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‘Trust your body’
Parkland nurse hikes mountain & walks marathon to raise awareness of ovarian cancer
What could those symptoms mean? Lakewood Heights neighbor Nicole Moler, who works at Parkland Health managing advanced practice for surgery specialties and neurosciences, thought she was transitioning into menopause. She actually had uterine and ovarian cancer.
Moler was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in August 2017. A couple of months before then, she had gone to her gynecologist after several instances of abnormal bleeding. As she was preparing for an elective hysterectomy, her doctor performed an endometrial biopsy and determined she had uterine cancer. While waiting for an appointment with a gynecologic oncologist, she experienced bloating and abdominal pain, but also weight loss. After running through scans with the oncologist, a 10-centimeter ovarian tumor was found.
The news was shocking. Moler didn’t think she was at risk for ovarian cancer. She had children, she did not test positive for BRCA gene mutations, and she didn’t have a family history of the disease. She was only 45 years old.
“I take care of a lot of brain cancer and spine cancer (patients), and so when you take care of that, you always think that it’s not going to ever be you,” she says. “You’re never going to be the patient.”
Who knew that years later she would be summiting Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for fellow ovarian cancer survivors?
Moler quickly moved into surgery after she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, especially since she had a ruptured tumor and signs of peritonitis (inflamed abdomen). Her elective hysterectomy that was going to be performed robotically turned into a radical hysterectomy with a big incision. After that, she was
prescribed six rounds of chemotherapy. During this time, her community at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church rallied around her by organizing meal trains and making sure her boys got to and from middle school. She also had a group of friends that stayed by her side during her chemotherapy sessions and children praying for her in her boys’ classes at St. Thomas Aquinas.
“I don’t think I could have done it otherwise,” Moler says about the community aid.
Her family was there for her as well. Despite their fears, Moler says her children helped out at home while she was going through treatment.
“I also was pretty strong in my faith and kind of was preparing myself for the worst, as far as if it’s my time, it’s going to be my time, and how do I prepare my boys and my husband for that,” she says. “But also, I wasn’t going to give up.” Moler’s surgery and treatment went about as well as it could have, save for her initial allergic reaction to one of the chemotherapy agents.
“At first, when it happened, and I had the allergic reaction, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, what’s going to happen now? I’m not even going to get standard care,’” she says. Moler had to receive the drug at a slower pace but was grateful to still have access to it.
During chemotherapy, she continued to work Monday through Thursday. She eventually lost her hair and resorted to wearing a wig at her job so her patients didn’t know she was going through treatment.
“I didn’t want anyone to feel sorry for me,” she says. “I didn’t want to be the patient, especially when I take care of patients who are really, like, they’ve had devastating things happen — for the most part, some of them have — and so I just didn’t want there to be like, ‘Well, I’m sick, too.’ I wanted to be able to be non-biased of taking care of them and them not realize that I was a patient, also.”
Moler finished chemotherapy in February 2018 and is celebrating eight years of being cancer-free.
Since then, Moler discovered the organizations National Ovarian Cancer Coalition and Be the Difference Foundation, both based in Dallas, and started participating in events, like the
foundation’s Runway for Hope fundraiser.
“I was about five years out, or almost five years, and I felt like I was ready to kind of bring awareness because when you’re in the moment of it, I kind of just wanted to get through and was more focused on myself and my family,” she says.
Moler also took on a few endurance events with the coalition. In addition to summiting Mount Kilimanjaro, she walked in the Dublin Marathon and rode on a tandem bike in New York City. Next, she and her younger son are planning a hike up the Ausangate Mountain in Peru.
“It’s huge,” she says about her trip to Mount Kilimanjaro. “It’s life-changing. It’s so rewarding, but it’s so hard. Besides the things like no running water for the whole time, our trek was six days up and one day down, and so because of the altitude, the slower you go, the more successful you’re supposed to be.”
All of this is to raise money to support people impacted by ovarian cancer and fund research, plus bring awareness to the topic. Joanne Yurich, an advocate for ovarian cancer awareness, called the sickness a “silent killer” because the signs are often vague.
“The symptoms are so commonly misdiagnosed,” Yurich says.
Moler recommends that women advocate for themselves in the doctor’s office. Without her medical background and her good relationship with her gynecologist, she sees how her concerns could have been dismissed.
“If anything, that’s what I would tell women, is to trust your body because some of those complaints, they say they’re perimenopausal, or you could be depressed, and they just kind of get written off as changes of life,” she says. “That’s not always the case, and I think because I did have the knowledge — I didn’t think I had ovarian cancer — but I have the knowledge of, ‘I’m not going to tolerate this.’”
Moler also wants people to know that noticing symptoms earlier increases treatment options and survivorship for those who do have cancer. Those with a family history of ovarian or breast cancer should seek genetic testing, she says.
