're in the middle now but he spent time there and was horrified by like the orphanages and the sadness of the children and so you will see these portraits and I love the you know the cold his closed fist indicating you know struggle or you know whatever he's going through and then that openness of the open palm of you know hope so I just love love that that's one of my very favorite paintings all right so as we move through the room you know you'll if you haven't picked it up and I I think I already told you I love bronzes uh this was a Valentine's Day gift last year I believe and this is a Bustamante he's a a Mexican artist that does just really Whimsical bronze work uh so I love him uh these are reproductions but they are really good reproductions of the the French uh gon t so I love these um these babies these uh needle point chairs we found at the last minute to go in these rooms colors are perfect I love the pattern of them on the pattern of the floor they're comfortable they're deep and they're different I mean they're they're a little Grandy but I think they work you know I talked in here of like um all of my upholstery is going to be a little bit more current and so you know the sofa is a very straightforward sofa the mohare chairs are in a very traditional uh profile as are these little barrel chairs and then the cocktail table and onx uh so very clean Timeless and so I like to throw in uh some antiques where I can um you know these are and there there's two I'll show you the other one in a moment these came from my grandma that I I lost her last year and I coveted these things for 48 years uh I was with her when she bought them I think I was 12 when we bought them yeah I'm 60 so she yeah so I was 12 she bought them they their terracotta French terracotta and their young Napoleon and Josephine so they they would have sat for these uh I've never seen another pair of them in my life and I just love they retain all of their hand painting on them just fabulous detail they creep some people out but I just love them uh and again they just add another conversation point in the room so in the great room you know we've walked through what the living room dining room Butler's Pantry kitchen this house as you'll see it meanders it's a deceiving house from the curb it still looks like a, 1400 foot house people are surprised they get in and we kind of wander and they're like oh there's another room and it leads to another room in another room uh and we talked about that the architect and I talked really um thoughtfully about should we open up some more walls and uh two reasons no I decided no number two number one I was already 30% over my estimate of what I was comfortable with so I wasn't looking to add costs and two I thought that took away from what I was trying to do with the house and what I mean by that is keep it as true to its original function as one could so uh like listen these houses people live in them um each owner puts their own stamp on them I probably have put the biggest stamp on it of any owners but I hope that you know the viewers come away and go that makes sense you know the rooms do flow you know it's not disjointed you don't go into this huge family room that's open to the kitchen only then to go back into these kind of rabbity rooms so we we were really thoughtful about that and I hope it comes through in this room some of my furniture uh favorite Furniture pieces say this little small table it's a shagrin and bronze and it's the uh designers are R and Y Austy out of Paris and they just do quirky tables um lots of boxes and vessels but they always use unusual materials in kind of a a an a way that hasn't been used before so that was a Valentine's present from Matthew maybe 5 years ago and I just love it it it's again you know you look for those things that are a little funkier that can play well with the antique and I thought that was perfect it gave it you know a little bit more modern contemporary but still they they talk to each other and of course on the table I told you monkeys were going to become a thing there's a monkey so there's two I started with one and there's one you'll see in another talked about my love of bronzes and again have you know three bronzes here of varying ages I love the bronzes of animals so those are the ones I really try to look for but any bronze I'll buy to be quite honest moving through the room again another monkey uh guilt bronze I think this one was an ink well at one time um purchased this at Nick Brock uh he just has the most beautiful antiques of all Dallas so if you need something very special highly recommend shopping at at ncks uh so I got that there uh some cased Italian glass I love kind of the thickness of that then the star of the room in my opinion is the Jeff Coons uh that is the Balloon Bunny and that's produced by burn Ando so while that looks like a Balloon Bunny or a metal balloon buddy that's actually porcelain uh with that finish placed on it so I just love that and that's where I met Mr Coons and ended up with the drawing so I feel really fortunate to have that and again it's one of those pieces that people ask about they're like and they always do it like they don't want to insult you but they're like is that a balloon you know that kind of tone is that a balloon what is that so I love that opportunity to start a story um and then again the pair to Josephine Napoleon over here again inherited from my grandmother last year and then the last piece in the room that I wanted to highlight was this this case I am not a person that likes display cases uh I fight against them I don't like them this was my grandmother's um and it's a nice specimen it's a Chinese chip andelle which are rare um it's small which is rare and you know no one else in the family wanted it and I thought well I didn't want it just to to go to auction so I thought well I'll find a home for it and lo and behold it fits perfectly there and then what it did that I never even thought it holds all of these little Treasures that I like to collect but you know on their own they're just one small thing but you put them in a cabinet like this and suddenly you have collection so you know these are all bronze um and they use these as wax seals so when you used to write letters and seal them you would hot wax and in these would put your initials in them so I love collecting those some small Ivory pieces and then these of all things um my aunt at one time collected Judith Liber Handbags