Because Love Don’t Run
We have written about the homes of country singer Steve Holy before, both his previous house (which he tells me he essentially built with his hands plus help from a contractor friend) and his current home that is on the market with Lee Lamont, the Lord of Lakewood real estate.
Well, guess what? That home is where we are having our next daltxrealestate.com Staff Meeting! That’s right, in Steve Holy’s Lakewood house. Pinch me.
If you know anything about music, you know that Steve is a local guy — grew up right on Interstate 30, he told me — born here in 1972. He grew up the youngest of eight children. His dad, he says, was a tough guy who worked in the oil fields.
“I’ve been working since I was five,” Steve told me, “in our family, if you had any time at all to goof around, then you had time to work.”
When he was 19, in 1991, Steve entered the Mesquite Opry music competition. His voice caught the attention of Wilbur Rimes, the father of country singer LeAnn Rimes, who had lived in Garland. Eight years later Steve was signed to Curb Records.
So while his first Dallas house on Vickery was built just as his music career was budding, this home, located in a tucked away nook of gated homes a quick walk from the Stanley Marcus house in Lakewood, was his achievement house — 6610 Nonesuch Court.
Steve took me on a tour. Come next Tuesday, if you RSVP, you can go on that same tour and, hint hint, Steve may even be there!
You get the best of everything with this home: location, gated area exclusivity, safety, proximity, trees and topography, all on almost a one-third acre lot. There are vast open spaces, five bedrooms, five full baths, three or four living areas (Steve is using the dining room as a billiards room) a master suite, study, media room all downstairs. The three children’s bedrooms are upstairs plus an additional “fun room” open to the great room. There is a three-plus car garage. Why do I say plus? Because it has two cars on one side, the third on the other, and the connecting space is so large Steve has a golf cart parked in there.
Note to buyer: Buy that golf cart with the house.
You walk into the foyer and grand staircase, the study to your right. The dining room is open and to your left. Straight ahead is the great room with its huge fireplace — I love the rock surround, and it reaches all the way up to the 24-foot ceiling.
There is an open, spacious kitchen loaded with high end appliances — Wolf, Sub Zero, and a huge island slab where you can sit and talk for hours. From here you can head towards the garage and the “family foyer” area with beadboard-backed hanging hooks, a bench and shoe storage, the powder room, and laundry room.
Off the great room is the room where Steve has out his father’s 1950s-era pool table — massive. This room could be a library, formal living, morning room, whatever you want.
The home has a downstairs media room, which is rare, and it’s a total blackout room, so if you have been up all night writing music you can sleep in here. Winding down a hall that skirts the beautiful outdoor, patio you reach the master bedroom, complete with it’s own breakfast/wine bar. I say wine because there is a wine cooler in this bar: wake up to coffee, tea, or vino.
And because the house is designed so well for the property, all rooms have generous views of the wooded yard and the great outdoor porch with fireplace.
About that porch: it is very cozy, has a large outdoor mounted television, and is covered for protection from the environment. This part of the home has a total Mardis Camp feel to it.
In fact, the entire house feels more like a 5,466-square-foot vacation home in Dallas than the Dallas residence of a hard-working recording artist.
It’s an easy, casual vibe that totally fits with the life and music of Holy. It is listed with the talented Lee Lamont of Coldwell Banker at a reduced price of $1.949 million.
Great karma and that music juju? It all comes with the house!
Hope to see you at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday!