“There is a community out there that will support you through all the hard times of going through it,” she says. “We’re small, but we’re mighty.”
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OPENING REMARKS
By JEHADU ABSHIRO
Did you hear? The Advocate is 35 years old.
For 27 years, our founder Rick Wamre wrote a monthly letter from the publisher. Then in our July 2018 edition, in a very fitting manner, our then-publisher Lisa Kresl wrote a column for our women’s edition. And the next month, Rick decided not to write another letter. Ever.
After 326 columns, perhaps you run out of things to say.
It’s been a while since that last letter from the publisher. Since then we’ve become a nonprofit and added Plano Magazine as a fifth magazine to go along with our four Dallas neighborhood publications.
Five years ago, Rick stepped down as Advocate president, was a part-time chief financial officer for a couple of years and then, a few years ago, he completely retired. If you’re wondering where Rick is, so are we. He might be at the Texas Rangers spring training camp in Arizona, or he could be touring Southeast Asia or cruising the Mediterranean or on a safari through Africa. I’m not exaggerating — he’s done all of those things during the past year or so.
Since July 2021, I’ve been president and editor-in-chief of Advocate Media. And I sincerely believe I’m at a time in my life when I should probably do a whole lot more listening than talking, hence the lack of letters from me. We did move offices after 29 years — same building, only four floors lower and still in one of the neighborhoods we cover — but we’ve tried to keep our focus the same as it always has been.
We’re still dedicated to neighborhood news. Those of us who work at the Advocate have always thought that news about street closures, alley trash, neighborhood schools and students, the interesting neighbor living down the street, the local organization that helps a niche need, and tidbits about our community’s quirks matter quite a bit. The little things are the sum of the whole, and no one else covers them in our neighborhoods like we do.
Because we’re actually your neighbors, that pothole bothers us, too. Caring about our neighborhood is the biggest reason we converted into a nonprofit publication. Sustainability and operational resilience are tricky in any business, but even moreso in a business like publishing that people have been saying is going out of business for the past 25 years.
So five years ago, we decided we’re going to keep covering neighborhood news in our print magazines and our online formats, but change our business structure to match our financial status. We became a nonprofit to give our readers (and neighbors) a better chance to help us, not only with story ideas, but also with donations from time to time.
We want to be here for another 35 years, and becoming a nonprofit is the best way we could think of to accomplish that goal.
Even after 35 years, when you pick up a copy of the Advocate or read our websites or email newsletters, we hope you continue learning something about our neighborhood and our neighbors. And hopefully yourself.
Because whether you’re one of our neighborhood advertisers, donors, vendors or readers, we’ll always be your neighbor.
BY EAST DALLAS, FOR EAST DALLAS
The Trailhead takes inspiration from Hutsell houses & nature
Story by MADELYN EDWARDS
Photography by LAUREN ALLEN
Modera Trailhead opened last year with something to prove.
The Trailhead is on the 3.88 acres where the restaurants The Lot and Local Traveler used to be. Those eateries were born out of East Dallasites investing in East Dallas in the 2010s, but unfortunately, they were casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some neighbors initially opposed the mixed-use development between Grand Avenue and the Santa Fe Trail for fear that it would visually interfere with the White Rock Lake skyline and bring more traffic. But the project had support from the Friends of Santa Fe Trail and the Garland Road Vision Committee.
This division also played out at the municipal level. Despite a recommendation of denial from the City Plan Commission, Dallas City Council approved the rezoning for the project at the 3G intersection in 2021. The council limited the development to six stories and called for 9% of the apartments to be affordably priced, according to a previous Lakewood/East Dallas Advocate article.
All told, the Trailhead includes 285 homes and 12,500 square feet of retail space, a portion of which is occupied by the recently opened Beans & Brews Coffee House. The Advocate reported in 2022 that construction was getting ready to start. The project’s timeline was impacted by post-pandemic building issues as well as the complexity of the job, including the below-grade work that needed to be done.
In response to criticism, efforts were made to make the structure recede into the tree line as much as possible, Mill Creek Residential Senior Managing Director of Development Michael Blackwell says. The project also took multiple opportunities to pay homage to our neck of the woods.
“I’m excited to get people into the property, particularly those people who are already very attached to East Dallas the way most of our team members are because I think they’ll just feel part of that promise that we made, which is let’s go do something that is of the neighborhood, for the neighborhood, about the neighborhood,” Blackwell, a Lake Highlands resident, told the Advocate last year. “It never was about peering up over the lake. It was about nestling into this confluence of the streets and trees and golf courses and trails, green spaces and the lake that don’t exist in many places in the city.”
Nature and Mediterranean architecture, particularly in tilework, arched doorways and courtyard spaces, motivated the design of the Trailhead. The Hutsell houses were an inspiration, as was the DeGolyer mansion.
