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Enhance your home with top notch kitchen renovation services in Lake Forest and Orange County, CA Our expert kitchen remodeling contractors are here to transform your space.

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Home Remodeling

Address: 21752 Newvale Dr. Lake Forest, CA 92630

Phone: (949) 749-5387

Email: lakeforestremodeling@gmail.com

Website: https://www.lakeforestremodeling.com/

Lake Forest Remodeling offers remodeling services, with a team that prides itself on customer satisfaction through access to high-quality materials and careful attention to detail.  Our crews have extensive background in construction and can handle projects of all sizes.  We are a manufacturer and distributor, which allows us to not only have direct control of the production process, ensuring the highest quality, but also the logistics, allowing us to avoid mark ups from the middle man.  As a result, we can pass on significant savings to our customers.  We also have financing options available.  We are confident in the services we provide and stand behind the quality of our work with lifetime warranties! Serving Lake Forest, California and surrounding areas in Orange County.

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Lake Forest Remodeling

Phone: (949) 749-5387

Address: 21752 Newvale Dr., Lake Forest, CA 92630

Website: https://www.lakeforestremodeling.com/

Lake Forest Remodeling is a one-stop shop contractor that specializes in kitchen, bath, and general home renovations in Lake Forest, California and surrounding areas in Orange County.  

Premium cabinets, countertops, and flooring at affordable prices! Financing options available.  We stand behind the quality of our work with lifetime warranties!

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Studio PHH divides lakeside house with double-height glass atrium

Brooklyn architecture firm Studio PHH has split this waterfront property in Princeton, New Jersey, into two halves connected by a dramatic atrium that offers woodland views through full-height glass walls.

Sited on the shores of Lake Carnegie, the home is named "La Clairière," which is French for "The Glade". The name references the large glazed space in the middle of the home, which separates two volumes on either side.

La Clairière is split into two halves by a glass volume

Completed in 2021, the home encompasses 7,800 square feet (725 square metres) and was completed as a full-time residence for a couple that often hosts visiting family.

"Nestled within a forest of large oaks on the shore of Carnegie Lake, the house sits like a monolith, split down the center allowing the landscape to run through its core," said Studio PHH founder Pierre-Henri Hoppenot.

The double-height central space contains the home's main living areas, including the kitchen and dining room on the ground floor, which extend to the outdoors at the front and back of the home, and a mezzanine upstairs.

A dramatic spiral staircase connects the living room to a mezzanine above. Photograph is by Glen Gery

"With large window walls at each end, this light-filled 'void' connects back to the landscape on both sides, capturing the sunrise and sunset within the same space," Hoppenot said.

Horizontal wooden siding defines the walls of this expansive space, lending contrast to the other two volumes, which are clad in dark, slender bricks.

According to the architect, the teak boards used in this space were salvaged from previous construction in Myanmar, meaning that the wood was sourced without cutting any trees.

A dramatic spiral staircase leads to the upper level, below several skylights that bring even more light into the space.

The living room is bright and white, with timber accents that add warmth

The other two volumes contain the home's bedrooms, a home office, and a media room. Unlike the central space, the openings in these rooms are smaller punched windows, providing more privacy as well as offering framed views of the surrounding vegetation.

"The two dark brick volumes on either side are sunken into a deep landscape and emerge out of the ground," said Hoppenot. "These host all the private spaces and were designed to provide peaceful & protected rooms that contrast the center."

The slender black bricks used on the exterior contrast the glazed central portion of the home. Photograph is by Glen Gery

The interiors feature a range of neutral tones that complement the teak finish in the primary living space, including limestone flooring, while darker wooden slats forming an accent wall within the primary bedroom.

Other projects in New Jersey include the careful renovation of a mid-century home by Marcel Breuer, and a former propeller factory that was overhauled by New York studio Fogarty Finger.

The photography is by Tom Grimes unless otherwise stated.

Project credits:

Architect: Studio PHH Architects Structural engineer: KSI Engineers Contractor: Lasley Construction Landscape architect: Andrew Zientek Landscape

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Four years ago, my fiancé, Colin, and I decided to move to New Mexico. We had been living in a secluded river valley in western Colorado, but both of us were venturing into self-employment and thought it’d be easier in a bigger town. So we rigged our pickup with a load the Beverly Hillbillies would have admired — furniture, lamps, buckets full of pottery glaze — and drove south. I was happy. I’d waited my whole life to make this move.

