Southern Living 2014 Showcase Home

If you love Houston’s home tours, you won’t want to miss the 2014 Southern Living 2014 Showcase home in Cypress, which opens for public viewing on Thursday, May 8. The 5300 square foot home is located in Cypress, in Water’s Edge, a master planned waterfront community. Costing $1.35 million, the  single-story home boasts four bedrooms and a four-car garage on a three-quarter acre lot; naturally, each bedroom has its own private bathroom and walk-in closet. We loved learning about the little details in the home from this Houston Business Journal article: natural light in the bathroom through a window in an interior wall, a digital shower that will remember your preferred water temperature, and an in-mirror TV in the bathroom are just a few of the highlights.

Southern Living’s 2014 Showcase Home is open to the viewing public from May 8 through June 15; tickets are $10 in advance, and $12 at the door. Ticket sales will benefit Operation Finally Home and HomeAid Houston.

Other Houston home tours you may find interesting include:
•AIA Houston Home Tour: Held in October, 2014, the AIA Houston Home Tour showcases the finest residential architecture in the city, as designed by licensed architects. Tickets are $25 per person ($20 for bike riders, $10 for single house). AIA Houston Home Tours are nonprofit fundraisers, supporting various AIA initiatives throughout the year.

•River Oaks Garden Club Azalea Trail 2014: The River Oaks Garden Club Azalea Trail tour is over for 2014, but it’s a spring event Houstonians won’t want to miss! You can, however, enjoy the River Oaks Garden Club Bayou Bend tour, year-round; explore fourteen acres of gardens, and visit part of the American Decorative Arts Wing of the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

•ArCH Walking Tours: Held Saturdays from 10 a.m.-noon, September through May, this walking tour series almost finished for the season, but there are three tours left before summer—the Museum District Walking Tour, the Urban Art Tour, and the Rock, Building Stones Downtown Tour. Cost is $10 for non-members, $5 for ArCH and AIA Houston members, and $5 for architecture students (with current ID). Explore architecture, design, and history of Houston neighborhoods in a two-hour tour, led by trained docents.

•Heritage Society Historic Homes Tour: Tour ten historic structures in downtown Houston, dating from 1823 to 1905. Authentic restoration of each structure gives a peek at the families and lifestyles that inhabited the historic homes. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, $6 for children over six (free 5 and under).

•The Heights Home Tours: The Houston Heights Association brings us home tours in the spring, as well as a Christmas holiday spectacular! If the Heights is one of your favorite architectural spots in Houston, bookmark the Houston Heights Association page (or sign up for their newsletter) to get up-to-date news on their tours and schedules.

And if you’re out and about in the Galleria, come and visit us and take a tour of our showroom! Cabinets & Designs is located at 4200 Westheimer; don’t forget to find us on Facebook and Twitter, too!