Mid-Century Modern Treehouse in Dallas Lists for $3 Million

A Mid-Century Trendy Dallas residence sitting among the many treetops listed Monday for $3 million. 

Designed in 1963 by famend Texas architect David Braden, the treehouse was constructed to the precise specs of the almost 1-acre, hillside plot it was constructed on, in keeping with the itemizing with Janelle Alcantara of Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty. 

“It’s actually site-specific design,” she stated. “Even for those who had $10 million, you can not choose that home aside and attempt to duplicate it some other place…each single factor about the home was fastidiously thought out to go along with that lot and with the precise setting. So, each window is framing a sure particular tree. The steps are following the pure terrain of the hillside. It’s actually related to its environment.”

Past the leafy cover, there are views of the town, giving the house much more of a treehouse vibe. 

A perforated black door swivels to let visitors and guests into the house, itemizing images present. Inside, the home windows and French doorways are additionally trimmed in black, giving it a contemporary, industrial really feel, whereas natural components like brick accent partitions and hardwood flooring offset the home windows and inside glass partitions.

At almost 4,310 sq. ft, the residence has a semi-open format with a hearth with a copper encompass and half wall separating the glass-enclosed front room from the eating space. Sections of glass create a light-filled hallway adjoining to the primary dwelling space, and there’s additionally an eat-in kitchen with triangular clerestory home windows, Miele home equipment, a breakfast bar and doorways resulting in a deck. 

Most of the finishes are new, Ms. Alcantara famous, however stay acceptable for the house. An area design company, Past Inside Design, was behind the updates, the agent added. 

A household room affords built-in shelving and entry to the wrap-around deck, the itemizing stated. Certainly, a lot of the house is related by out of doors areas.

The house “actually takes benefit of the outside and it’s expanded far past the sq. footage inside,” Ms. Alcantara famous. 

There are 4 bedrooms and two and a half loos, together with an proprietor’s suite with French doorways that open to the yard, a renovated rest room and a closet with clerestory home windows. 

Different facilities embody a media room with a kitchenette, a Lutron home-automation system and a built-in sound system, plus a pool with a water function, an up to date out of doors bathe and a firepit with seating. 

The house final traded in 2012, however Mansion World couldn’t decide for a way a lot. The proprietor was not out there for remark.