Every summer of my childhood, my family had made a similar migration, leaving our duplex in Illinois and driving west. We’d spend a couple of months in the scrappy adobe house on a hill in Santa Fe, where my dad grew up. Though we had a great life in Chicago, this house cast a spell on all of us. The hill’s edges looked soft and green from afar. Up close, the land was spiny and jagged, a pile of pinkish granite with squat trees and tough succulents. It seemed even then that though I didn’t live here, it was where I came from, the place I always wanted to get back to.

Colin and I are married now. Colin is generous and goofy, a self-taught professional potter with impossibly pale blue eyes. He grew up in Ohio and loves mountains and the space of the western horizon, but he doesn’t pine for the high desert. He notices with annoying frequency how little water Santa Fe has. He likes big trees and he likes to grow food, and he wonders if big trees and homegrown food will exist here in 50 years. Or in 20. Or in 10. These are reasonable concerns, I know. I’m a journalist who covers climate change, and I’ve written thousands of words about the Southwest’s hot, dry future. Yet whenever Colin fretted, I found myself punting, offering half-baked reassurances that we’d be fine.

And then this year, winter never came. I watered the trees in our yard in early February. On April Fool’s Day, I hiked to 11,000 feet without snowshoes. A friend and her husband who were planning a spring trip to Montana said they wanted to scope it out as a place to live. “We can’t have all our money tied up in property in a place that’s going to run out of water!” she told me.

I began to worry, too, that after a long and frequently distant romance, I’d married us to a town without reckoning with the particulars of its future. How likely is this place to become barren? How soon? Will we have the tools to endure it? We’d eloped.

Now, in this rapaciously dry year, a quiet question grew louder: What are we doing here? I felt a sudden need to understand what Colin and I stood to lose as the heat intensified and the world dried out. And I wondered if we should leave.

After our wedding, Colin and I planted an elderberry bush, his favorite plant, in our yard in Santa Fe. We had found a variety native to New Mexico, and our parents had added soil from their homes to the plant’s pot during the ceremony. Putting it in the ground was our first act as homeowners.

We had started to look at real estate soon after moving, though Colin was reluctant to make the financial and physical commitment. I had promised that our move to New Mexico didn’t have to be final. We’ll give it five years, we said. We looked at loads of houses before we found one: It was a bank-owned wreck with a leaky roof, a bathtub that drained into the yard through a haphazard hole in the wall, and a mess of once-wet dog food still caked to the kitchen floor. Yet it had “good bones,” as they say, and we knew right away that it fit. More than money, we had time and the innocent enthusiasm of first-time renovators.

We thought we’d move in within months. Instead, it took more than a year. I learned how to tile and chiseled fossilized gunk from the floors. And Colin got to entertain his fantasy of raising his own house, rebuilding walls, replacing windows, building a shower, plumbing sinks.

Neither of us slept as well as we used to. We were stressed by our irregular paychecks. We’d begun a splintered conversation about having children. Our house was on a well. At first, we thought this was a liability, but people told us it was an asset: In Santa Fe, city water is expensive and well water is free. We looked into hooking up to the city system anyway, but it would have been pricey, and the guy who replaced our sewer line advised us to just wait until our well ran dry.

Conversations like this felt like little warnings. One truism about the future is that climate change will spare no place. Still, I suspect the threat of warming feels more existential in New Mexico than it does in Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes. Drought has gripped the Southwest for 19 years, more than half my life. It’s been dry in two ways: First, less water has fallen from the sky. And second, it’s been unusually hot.

By the time we arrived in Santa Fe, the Jemez Mountains west of town had become an archetype of the murderous impact climate change will have on forests. Drought, heat, and insect outbreaks had killed 95 percent of the old piñon pines over large portions of the southeast Jemez. This year, the moisture in living trees in the Santa Fe National Forest has hit levels lower than those you’d find in lumber at Home Depot. The fire risk was so high by June 1 that the US Forest Service closed all 1.6 million acres of the forest to the public.

The forecasts for our water supplies are equally grim. The Colorado River’s flows are down about 20 percent since the start of the drought, and scientists believe the remarkable heat is responsible for up to half of the decline. By the end of the century, some say, the amount of water in the Southwest’s rivers could plummet by 50 percent.

