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These spring 2019 home tours will open doors to dazzling Dallas houses

Stephanie Hollman home, 3816 Turtle Creek Blvd.

Stephanie and Travis Hollman of The Real Housewives of Dallas will let the public peek inside their Turtle Creek mansion.

Photo courtesy of Turtle Creek Association

There’s nothing that architecture and interior design fans love more than making a weekend of touring fabulous Dallas homes. If you’re in love with North Texas real estate, then you’ll be happy to know that the spring 2019 home tour season is going to be a spectacular one, featuring some of the best in architecture all over Dallas and Fort Worth.

To help you get your schedule in order, we offer a roundup of upcoming spring home tours so you can buy your tickets and make your brunch reservations afterwards. This list will continue to grow, and we will take a closer look inside the featured homes as each tour approaches.

Turtle Creek Association Tour of Homes
April 7, 2019, from 1-5 pm; After Party from 6:30-9 pm
Purchase tickets here.

The Turtle Creek Association, a non-profit organization whose primary focus is to enhance, preserve, and protect Dallas’ 87-acre Turtle Creek Corridor, provides a special look inside three high-rise residences and one single-family home with their 2019 Tour of Homes. Following the tour will be a separately ticketed post tour reception. Of special note on this year's tour: Stephanie and Travis Hollman of The Real Housewives of Dallas will let the public peek inside their $5 million mansion.

Park Cities Historic Preservation Society Historic Home Tour
April 13, from 10 am-3 pm
Tickets available in mid-March at participating Park Cities Tom Thumb stores.

The Mission of the Park Cities Historic and Preservation Society is to preserve and promote the history, architecture, aesthetics, and cultural traditions of the Park Cities. Funds raised help preserve and maintain the Park Cities House at Dallas Heritage Village, support the new PCHPS archives at the University Park Library, fund the Society’s landmarking initiatives, award scholarships to Highland Park High School graduating seniors planning to study architecture or history, and fund the Distinguished Chair for History at Highland Park High School. This year’s tour homes include: 3615 Cornell, 3910 Gillon, 3524 Saint Johns, and 3657 Stratford.

Hollywood Home Tour
April 25-28
Tickets available soon on the website.

This popular annual fundraiser for one of the cutest historic neighborhoods in Dallas — Hollywood Heights/Santa Monica — is a full-weekend event. It features Art in the Park, where you can shop for cute trinkets and beautiful works from local artists while enjoying the vibe of the neighborhood’s Lindsley Park, as well as the home tour, which guides you through the hilly topography of this East Dallas enclave to its quaint traditional and Tudor homes. On this year’s tour, see a full-scale revamp of floral designer Kate Arani’s home at 7006 Santa Monica, completed by Joel Greenwald’s CRE8 Homes.

White Rock Home Tour
April 27-28, from 12-5 pm
Tickets on sale now.

One of East Dallas’ most popular spring tours is back with six new homes to wander through. The two-day tour benefits Hexter Elementary in the Old Lake Highlands neighborhood. Tickets are on sale now, and this year’s tour will feature some spectacular new builds as well as midcentury modern classics. Advance tickets are $15, and the price goes up to $20 per ticket on the day of the tour.

Dallas Builders Association Parade of Homes
May 4
Details available via the Dallas Builders Association soon.

This recently revived annual tour is a fantastic showcase for the top-notch builders of the Dallas Builders Association. The event, which is slated for May 4, is especially intriguing if you’ve been searching for inspiration for a remodel or if you’re building your own home soon. Last year’s tour showed off the high-quality construction of five Dallas Builders Association members. This one is bound to be bigger and better.

Save the date:
Here are other tours you should put on your calendar:

Swiss Avenue Mother’s Day Home Tour: May 11-12

Fairmount Historic District Mother’s Day Tour: May 11-12

AIA Fort Worth Homes Tour: May 18-19

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A version of this story originally was published on CandysDirt.com

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Swedish Fish News

Popular Ikea furniture chain to open 4th Dallas store in Rockwall

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Ikea sign - instantly recognizable

Dallas-Fort Worth is getting a new Ikea store in Rockwall. Located at Stodghill Road and I-30, it'll be the third Ikea in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and is due to open in December 2025.

Ikea is the world's largest furniture retailer, founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad, and known for its simple, modern approach to interior design at an affordable price, its ready-to-assemble furniture, and its amusement-park-like stores.

Ikea will be the anchor in a 65-plus acre mixed-use development with a location chosen for its accessibility not only to the east side of DFW but also to major highways that connect to faraway towns like Texarkana and Little Rock. Rockwall to Texarkana is 155 miles or a 2-hour-and-22-minute drive — surely doable if you're hot to get a great quality mattress at a good price or stock up on Swedish gummy red fish.

According to a release, the store represents Ikea's intention to become more accessible, affordable, and convenient for the many here in the U.S., even those who live in places like Casa View and Mesquite, and the store will offer a new way of reaching customers both in-store and digitally.

The store's footprint is 108,000 square feet — almost a third smaller than the existing locations in Frisco and Grand Prairie, which both span 293,000-plus square feet (although Grand Prairie is one story while Frisco is two-story). There's also a pickup-style store in Southlake that's 10,809 square feet.

“Our expansion goal is simple. We will be where people are, whenever and however they want to experience Ikea," says Ikea U.S. Ceo and Chief Sustainability Officer Javier Quiñones. “We have been testing different store formats to increase customer convenience, make home delivery more cost-efficient, and reach our customers where they live, work, and socialize. IKEA Rockwall represents a key milestone in this ongoing journey.”

Though smaller than the other area behemoths, Rockwall will nonetheless be serving Ikea's trademark meatballs at a new Swedish Deli concept, a Swedish cafe to enjoy meals onsite, and a Swedish Bistro for quick takeaway items that can be enjoyed in the outdoor seating area or at home.

The space will include multiple fully furnished room settings that showcase “local living” solutions reflecting the unique needs of the residents of the local community. Rockwall embroidered pillows, maybe?

Additionally, Ikea Rockwall’s design will include features for improved sustainability, specifically solar power, LEED certified construction, EV chargers, onsite recycling and native plant materials to reduce water consumption.

“We are strongly committed to the communities in which we operate. IKEA Rockwall provides an even more seamless omnichannel shopping experience throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, and we look forward to welcoming residents and surrounding neighbors to this new Ikea experience,” says Ikea U.S. Area Market Manager Rob Parsons.

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