I've been wanting to show you a wonderful home that is about two blocks from Patty's and mine. The address is 9926 Robin Hill. Robin Hill is in a big area of Dallas known as Lake Highlands.
While my photography doesn't begin to do it justice, nevertheless I wanted to show you three pictures of it that I took today.
Notice that the house's cube dimension is pleasant to the eye, and notice that the architect and builder didn't use whatever windows they could get on sale. Consequently, the facade totally has symmetry. This doesn't seem to happen much in these days and times...at least it doesn't in Dallas.
I also like the acute display of Pride of Ownership. The comfortable cane chairs on the porch with the plump pillows, the basket of flowers hanging on the door. The American flag, the pumpkins and the scarecrow.
Cliff, the guy with the biology degree who can't stand to work inside, is the neighborhood gardener. He keeps these grounds as if they were attended to yesterday. Cliff and his family live on the next corner.
And I love the bay window with the standing copper seam roof that the owners added last year. You can't see it in the 
picture, but there's a ladder back love seat there in the window.
There are many more houses in Lake Highlands that fit this bill. Patty's and mine is one of them. But I don't think any are as close to perfect as 9926 Robin Hill.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Stewart for creating the Lake Highland's Inspiration House.
GOD Blesses!
Miss Joan,
I wish you could see it in real life. It is New England-looking. I've never met the Stewarts (the people who own it), but I wish others throughout the neighborhood would follow their example, and further, I wish some architecture school would demand that ever class come look at it to learn.
You ought to see some of this junk they're building here in the expensive neighborhoods of Dallas. I would take pictures and post them so everyone could see, but I most certainly don't want to offend the owners and the builders.
Billycherry
Bill, Being a native Californian, my taste runs to California Spanish and California Ranch Style. Your house is nice, but it is not my "perfect" house. But I'm glad it is yours. And your photography seems to be OK to me.
Bill Roberts
Bill and Others
I did a lousy job of making my point. Let me try again. What I believe makes this house exemplary isn't its style, although I like it, but that it's true to its architectural style.
About 30 years ago, the company I was with at the time began a whole subdivision of California-style homes on a wonderful lake here in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. They were designed by your state's famous Barry Burkus...even the paint colors and the landscaping. They would have done fine in California as his pedigree had proved over and over. They didn't do worth a toot here. We didn't ever try being innovative again.