We could see the power of the parched air and scorching sun in our own yard. Our elderberry seemed to melt in the midday sun. It sacrificed limbs, their leaves shriveling brown and crisp. Is it a bad sign if our wedding plant dies? We joked about it, but it felt like an omen. Last year, Colin divided its roots, and he transplanted part of it into the shade this spring, a kind of insurance against death.

Aridity, in one way or another, has pushed or drawn people to New Mexico for centuries. Pueblo peoples came in part because a punishing drought strained their societies in the Four Corners and it was time to start anew. In the late 1800s, white Easterners came because the aridity healed. These so-called “lungers” suffered from tuberculosis, and doctors believed dry air and sunshine could sap the damaging moisture from patients’ lungs.

In the 1940s, my dad’s parents, Polly and Thornton Carswell, were living in Carmel, California, a countercultural refuge from their buttoned-up hometown of Springfield, Illinois. Polly was a free spirit, a weaver, who kept a few demure beige dresses to wear back to Springfield. Out West, she wore flowing skirts, colorful aprons, heavy turquoise jewelry, and orange lipstick, and carried a basket instead of a purse.

A couple years after they moved to Santa Fe, they started a restaurant. They screen-printed the menus and hosted jazz concerts there, and when business was slow, they pulled the boys out of school and took road trips through Mexico. They bought the house on the hill and were laid to rest beside its back door.

Their story taught me about where I came from, both the place and the people: brave, adventurous, entrepreneurial folk who took risks and led lives that were, above all, interesting. Yet when I asked my family about this story recently, hoping to understand it better, another version emerged. Thornton told my Aunt Linnea that the family had moved to New Mexico in part for protection from Polly’s troubled mind. Once, when my dad was an infant, Thornton found Polly carrying him toward the ocean, intending to give him to it, to let the waves swallow his tiny body whole. In this version of the story, Thornton came here to escape the ocean, drawn by the sense of security that came not from what New Mexico had but from what it lacked: too much water.

As this spring wore on, though, the thirsty days piling up, this force that had lured my family here with its power to heal, and apparently, to protect, began to feel like a real threat. Halfway across the world, amid another deep, multi-year drought, the residents of Cape Town, South Africa, were anticipating “Day Zero,” when the city’s taps would run totally dry and residents would have to line up for water rations. Could that happen here? And if it did, what would become of this home we were building?

The house was our shelter, our first big project together, but it was also a foundation. We’d both chosen fulfilling careers that paid poorly, and if we wanted to travel, go out to eat, support a future child, make self-employment viable long term and generally not live in perpetual fear of our bank balance, we figured we should grow the modest money we made.

I got in touch with Kim Shanahan, the head of the Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association, to gauge how reality-based my fear was. It wasn’t that long ago that the developers and contractors he represents had faced their own demise. In 2002, a nail-bitingly dry year that followed several pitiful winters, Santa Fe’s aboveground reservoirs dipped precipitously low, and the city was draining groundwater through its wells at frightening rates. The city implemented water restrictions, and the citizenry aimed pitchforks at developers. If there wasn’t enough water for the people already here, they felt, there wasn’t a drop to spare for new homes. The city council debated whether to stop issuing building permits.

This year, though, for whatever reason, the city didn’t seem to be facing imminent crisis. Were water cuts or construction moratoriums on the horizon? Shanahan didn’t think so, and he told me something had changed: toilets. To deal with the water shortage and to avoid a building moratorium, the city purchased 10,000 low-flow toilets and offered them free to anyone who would replace an aging one. Then the city added a water conservation fee to utility bills that funds rebates for things like efficient clothes washers, fixtures, and rain barrels. The water saved through the program goes into a “bank,” and today builders have to buy offset credits from it so that water use doesn’t rise with new construction.

All this has allowed the city’s population to grow even as water consumption has declined. Combined with rules that limit outdoor watering and pricing that incentivizes conservation, Santa Fe has reduced its per capita consumption from 168 gallons per day in 1995 to 90 today. Crucially, it has also diversified its supply, piping water from the Colorado River Basin to the Rio Grande, allowing the city to rest wells and turn groundwater into drought insurance. So far, it’s worked.

“On a personal level, yeah, this is frightening,” Shanahan admitted. “I’ve never seen it so damn dry. But I’m feeling more bullish about our ability to be sustainable with diminishing resources.”

The city doesn’t have much choice but to try. An in-depth 2015 study of the risk climate change poses to Santa Fe’s water found that as the population continues to grow, the city and county’s supply could fall short of demand by as much as 3 billion gallons by 2055. That’s a lot — about equal to the city’s current annual consumption.