“If somebody redid a Hutsell house … in a really thoughtful way but where they weren’t trying to just have it be totally period appropriate, but they wanted to honor the heritage of that Hutsell experience, and you walked into their house, what would you expect to see?” Blackwell says. “That’s kind of what was driving us the whole time.”
Elegant is the word Blackwell used to describe these choices. Walking into the front office, you’ll see
a tiled water fountain with an intricate snowflake-like design and a green-gray background, paired with potted plants on either side. Plant life references come up in wallpaper, light fixtures that look like flowers and art, like prints of tree trunk rings. Actual greenery is stationed in common areas, too.
East Dallasites already have an inclination toward nature because of proximity to White Rock Lake, which has been described as an urban oasis. Blackwell also says that the COVID-19 pandemic led people to seek out parks and trails, and that has now become the standard.
There are at least three “tree-cycled” tables in the common areas. These are large enough to seat at least eight people at one and six at each of the others. The wood used to create them came from trees that had to be removed for the Trailhead to be built. Inscribed on each table is the following message: “This table was crafted from a tree that once stood here, its branches sheltering this land. Now, as a part of this space, it continues to offer warmth, connection and beauty. May it remind us of nature’s enduring gifts and the importance of preserving our shared environment.”
One of the common areas overlooks the entrance to the Santa Fe Trail. It’s a place outfitted with cushy chairs and couches, perfect for catching up with neighbors.
“You sit here and hang out, you’re looking at the trees, and that was why we call it ‘The Nest,’” Blackwell says. “The retail is all underneath, and so this was giving people the ability to sort of be perched up in the trees, overlooking that experience. But it’s also kind of the loveliest space we have.”
Another homage to East Dallas are the ceramic tile murals on the plaza near the retail spaces. The hexagon-shaped tiles were handmade by manufacturer Cerámica Suro in Guadalajara, Mexico. One shows the Dallas trail loop, and the other zooms in on the local neighborhood.
A highlight of the Trailhead — the “pièce de résistance,” as Blackwell put it — is the terrace, lounge and event space that has a view of White Rock Lake.
“People that have a connection already to the lake and to the Arboretum and East Dallas or Forest Hills,” he says, “being able to see our part of town from this perspective is what’s special.”
IT’S NOT JUST FOR THE GIRLS
Leela’s aims to reinvent itself in the future
Photography by KATHY TRAN
Story by MADELYN EDWARDS
Leela’s Favorite Board comes with the chef’s selection of meats, cheeses, house pickles, fruit, crackers and focaccia for $29, or you can make your own board with two meats and cheeses for $14 or three of each for $17. Leela’s has a selection of pizzas, including best seller The Butcher with pepperoni and sweet and spicy sausage ($12-$21).
LEELA’S WINE BAR IN LOWER GREENVILLE IS IN FLUX.
Its Instagrammable pop-up season for Christmas and Valentine’s Day has ended until fall.
The neighborhood pizza and wine bar transforms in November with ornaments hanging from the ceiling and wreaths on the walls. Corresponding menu items are also served during this time. Think cheeseballs, “ornamint” cocktails, white chocolate raspberry espresso martinis, mini Brie en croûte topped with honey and nuts, and roasted yukon potatoes on pizza.
Once these holiday decorations come down, there’s hardly a break before Leela’s descends into a sea of flowers, sparkles, red and pink drinks, and heart-shaped pizzas for Valentine’s Day - or Galentine’s Day, as female patrons are encouraged to bring their friends for a girls’ night out.
Come March, Leela’s feels a bit naked when shifting back to its nonseasonal self, director of operations Danyele McPherson says. But this absence makes way for Leela’s to redefine itself outside of the pop-ups.
“We’ve been known in the past for the decoration changes in the pop-ups,” McPherson says. “The sort of new era of what we’re trying to do is, instead of people coming in to see the decor changes, they’re coming in for the menu changes.”
As of writing this, Leela’s menu is a transitional one with many of the seasonal items still on there, like Brie en croûte ($15) and The Yukon pizza ($12-$21). Offerings
include meat and cheese boards, classic salads available by the half and whole that can be upgraded with chicken or prosciutto, and signature pizzas ranging from plain cheese ($10-$17) to supreme ($12-$21).
McPherson says the wine program, which is mostly served from kegs, offers a wide variety for people who love wine, but is not intimidating to those looking to experiment.
If you’re only vaguely familiar with Leela’s, you may know that it’s a wine bar that has a reputation for attracting a younger female clientele, especially because of the pop-ups. But McPherson points out that neither of these assumptions shows the full picture.
For starters, patrons tend to come to Leela’s more so for cocktails (with housemade syrups and fresh-pressed juices) than wine, particularly the bar’s espresso martinis. These are three drinks made with coffee-infused HG vodka, Mr Black Coffee Liqueur, cream and the hazelnut-flavored Frangelico. Coffee Over Feelings ($16) has torched cinnamon, Putting Myself First ($18) includes strawberry, and Sip Happens ($17) utilizes Amaro Montenegro, crème de cacao and chocolate curls. Patrons can also order the flight for a taste of all three for $35.
