This time last year, I was all set to travel to Houston to tour the first ever MILIEU Showhouse. Do you subscribe!?! There’s nothing else like Milieu! However, a hot spot put a kink in our Texas vacation plans. It is one thing to see impeccable design photos and quite another to experience the spaces in person. When I peeked at the Houston real estate market before we were to depart, I noticed the Showhouse was one of several beautifully built manses with Old World style. Timeless Home Inspiration: Old World New Builds revisits exceptionally lovely newly built Houston homes on the market.
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Timeless Home Inspiration: Old World New Builds
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2535 Inwood Drive
What a stunning newly constructed home by builder Jennifer Hamelet of Mirador Builders! Do you dream of a limestone manor with authentic architectural details, a private vineyard, a gravel motor cart, and bespoke design throughout?
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701 Saddlewood Lane
This Houston home on the market is also new construction (Montecito Builders) with Old World style! Sun room with Nana Wall folding system, cypress ceiling beams, and a two-story dressing room retreat with makeup stations and champagne bar for the books!
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722 E. Friar Tuck Lane
Built in 2018 by Charles W. Ligon, AIA Architects Inc., this impressive stucco and limestone home may take your breath away inside and out. If the jaw dropping beyond lovely kitchen looks familiar, that’s because we peeked at it HERE. It is featured in Leslie Sinclair’s breathtaking book, SEGRETO IMPRESSIONS.
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2164 Chilton Road
Newly constructed, if you admire Old World European elegance mixed with bespoke and modern amenities, you will fall for this timeless Morris Hullinger beauty! This home is also graced with impeccable finishes by Segreto!
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Living Room Tips from a Designer
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LOVED this post! So nice to see aspirational rooms/homes that we couldn’t possibly afford but get so many ideas from!
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EXACTLY! That’s just what I was thinking as I perused these listings – the color stories, mix of materials, use of space…so much to note!
I completely agree with Sandra! I especially love the last house! The use of velvet throughout (especially love the green velvet dining chairs and barstools), the greenery in lovely weathered vessels inside, the open kitchen shelves filled with white and silver, unique art over the fireplaces, the outdoor plants in lovely urns…all so pleasing to the palate! I could look at this for days!
Author
Me too! I too cannot stop staring at the green velvet – there is something so regal and sophisticated about it. And I would not likely gravitate toward it but when you see it used expertly here…goodness gracious, lovely.
WOW….luxury with a capital L!
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I knowwwwww – dripping with quality and high end everything! 🙂