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Remodeling & Interior Design in University Park, TX

Lively Luxury Designs remodels University Park, TX homes: kitchens, bathrooms, built-ins and millwork matched to houses that were built long before the suburbs were.

University Park wraps around SMU, minutes from the center of Dallas, and its houses are old by North Texas standards. Tudors, colonials and cottages from the 1920s through the 1940s, on narrow lots with the garage off the alley. Almost nothing about remodeling one is like remodeling a house built in the last twenty years.

The kitchens were put at the back and built small on purpose, so the useful question is which wall can move and what the house gains if it does. The baths are small for the same reason. And the trim, the doors and the plaster are the reason people buy here, so the right move is to match the existing profiles rather than run modern stock through the whole floor. We mill to match. On the practical side, the streets are tight and deliveries come down the alley, which changes how a job is staged.

Nicki, our North Dallas design consultant, came out of real estate and residential renovation, which matters in a neighborhood where a lot of houses are bought with the remodel already in mind.