and so I thought they were so unique and so beautiful I thought well I'm going to buy some of the pill boxes they look like little sculptures and so on the bottom shelves are all those Judith Liber uh pill boxes I think they look like little pieces of jewelry so I just love the sparkle that they give in the room so I ended up loving that cabinet so try it sometimes you'll like it you know when we built this family room it it served a couple of purposes or I wanted it to serve a couple of purposes number one I wanted a giant TV I figured at 60 years old I want a big TV so it seems ridiculous to build a room for a TV but that's how my mind works sometimes Matthew Cooks every night and he's an amazing cook and the old setup I was on the other side of the house we couldn't talk and so now we're able to have a conversation while I'm sitting here watching television while he's cooking dinner for me and then the third was it gave us easy access to the backyard and we entertained well we're outside all the time if we're not uh working we're working outside in the garden and so and we entertain a lot outside so this room granted Us number one it created a very nice Courtyard uh it also connected the guest house so now my office I don't have to walk outside in the rain uh but it created a kind of lovely I'm going to say New Orleans e uh Courtyard so I'd love to show that to you guys next you know to me the the personality the home comes from the owner so while I say I fight against uh Grandma taste you know I'm drawn to old things and I'm the one living here uh so I don't make apologies and I don't think anyone should if you love what's in your home or love your home then that's makes it your home and so um I love uh I travel a lot for work and so after after a week out of town uh I love coming home and I open the door and it's quiet and it's warm and my family's here my dogs here um and I It's My Sanctuary so it's my safe quiet [Music] place all right so now we're out in our Courtyard you know this was a space we weren't quite sure what was going to come because we had a really great siiz backyard post this Edition so imagine this not being here in this all being yard so we had a nice size yard and you know one of the things we were concerned about is what are you going to have left over and we just got lucky so uh what I decided previously this was Turf uh and flower beds and lots of curving more English in style and so and I I hate that it's February in Texas there's not a lot of things blooming right now and it's a little Bleak out here but you get the gist so when construction started we kind of didn't know what we would end up uh back here with and you know we lost a lot of plants plants had to be moved um it's it destroys your Landscaping construction and so I took the opportunity to rethink the space and so um when we realized we had more space than we need or than we thought we might I thought well let's make this more like a New Orleans Courtyard so you'll see we put down all of the and there I had some just very smaller area so found more of this great Chicago antique uh brick so again it instantly ages the space so it's not brand new looking I wish I were here in like a month because all of this furniture goes away uh and all new pich uh hospitality suite furniture is coming out here so come back uh but we do entertain a lot out here so you know formal or informal dinner parties out here um primarily a little more casual blues and whites and white tables and things like that um and then I'm always on the hunt for unusual Garden things so you'll see over here this is an antique armaly uh which is how they would have you know uh measured time and and astral positions at time uh you know I warned you at the beginning as this thing I'm a little bit of a thief when it comes to my mom uh two of these French statues uh in the corner uh she had just found those at a garage sale and I was out there and I said those are going in the back of the car and so those came home with me so and this was a birthday present from my mom several years ago uh bronze Fountain she was in a fountain for probably six years and then once we built this Courtyard had her plumbed and dropped the the reservoir in there and so now she's great now I have to admit on conference calls I always have to close the door because people are like you're in the bathroom and I'm like I swear that's a fountain that's not me in the bathroom so uh love that and then I love anything Victorian and we were recently in Fredericksburg last month and I found this just fantastic Victorian plant stand I know some people are like uh gross chippy iron but I just love it uh and I have you know containers throughout the garden um they're cast iron they're heavy they have substance and they hold flowers beautifully so you'll see them dotted throughout the garden so come back in summer or fall and I guarantee you it's color everywhere right now kind of bland I love the warmth of the house I love it's it's a quirky house uh in in one SE second I think God I'd love to sell this house and build a brand new home from scratch I've never owned a new home that I've built I've always rehabbed homes um and so I've grown to really love the quirks of this house um you know all of the windows are original except for the additions they required new windows uh but all the original windows are here with the wavy glass in most places I went back on the additions and put in French ret French restoration glass to kind of mimic uh that old glass work but you know you know you'll see uh uneven plaster in these houses uh as they've been repaired over the years uh a little heavier finish on the wall than we'd probably prefer modern days it is what it is um there's level changes in this house so if you're a clutz me uh you have to be conscious of those things and it's not an open concept house uh so that works really well for us we like delineated spaces and so uh and you'll see you know I said earlier we've made three additions to this house the latest one is a great room family room whatever you want to call it um and that did kind of open up our living in the house but it is definitely a segmented house and and I think uh post well during Co and postco people really started looking for that as you know you had multiple people at home and each needing dedicated quiet workspace [Music] all right so now we're going up to the primary bedroom I'm going to pause here on this stairwell just to call out a