And Leela’s may be known as the place where female Southern Methodist University students spend a night on the town, but the demographics are more diverse than that. McPherson wants the bar to be a year-round neighborhood spot that is accessible to all, no matter your gender or how you present yourself.
“We have the elevation of the food and beverage without trying to have the pomp and circumstance of having to make a reservation and having to feel like it’s this buttoned-up experience,” she says. “You can come as you are and come in and have a good time.”
Leela’s has two other locations in Uptown and Trophy Club, but the vibe of the one in our neighborhood fits into Lower Greenville’s nightlife scene. It’s more bar than restaurant and has the club Milli on the floor directly above it.
“The magic of this location is created by its location on Greenville Avenue,” McPherson says.
McPherson wants to lean away from the perception of Leela’s only being fun to visit during the holidays, but this doesn’t mean abandoning interior style. She wants the design to be welcoming to all and somewhere between being visually busy and naked. In short, Leela’s should look and feel special year-round.
“The space has really served us well over the years, but now we’re looking for what is going to sustain us,” she says. “‘What is our path and what is our direction, and how do we kind of communicate that we’re more grown up now, that we’ve learned a lot over the years, that we have matured and that we have graduated from just throwing a great party to, ‘Hey, we can do this all year round.’”
Leela’s Wine Bar, 1914 Greenville Ave., 469.778.0201, www.leelas.com/lowergreenville
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Family uses 100-year-old Swiss Avenue home to full extent
Story by MADELYN EDWARDS Photography by LAUREN ALLEN
The Scripps family likes to show off their three-story, centenarian Swiss Avenue home, but the house isn’t just for show.
“While some rooms aren’t used as much as others, we use every inch of the house, which is what we wanted, and we use every inch of the yard, which is what we wanted,” Andy Scripps says.
He adds, “We didn’t really want anything in the home to feel like you couldn’t be in it.”
This was important to factor in ahead of the home’s renovation, especially considering that Scripps and his wife Jennifer have two young sons. They needed space to fully live their lives.
The Scripps’ former house on Lakewood Boulevard wasn’t fulfilling that need. When their Swiss Avenue home came on the market, they toured a bare bones version of it and saw something they could work with. Renovations maintained the home’s historic details while also making it completely usable.
“We can fully use the kitchen,” Scripps says. “We cook five out of seven nights at home; we eat dinner together probably four or five nights a week. So it’s a fully functioning home that still has the 1920s charm to it.”
For renovations, they brought in Eddie Maestri, principal architect, interior
Opposite: Statement light fixtures hang throughout the Scripps’ home on Swiss Avenue.
Andy and Jennifer Scripps are parents to two boys, so while their home looks nice, it is also functional and accommodating to their children.
designer and creative director at Maestri Studio. He had worked with the Scripps before and, as a lover of older homes, was a good fit for the project.
“It hadn’t really been updated in a long time,” he says of the house. “It was a lot of original details, which I love. We were like, ‘This is probably the right fit to achieve all of their goals.’ They were great to work with in that they really trusted us. They really went through the process with us and kind of leaned on us for our guidance. And then, of course, we wanted it to be truly theirs, so we really leaned into what would make them happy in this house.”
Work started near the end of 2021 and took
a few years to complete. In the ’90s or early 2000s, renovations were made to lighting and the kitchen, and a family room was added, Maestri says. Scripps says about 30% of the furniture were repurposed or recovered.
“Our goal throughout the process was really to expand upon and kind of complement the original intent,” Maestri says. “A lot of the details that you would expect in a 1920s home, it seemed to be maybe pulled out. For example, it didn’t have a lot of moldings and such, so we put all of that in.”
Maestri’s team worked to build a new primary suite on the second floor. The kitchen was expanded, and the basement was transformed from scary and damp into
a refined hangout space with a wine cellar. The backyard porch, Scripps’ favorite place in the house, features a dining area, plus seating near a fireplace with a TV overhead, perfect for watching college football games in the fall. Nearby on the patio is an often-used grilling station.
Living in the Swiss Avenue Historic District, a dream of Scripps’ wife, means that certain rules need to be followed in renovations to maintain the street’s historical homes.
This mainly impacts the front of the house and what can be seen from the street. Scripps says this isn’t as difficult as it seems as long as open communication about plans
is involved, though he did run into a cost barrier in replacing the house’s windows with ones that matched the original style.
“I think you know what you’re getting into when you buy a home on Swiss, and you’re willing to take that on and do what you can to preserve the homes,” he says. “We’ve not met any families on Swiss yet that have told us they regret getting into this.”