Strangely enough, though, learning all this made me less fearful. It helped to define the problem, and reminded me that we were agents in this mess, not blind victims. In that sense, the drought in Santa Fe had a strange upside: It forced the conversation. And the result so far seems to prove journalist John Fleck’s principle of water: When people have less, they use less. Even my husband was more adaptable than I’d expected, worrying as I had that the high desert would never satiate his desire for leafy canopies and grapefruit-size garden tomatoes. He told me recently that when we started looking at houses, he decided: Screw the consequences. “Look, if we all run out of water and lose everything,” he told a friend, “that’s just going to be part of our story.”

Colin had confronted the uncertainty by making peace with it. I was searching instead for objective information to confirm my fears that our move was misguided, our own act of climate change denial. But the question of whether we should stay or go was turning out to be complicated; even the angles that seemed straightforward weren’t. Shanahan pointed out that if water limited the city’s growth, the value of our home might go up.

That’s how supply and demand should work, Grady Gammage, a lawyer, water expert, and sometimes developer in Phoenix, told me. But the idea that there’s not enough water to build houses? “That’s going to scare people, so it might constrain demand.” Claudia Borchert, Santa Fe County’s sustainability manager, remarked over coffee that she’d just fielded a call from an anxious homeowner asking if his property value was safe. “Boy, in the short term, yes,” she told him. “In the long term, all bets are off. It won’t necessarily be that there’s no water, but will people want to live here?”

It occurred to me that the drought is a little like the Trump presidency. You know it’s bad, and that it could herald much worse. But in the present moment, life feels strangely normal. Sure, draconian water shortages and the demise of our democracy are real possibilities — not even distant ones — but you’re not really suffering. Not yet. It’s hard to tell how much you will. If this is your reality, as it is mine, you’re probably not an immigrant, or a farmer, or a tribal member, or poor, or sick, or brown-skinned. You’re lucky. The crisis is real, and it’s not.

In this limbo, I felt a melancholy that was both hard to identify and hard to shake. A hot day no longer felt like just a hot day, something that would pass. On a cloudless Saturday in May, shoppers at a plant nursery griped about how Santa Fe was becoming like Albuquerque, the sweatier city to our south. The heat seemed imbued with finality, a change that could not be undone.

My grandmother Polly died the year before I was born. After my dad’s birth, she suffered bouts of what the family calls “sickness.” Her illness was mental — schizophrenia, manic depression, or some other condition doctors didn’t understand. With her glasses on, she could see St. Peter. She wailed in bed. One night at the hospital, she continued to wail after doctors had pumped her full of enough sedatives to, as they told my parents, “kill a horse.”

My parents used to rent the house on the hill during the school year. Once, a renter abruptly moved out mid-lease, saying that Polly’s ghost had appeared over her bed in the middle of the night, growling at her to “get out.” As a kid, the haunting didn’t scare me. I thought it was awesome and hoped it was real. I secretly hated the renters: Nice as they were, I didn’t want them in our house or on our land.

My attachment to the place was always instinctual. My parents occasionally talked about selling it, daydreaming about what they’d do with the money. I reacted to these conversations defensively, like a coiled snake. I’m an only child, and I told them that when they died, it was what I would have left of my family. The house and the land would be my memory.

“Querencia,” the late New Mexico poet and historian Estevan Arellano has written, “is a place from which one’s strength of character is drawn. Folklore tells us that ‘no hay mejor querencia que tu corral,’ there is no better place than your corral — a typical saying that alludes to where someone is raised, the place of one’s memories, of one’s affections, of things one loves and, above all, where one feels safe.”

Staying put may not mean that Colin and I lose what we’ve put into our home, and it may not mean running out of water. But it may mean bearing witness to the slow death of the Rio Grande. It may mean biting our nails with the rest of the city every June, hoping this won’t be the year that a mushroom cloud of smoke rises from the Santa Fe Mountains, which are primed for a destructive fire. If the mountains do burn big and hot, and the tourists that are Colin’s customers stay away, it may mean recalibrating his business plan. It may mean more summer months when we can’t escape to the cool of the forest because the forest is closed. And it already means grappling with the more unsettling feelings that accumulate from these smaller worries.

