Don’t let this gorgeous home’s build date fool you. While it was smartly and dramatically renovated in 2022, this magnificent Inwood Road estate is an iconic architecturally significant home from 1985, a modernist masterpiece designed by one of Dallas’s most prolific and award-winning architects.
The late Bud Oglesby was known for designing modernist dwellings throughout Preston Hollow, North Dallas, and Oak Lawn with keen attention to natural light. Late in his illustrious career, Oglesby expertly sited this two-story, 8,727-square-foot home set on 1.82 acres that follows the gentle curve of Bachman Branch creek.
Tucked behind a shrub-lined gate and down a winding private drive, 10573 Inwood Road looks as timeless and modern as the day it was built. That’s why architect-designed homes, let alone nationally renowned architects, are such a prize when they come on the market. They offer vast insight into how architects like Bud Oglesby have a design sense that’s way ahead of their time.
But this home is staying ahead of the curve. The owners have completed a sensational renovation that senior columnist Karen Eubank calls “possibly the most sensitive and appropriate facelift and update” she’s seen in a decade, and that’s saying a lot as a venerable expert in multimillion-dollar homes and historic home preservation.
Outside, the home received new paint, decking, landscaping, and an entirely brand-new reflecting pool.
Inside, the owners replaced all the flooring, installed new lights and chandeliers, and completely renovated the kitchen with European-style cabinets and a premium Sub-Zero and Wolf appliance package.
And while the home has undergone quite the facelift, 10573 Inwood retains its signature design elements that made Oglesby such an innovative and principal leader of the Dallas midcentury design movement.
In the expansive living area, original, heavy-framed French doors add a prominent punctuation between indoors and out — almost like a literal picture frame for the outdoors. In the primary bath, original barreled ceilings add soft movement to the minimalist spa scape.
In all, the 8,727-square-foot home has five bedrooms, six full baths, and one half-bath with an upstairs primary suite. An office with a fireplace, multiple dining and living spaces, an expansive game room, and a three-car garage round up the well-thought-out floorplan. And in every room of the house, glorious windows that soak in the tree-dappled sunlight.
So yes, this home has all the updates and conveniences of a 2022-built home. But 10573 Inwood has something you just can’t buy in a brand-new home — the architectural provenance of one of Dallas’s most important modernist architects, Bud Oglesby.
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