Maestri also wanted the house to reflect the 100 years of history it had survived. Bygone staples like iron handrails, plaster crown moldings, transoms over doors and wall paneling were added to meet that end.
“It was really not trying to make the house something it couldn’t have already been,”
Maestri says. “We really weren’t trying to make it modern, so to speak, but just kind of a clean take in some areas of what could have already been there, and I think the butler’s pantry is a really good example of that.”
The butler’s pantry is between the dining room and the kitchen. The space is memorable because of the green color on the cabinets and walls, but it also makes for a natural transition between the two rooms it connects.
Interior design elements throughout the home look retro, especially the lounge near the kitchen. This darker room, also green, with its attached brass wet bar, radiates adults-only energy. Chairs are circled around a star-shaped coffee table; this is a place Andy
and Jennifer Scripps can spend time after dinner with their friends as their children play elsewhere. Maestri described the design of this room as a blend of Art Deco and 1960s James Bond flair.
As Scripps put it, and Maestri agreed, older homes have special qualities that new ones don’t. Quirks are inevitable, and there’s always something that can be worked on, but that’s part of the appeal.
“They just have a feel to them that you don’t get in a modern home,” Scripps says. “They just have charm and bones that you could try to replicate, but I think you would know it was replicated, especially the outside structure.”
The servant staircase in the expanded kitchen is one of the home’s original features.
The use of natural light is a feature of Melanie Brannan’s art studio.
ARTIST MELANIE BRANNAN’S STUDIO BRINGS GOOD VIBES
LAKEWOOD NEIGHBOR MELANIE BRANNAN HEARD PLENTY OF OBJECTIONS WHEN SHE BUILT AN ART STUDIO IN HER BACKYARD.
Brannan stood her ground and decided to do things her way. And she pulled it off.
Her home in the neighborhood just north of Mockingbird Lane used to be her mother’s before she went to live in a retirement home, and the artist bought it in 2011. By this time, she had pivoted from her career in advertising design, which ended during the Great Recession, to creating commissioned art. She painted in her dining room and one of the bedrooms in her house before eventually building the studio in 2014 to have more room for her projects and to host events.
Brannan approached Justin McMillin of Richardson Residential to design and build the studio, and he was immediately on board.
“I go, ‘Well, we could just turn the garage into the studio.’ He goes, ‘We’re not going to do that, or I’m not going to help you,’” she says. “He goes, ‘We’re going to build a phenomenal studio.’”
Brannan gave three words when describing her vision - light, windows and contemporary. The space has recessed lighting on the ceiling, but the real light source is natural rays streaming in from the glass double doors and windows near the roofline and on the wall adjacent to the door.
The space reads as both a work area and a gallery. The
Story by MADELYN EDWARDS | Photography by ETHAN GOOD
walls are white, and the ceiling, outfitted with a three-blade fan, is high. The footprint of Brannan’s studio is 400 square feet, but it also has a loft area accessible by a metal ladder with wooden steps where she keeps some of her pieces, like a striking portrait of Prince. On the outside, the building is a tall prism with a flat roof that stands in direct contrast with Brannan’s regular-looking home.
“Everybody goes, ‘Why aren’t you matching the house?’ And I go, ‘It doesn’t have to match the house. It needs to match the feel I want,’” she says.
For the exterior siding, Brannan took a branch from a tree in her backyard to Sherwin-Williams to produce a matching paint color.
“They thought I was nuts,” she says. “I just wanted it to blend into everything else back here. I wanted it to blend into the colors that are already here. I didn’t want it to be the color of the house.”
Amid the modern details, the sliding barn doors that lead into a paint storage room and bathroom are a unique touch. Brannan says she salvaged the rustic wood from her old barn on a ranch in Aubrey, north of Lewisville Lake, and worked with a carpenter to turn it into doors for the studio. She lightly splattered paint on them to match the theme of their new home.
“I love these doors,” she says. “If I ever sell the house, the doors go wherever I go.”
Why? Because of the good memories that the barn doors evoke for Brannan and her fondness for old wood and folk art made from it. But her builder didn’t see the vision initially.
“When I told (him) what I wanted to do, he goes, ‘You can’t do that.’ I go, ‘Well, that’s what I’m going to do,’” she says. “Then he goes, ‘OK, I get it.’ And then he ended up really liking it.”
The wooden steps on the ladder were also repurposed, this time from the old zip line that used to be in the backyard.
Though she was pleased with the studio once it was finished, Brannan had to address an unexpected pressure.
“I was blown away with the building, and then I was petrified that, is my art going to live up to how nice the building is?” she says.
Of course, when she actually started painting in the studio, the space filled with “good vibes, good mojo.” Usually, she has music playing when she’s there and is surrounded by her dog and cat, the latter of whom has learned how to climb the ladder to the loft.
“When people come out here, they can feel like there’s never been anything negative in this room,” Brannan says. “People can feel that it’s just like pure happiness.”