In 2005, the Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht coined the term “solastalgia” to characterize the peculiar modern condition caused by circumstances like these — “a form of homesickness one gets when one is still at ‘home.’” Solastalgia describes a loss that is less tangible than psychic. “It is the pain experienced when there is recognition that the place where one resides and that one loves is under immediate assault,” Albrecht writes. “It is manifest in an attack on one’s sense of place, in the erosion of the sense of belonging to a particular place and a feeling of distress about its transformation.”

When the drought began in the late 1990s, my parents and I had stopped spending summers in Santa Fe. A couple of years into the drought, my uncle called to report that the piñon trees surrounding the house on the hill were dying. The news of the tree die-off inspired apprehension and a kind of fear — my dad said he was afraid to go back.

The total transformation of landscapes — and of a community’s sense of place — isn’t an abstract possibility in New Mexico. It’s already happened to communities in the Jemez Mountains, where a series of wildfires have torched the forests. And so on a Sunday afternoon, I visited a woman named Terry Foxx at the home she’s evacuated twice during recent burns, interrupting her afternoon sewing to ask about the aftermath.

Foxx has studied the fire ecology of the Jemez since the 1970s, and after the 2000 Cerro Grande Fire, which burned more than 400 homes in Los Alamos, she also became something of a community therapist. She collected fire stories and published them in a spiral-bound book. She gave community lectures on how life returns to the forest, and about the spiritual toll of landscape loss.

“There was grief, just intense grief,” Foxx told me. “Some people would say, ‘I have no right to be grieving because so-and-so lost their home.’ I thought, wait a second, we have all lost something. It was that mountain that used to have trees on it.”

Some people in Los Alamos did flee, though. Foxx told me about one couple who left because they loved trees and couldn’t stand to look at a mountain of blackened sticks. They moved to Colorado, right back into the pines. Others rebuilt, the fire strengthening their resolve to stay. When we experience loss, Foxx said, “It’s like, ‘What can I do?’ You either feel a deep sense of depression or, if you can, you find some way to help.” Two men formed a group called the Volunteer Task Force that rebuilt trails, planted trees, and pelted the burn scars with golf ball-size mash-ups of clay and wildflower seeds made by schoolchildren, nursing home residents, and others. It gave people a sense of ownership, Foxx told me, and of hope.

“Don’t get me wrong,” she said. “I believe we need to be doing everything we can to prevent polluting and changing our area. But regardless of what we do, nature is here. I say nature adjusts to change easier than we as humans do.”

The answers I sought, I began to understand, could not be found in climate studies, water plans, or market analyses, because my questions, my doubts, weren’t ultimately about logic or pragmatism. They were about love.

After leaving Terry Foxx’s House, I drove to the forest and hiked to the edge of a burn scar. I sat below a gnarled old ponderosa that had survived the fire, facing a hillside that looked like a moonscape, and wrote Colin a letter.

Ecologists call wildfires “disturbance events.” In nature, disturbance often gives rise to new life. The large aspen stands in the Sangre de Cristos facing Santa Fe, the trees whose colors help us measure the seasons, are there because a fire raced over the mountain, killing conifer stands whole. My marriage had been through its own disturbance event. For months, our conversation about children had not gone well. I wanted a child, but the idea made Colin anxious. He wasn’t ready yet, and unsure that he ever would be. I was hurt by his reluctance.

One night, I blurted out a tearful and angry ultimatum, without knowing whether I meant it. It bruised him in a way that one apology, then another, couldn’t quite heal. Eventually, though, the difficult conversations grew more honest and empathetic. We turned toward each other, closing the raw space between us, and as we did, we felt more in love. Still, the issue was unresolved. Some days, I was fine with that. Others, I’d be struck by a sudden and profound sadness.

The night before had been one of those nights, so I decided to write what was hard for me to say. I told him that if we didn’t have a kid, I still wanted to buy the weedy dirt patch next door together and build a studio and make it beautiful. And if we did have a kid, I wanted Colin to teach them to make buttermilk biscuits, to hear them squeal as he chased them around the yard like a deranged zombie. He cried when he read the letter, and then he baked me a perfect apple pie.

I began to think that our relationships with places aren’t so different from our relationships with people. They are emotional and particular. Over time, there is tumult. That has been true for as long as people have lived on the side of volcanoes or in deserts or on top of tectonic faults. What’s both hard and hopeful about this new tumult is that, unlike an eruption, a natural drought cycle, or an earthquake, it’s not inevitable. The change is the result of the choice we are making to continue our carbon binge.