couple of things number one my cause figures I love those again those are a little more attempt at Contemporary Art on these acrylic bases but you know the real story here is this monster painting and Bob bought this and read the dimensions but apparently didn't comprehend the dimensions so I wanted it's a Texas artist last name Gonzalez and this was hanging in the Seagrams building in New York and they did a de acquisition sale at SBE or Christies I can't remember anyway I bought it um and went to pick this thing up in my SUV and it wouldn't fit so then I bought I went and rented a U-Haul and it still didn't fit so I had to buy the largest U-Haul so word of warning check the the sizes now I was lucky that it fit here but otherwise I would have had a 6ot x6t painting guess I could have made wallpaper with it so check your Dimensions all right so now we're in the primary bedroom uh this was the second addition I did to the house so all that we're going to see upstairs all that exists is the primary bedroom dressing area closet and bathroom so this is just our space um and I wanted a space where I could Retreat and you know I was just living here by myself but I don't know what I was retreating from but I thought you know there will come a time where I want some separate space and so I love the idea of being able to get a seating area in here the other thing you know that we talked about in this room was you go into these old houses and you come up into the attic spaces and you get these wonky ceilings and you know you're walking into a slant or there's a gate that's there's just a lot of unusable space and so my architect and I really talked and thought through of how we would get this and not have that so you know the downstairs they're 12T ceilings we just have 8 ft up here we do have one weird angle so that's the exterior roof climbing uh but to get this uh Mass with no sort of weirdness in it uh we lift we cut the roof of the house off and lifted the roof 7 feet and so that allows us to really make it look like a room and not like a attic conversion so up here you know my goal was quiet layers upon layers of creams and Golds and whites um I wanted it to be very quiet um the bedding has to wear like iron we have a four-year-old uh miniature doxin named Mabel that you'll see running around and she sleeps with us as all your dog should and so I love this bedding this is an GES and it's all silk but it's washable silk and so whatever happens to this and believe me every month anyone that owns a dog has been awoken at 3:00 a.m. by the famous you know what's coming and so these can be washed and wear like iron so I just love her her Linens it's like top quality but just impervious to anything um the painting over the bed is the one roller Wilson that is not downstairs um in the family room that's where the rest of them are and I just this one is my favorite I love the cats I love the one that's smoking uh and the bee and you know you I'm not going to take the time but there's their story of what they're going through at the moment hand painted around the the frame so again just a crazy artist who I love um over here this is I consider my best painting um this artist is a Russian artist named Igor melov I have this one and the one uh to the right and he primarily paints uh children from war torn countries um and so you'll see a lot of melancholy uh they're not happy children uh so he Paints the the struggles that they go through and his work is just beautiful again he's one of those artists that paints with a very small haired brush to get infinite detail um and I just there's just something about it that grabs me um you know the weird things that I like to collect that bring a little bit of humor this is I love this trend of these um contemporary artists doing lines um for other companies and so this is the hos Brothers they do these enormous weird monster chairs uh but they did this for lob J and so you know that's an affordable way of getting a piece of art by an artist that may be out of your means otherwise um and then over here you know I told you I will mix things up these are all you know with the exception of this uh cat painting all of these are by Two Brothers Seth and Simon Wier um and they paint differently um so I thought that was unique that I found a pair of painting Brothers um and then I just mixed it in with I got this at a garage sale for 25 cents and it's an interior of a cathedral we saw I like that in finer paintings downstairs and so I thought you know what let's mix that in so I thought that was a nice addition to the room so I just love like this tonality of the room um you know there's burlap there's velvet there's this Jud seagrass there's onx there's brass there's silk but it all ties together because it's all very tonal okay now we're going to take a look at the dressing room and my closet so my closet small But Mighty you know when I built this Edition I wanted a big closet and this felt really large when I built that um you know I was over you're always over budget so looking back I should have made this closet even bigger and and done things now that I'd like to do but it works um you're probably telling now I don't wear a lot of color uh you'll see I wear Navy black tan gray and pretty much solids I think there may be six plaid shirts up there um unless I get into dinner jackets and then of course I love a good dinner jacket so you know people say I look like an Oscar statue when I wear that and then of course the real sickness is shoes so for a guy I have a lot of shoes and um I'm not going to apologize I like them home is My Sanctuary it's my playground uh it's my experimental Place uh I have no fear of trying things uh you're going to see some rooms that um I'm breaking some rules or or things that are not considered fashionable right now I don't care I like it and it's all a unique problem that we'll talk about when we get into those rooms and so uh home for me is is a place for me to be myself to do what I want uh to surround myself with friends and family it's we live somewhat formally but I'd like to say we're formally informal meaning there's us there's there's nice things in the house but nothing's too precious put a drink down pick something up look at it ask the question uh we like talking about the things that we collect so to me it's you know my quiet space and then it's a space that I can bring in friends and family and kind 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