Melanie Brannan describes the vibe of her studio as “pure happiness.”
functional comfortable historic
Inside featured Lakewood Boulevard house from most recent home tour
Story by MADELYN EDWARDS
Photography by LAUREN ALLEN
The backhouse of Taylor Nicholson’s 100-plus-year-old home on Lakewood Boulevard may have once sheltered a World War II military tank. The Unrefined Bakery cofounder points out that this is not verified, but it makes sense because the high ceilings in that 800-square-foot space are tall enough to be two stories.
“I don’t know why else it would have the high ceilings it has,” Nicholson says. “There’s really no rationale for it. So, maybe it’s true.”
Now, it houses a guest room and pool-adjacent bathroom, plus a space to project movies onto a screen, a Pop-A-Shot basketball hoop, and a weight room for her teen and preteen boys.
The pool is one reason why Nicholson and her family moved in 2020 to the two-story Dines & Kraft home, which was a home developer of many
Taylor Nicholson was happy to show off her home in the Lakewood Home Tour, which benefits the Lakewood Early Childhood PTA, last year.
Above:Wallpapers, some neutral and some bold, are incorporated as a style choice throughout Nicholson’s house.
Lakewood homes in the ’20s and ’30s. This is her and her husband’s fourth house in our neighborhood as a couple.
“We’ve lived in old homes the whole time we’ve been in Lakewood, never one this old, but they have charm and character and originality and things that are not as easy to find in new builds,” Nicholson says. “New builds just really don’t appeal to me.”
Sure, her floors may be creakier than those in a new house, and there’s always something that needs to be worked on, but that’s true of any home, Nicholson says. She loves its original features - stained glass windows, iron railings on the curved staircase and the Rookwood-tiled fireplace.
One of Nicholson’s favorite rooms is her whimsical butler’s
pantry and bar. It also has geometric stained glass windows coupled with jungle-oriented wallpaper with fancy animals — parrots with crowns, reptiles with top hats and stopwatches, and toucans with bow ties.
“The kind of wallpaper you could only put in a tiny space because it is bold and loud,” she says.
Nicholson and her husband had the home renovated before they moved in. She acted as the general contractor on the project and finished the project in about three and a half weeks with her subcontractors.
“We took it sort of to a blank slate in terms of the changes we wanted to make, refinishing the floors, smoothing the texture on
Left: Stained glass is a prominent feature of this historic home that was designed by Dines & Kraft, which was a prolific Lakewood developer.
the walls, painting everything,” Nicholson says, adding that most of the surfaces were changed out. “We added all recessed lighting. The house had nothing but floor lamps and one central light fixture in each room, so it was quite dark. … But we didn’t change any of the bones of the house. The structure and the layout is exactly as it was.”
As for interior design, Nicholson described her choices as classic. She uses neutral and natural tones with small bursts of color, such as statement pillows in her living room, art on display and wallpaper. When bolder hues are used, they highlight the colors in the original features.
“The home, it makes such a statement in and of itself, like the architecture, and we have all these arched doorways and the stained
glass,” she says. “I didn’t want anything to compete with stained glass or the other character marks in the home.”
Nicholson’s home is situated within the Lakewood Conservation District, and she likes that. Of course, this means she would have to follow rules to make certain changes to her home. When she replaced windows, they had to be replicas of the ones that were already there.
“It just preserves the history we’re surrounded by,” Nicholson says. “All of my neighbors are obviously old homes as well. I love being in a conservation district. I think part of what makes Lakewood so unique, it’s not only just our trees and all of our awesome landscaping everywhere, but I love that our houses are protected.”
For the most part, Nicholson has chosen neutral interior colors that allow the home’s original features, like the stained glass windows, to shine.
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23 years of experience, specializing in urban markets & 20+ years in corporate relocation. As a 5 year Advocate Top Realtor, John is your DFW expert, built on referrals.
Lakewood isn’t just where Lauren works—it’s home. Born and raised in Lakewood, she’s proud to guide buyers and sellers in the neighborhood she knows best, including representing the highestgrossing off-market Lakewood sale of 2026 to date. Growing up here and staying deeply rooted in the community fuels her passion for helping families find their place, and it’s an honor to serve each and every one. Cheers to many more in 2026 and beyond.
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“Working with Natalie to sell our home in Lakewood was a dream! She was extremely knowledgeable and led the entire process, all while making us feel like an important part of the team as we made decisions together. She was diligent, kind & just a joy to work with - very thankful to count her as our friend and now as our agent.”
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HOME FOR A CENTURY
The 100-year-old-plus Mount Auburn home is being loved again
Story by MADELYN EDWARDS
Photography by LAUREN ALLEN
WHEN MOVING TO DALLAS FROM CHICAGO
IN 2020 , Jason and Amanda Dowling thought their Mount Auburn home was built in 1947.
They later discovered that it is over 100 years old.
A neighbor speculated that the Craftsman house was older. Another claimed that a fire had destroyed records, so homes in the area were mistakenly saddled with the wrong date. On a day that Amanda specifically recalled wanting to know more about the history, she soon got her wish.
“Six hours later, I’m in the shower getting ready for somewhere, and (Jason) doesn’t know I thought this, and he runs in the bathroom. He’s like, ‘Babe, there’s this lady on the Ring camera, and I heard her say something; she’s talking about her house.’ And I remembered my (thought from a) few hours ago. I was like, ‘No way. Get her in here,’” she says.
The woman in her 80s turned out to be the granddaughter of their house’s original owner. Her son, a local builder, told her someone was “loving the house again,” so she stopped by the home from out of town. Once the Dowlings spotted her, she was given a tour, despite the house being messier than usual.
“She loved that because she saw it being lived in,” Amanda says.
The woman told them that her grandparents built it after moving to Texas around 1915. Amanda obtained a photo of the woman’s mother and grandfather sitting on the porch dated 1923 and found the deed that recorded the land being bought in 1918. This was the confirmation and history she was looking for.
architecture and Amanda in interior design, both in the commercial sector. They replaced the outdated knoband-tube electrical wiring and clay plumbing pipe. The couple installed a new cedar fence and custom gate. They refinished the original pine floors inside before they moved in.
Rebuilding the front porch, which had soft spots that were exacerbated by the 2021 winter storm, was an especially big project. It lasted for over 10 months.
“We, on paper, knew it would be long, but when you get into it, you’re in it, and time stands still,” Amanda says. “It went slow. It couldn’t move fast enough.”
Jason, his brother and his father did the work themselves, and at one point had to jack up the porch. They replaced the old columns with slimmer ones and opted for a black metal banquette for a more modern look. The floor of the porch is pine that they stained themselves.
The renovations have continued on the back of the house. Amanda and Jason rebuilt the back exterior wall and added new clapboard siding. When replacing windows, they opted for new wooden ones with metal casing as opposed to vinyl ones, “as a way to respect the home’s original character,” Amanda says.
Having this connection with the original owners’ granddaughter left an impression on Amanda, who still keeps in touch with the woman.
“She said, ‘I just wish my grandparents were alive. They would be so happy to know that there’s someone that cares about their house so much because it was their first and only home they ever had,’” she says.
The Mount Auburn home is also the first one that Jason and Amanda Dowling have ever owned. They found the house online, and Jason toured it by himself when he was in town for a job interview. For Amanda, the house met her two requirements on paper - having hardwood floors and at least 10-foot ceilings. That’s what they were used to in Chicago. The price of the home and the fact that it’s under 2,000 square feet sweetened the deal.
Renovations had to be made. The Dowlings were somewhat advantaged since Jason has a background in
The next projects are working on the back office’s interior walls, repainting the laundry room, replacing tile with vinyl and installing wallpaper.
Art is hung on nearly every wall throughout the house. Multiple patterned rugs are laid out. Amanda says she tends to incorporate colors in her design and pull pieces together that may not seem like they would fit. And because of her work, she brings in commercial furniture as well.
“It is something I’d love the neighborhood to be able to be eclectic and have some new and keeping some things that could just look nicer and bring in some modern tones, but still keep that eclectic or that vintage look or older historical look,” she says.
As someone who grew up in Plano, Jason knows how Dallas tends to have a “slash and burn” approach to its history. That’s what makes learning the backstory behind his family’s home even more meaningful.
“I noticed in Chicago there’s history everywhere you turn,” he says. “So I found it very inspiring to come back and learn something about a house that we had bought. I thought it was really cool. And quickly started meeting the people around here … it’s like, ‘Oh no, there is a lot of history, and people who do care.’ It’s just not easy to find. It’s there. You just have to look a little harder for it.”
Layers of wallpaper tell some of the home’s history.
here comes heidi
A Ju-Nel A-frame bought by a couple who loves homes
Story by JEHADU ABSHIRO
Photography by LARUEN ALLEN
A CENTENARIAN CRAFTSMAN IN MICHIGAN. A 2003 industrial townhome in Bryan Place. A 1930 Victorian in Junius Heights. A 1945 Tudor near the M Streets. And now a 1962 midcentury modern in Eastwood Estates. One of the two Ju-Nel A-frames, nonetheless.
In the about seven years that 38-year-old Heidi Ellsworth and Blake Iwaniw, 39, have been together, they’ve managed to collect the infinity stones of architecture.
It wasn’t intentional. They just love a house with potential and a little bit of history.
The couple met through Tinder in February 2019 in Phoenix. Four months in, Iwaniw was looking at homes bookmarked by Ellsworth in his native Michigan. He needed to relocate for his job at an erosion control and geosynthetics company. They moved into the aforementioned Grand Rapids craftsman, which had a Pittsburgh potty made for laborers to clean up before entering the main living areas, in July. He proposed in December.
But for the couple, going from Phoenix, a city of 1.6 million people, to Grand Rapids, a city of a mere 200, 000, was undescribable. Iwaniw has spent time in Atlanta, Chicago, and
Bamboo trees, a Ju-Nel signature feature, line the house. Photography by Ethan Wardman.
an 18-month stint in Spain. Ellsworth, a Seattle native, had moved to New York City for a boy before ending up in Phoenix. His job included managing operations in five states, including Texas, along with Mexico and Latin America. Snakes are abundant in Austin, and Dallas seemed pleasant during a onetime layover. Ellsworth started a job with Match Group as the vice president of CRM for 14 of their brands, ironically including Tinder. So they found a townhome with corrugated metal detailing and a large townhome in a FaceTime with their realtor.
They lasted in that home for a little over year, before thinking about starting a family.
“And we knew that three stories wasn’t going to work,” Iwaniw says.
After four bidding wars, they finally won on a Victorian on Victor Avenue.
“We had just lost out on a house that we absolutely loved to a competing offer,” Ellsworth says. “And so we offered, I think, asking price, or right over asking price. We’re like, ‘They’re not going to accept it, right?’ And then they did, and we were like, ‘Oh, crap, what do we do?’ But it was a really beautiful house.”
That’s where they brought their daughter home.
“So it has, you know, beautiful memories,” she says.
And in 2023, they found their M Streets-adjacent house. The Kenwood Avenue Tudor needed significant structural work. The joints in the ceiling above the primary bedroom were cracked causing the ceiling to cave in. The flooring around the refrigerator had rotted due to a leak. Neither of them enjoyed all of the crown molding that needed to be done to be period-appropriate.
“The renovation process has allowed us to buy homes that otherwise we wouldn’t be able to afford,” he says. “We’re able to get into houses with potential
Blake Iwaniw and Heidi Ellsworth are connoisseurs of architecturallystriking homes.
and cool neighborhoods, and we enjoy it. There’s a lot of satisfaction that comes from improving spaces and making them livable and beautiful.”
There was temporary buyer’s regret, but they loved the finished product. It went well with their ornate art frames, refurbished vintage and contemporary furnishing they picked up secondhand.
But then there was an open house.
“We weren’t even looking for a house. We were just wrapping up our M Streets house,” Ellsworth says.
She didn’t know much about Ju-Nel architecture and hadn’t spent much time east of the lake. Their daughter was napping at home with Iwaniw and she decided to drop in on the home created by Dallas-favorite architects Lyle Rowley and Jack Wilson.
“I just want to see it, you know?” Ellsworth says. “I just walked around. I was like, ‘Oh, my God, this house is amazing.’”
They didn’t even think about putting an offer. There was already a slew of bids and another bidding war seemed exhausting. And again, they had just finished the Tudor.
But when Ellsworth sat on the edge of
the bed in the primary bedroom, looking at the original 9-foot 1960s pool through a wall of glass, she fell in love.
“This is kind of what sold us on the house, just being able to lay in bed and look out.”
She watched the listing all week, noticing it was still on the market Monday, they texted the realtor.
At the time of their purchase, in its 63-year existence, the 2,569-squarefoot three-bedroom and three-bath hadn’t been on the market for 53 years and had only had two owners. Ellsworth and Iwaniw bought the home May 2025 and moved in June.
Despite the east side of the home being constructed with primarily glass panels, the home manages to be secluded with a Ju-Nel’s signature line of bamboo trees and an entryway tucked into a courtyard.
The linoleum galley kitchen was transformed with durable leathered granite countertops, Ikea cabinets fitted with third-party door fronts and handmade green Moroccan tile.
“I’m essentially a mule. She’s the brains of the operation,” he says.
They try to do most of the renovations
on their own. And they have no problem rebuilding and redoing something that’s not quite right. The right half of the built-in bookshelves they constructed from scratch, they took down, leveled, and rebuilt.
“You got to make it right, take it down,” she says. “So we’ve done that several times.”
They had the living areas painted in a creamy alabaster and replaced the carpet with 2,200 square feet of hardwood. They rebuilt the small deck off the family room on the original coffee can pillars.
On the second floor, where the landing is lined with built-ins, is their daughter’s room tucked into the eaves of the A-frame.
“But she really has the best room in the house,” Ellsworth says.
Eventually, the family of three will find their way back to Seattle to be closer to Ellsworth’s family. After living in more than seven states collectively (and Iwaniw lived in Spain for an 18-month stint), going home to Ellsworth family is appealing. Plus, it’s an opportunity for a new house. Perhaps a craftsman.
The original linoleum galley kitchen was reimagined to include durable leathered granite countertops and handmade green Moroccan tile. Photography by Ethan Wardman.
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