The disturbance in my marriage had ultimately deepened our commitment to our joined lives. And maybe the same should be true of our relationships with our places. A better response than running might be to spend more time walking the forests and canyons of the landscapes we love, even as they change, to engage more deeply, to fight for them. After all, leaving might not be a form of protection but just another form of loss.

After my parents retired a few years ago, their desire to come home overrode any fear of what they’d find there. They’re living in the Santa Fe house again — back in their “corral” — and the tree die-off wasn’t as bad as they’d feared. The junipers are toughing it out, and some piñons survived. A decent number of piñons are even re-sprouting in the shelter of old junipers.

There was something else, too: a weed that popped up near the front door. My dad didn’t recognize it, but he didn’t pull it up. Then one day, it erupted in purple flowers. It was a native wildflower called desert four o’clock, and he thought it might be Polly, signaling her approval that they were back. Every year since, it has returned. And every year, it has bloomed.

This essay is adapted from an article in High Country News.

Cally Carswell is a freelance science and environmental journalist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a longtime contributing editor at High Country News.

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6640 Green Glen Dr, Walls, MS

Price: $119000

Great home in Lake Forest sd. 3 bedroom, 2 bath with new roof, cabinets, carpet, hot water heater and appliances. Very south after area of Walls.

6884 Black Oak Dr, Walls, MS

Price: $174900

This is an excellent family home! There is a fenced in back yard with a playground for kids, a spacious apartment with separate entrance and kitchen for visiting relatives and friends, a RV or camper hookup for guests, a two car garage with storage and work space for him, and two walk-in closets and jacuzzi bath in the master suite for her! All of this on a great corner lot in an excellent school district. Choice Home Warranty included through January 3, 2018. Will not last long! For more information call or text (662) 357-8156.

7435 Hickory Estates Dr, Walls, MS

Price: $224900

This Single-Family Home is located at 7435 Hickory Estates Drive, Walls, MS. 7435 Hickory Estates Dr is in the 38680 ZIP code in Walls, MS. The average listing price for ZIP code 38680 is $158,168. 7435 Hickory Estates Dr has approximately 2,978 square feet

5785 Cedar Lake Dr, Walls, MS

Price: $285000

Lots of room for a growing family. Large in-ground pool, on 1.22 acres. Four bedrooms on one floor. Split bedroom plan. Hardwood floors in the family room, Foyer, and Dining room. New carpet in the bedrooms, This home has been re-modeled. Large kitchen with granite tile counter tops, tile flooring. The master suite is separate from the other three bedrooms. The master bath has been totally remodeled. Including a soaking tub, sep. shower, and double sinks. Huge walk-in closet. The upstairs includes a large bedroom, sep. bath and walk-in closet. Beautiful treed lot with a view of the lake . This home is great for entertaining with large rooms.

6124 Hallum Dr, Walls, MS

Price: $123750

3 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, open split floor plan with ceramic tile entry, vaulted ceilings, great room with corner fire place w/ tv niche, wood floors, kitchen with lots of cabinets, pantry, bay window in dining area, spacious master bedroom, master bath has separate shower, jetted tub and walk-in closet, privacy fenced back yard. bedrooms have new carpet. no city taxes! eligibile for 100% mortgage loan. seller will pay 3% towards buyers closing cost and provide home warranty with full price offer. $1500 dÉcor allowance payable at close to lowes or buyers contractor of choice with full pirce offer. owner agent relationship/owner is related to a realtor.

10516 Cantata Dr, Walls, MS

Price: $124900

Great floor plan that is open with lots of windows that look out over the large back yard and lake. This is a split bedroom plan with an oversize master bath with jacuzzi tub and separate shower. There is an expandable upstairs that is unfinished. Great location, close to Casinos and Downtown Memphis. This is a short sale, and the price has not been approved by the lender.

5500 Poplar Corner Rd, Walls, MS

Price: $58000

Looking for a 5 acre lot amid nice homes to build your dream home? OWNER HAS CLEARED THE LOT AND CORNERS ARE MARKED. Lot has wide road frontage on Poplar Corner Rd., just minutes from the interstate and Baptist Desoto Hospital, Tanger Mall and other areas. Drive out anytime!

7725 Goodman Rd, Walls, MS

Price: $150000

Great investment opportunity YOU MUST HAVE LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT PRESENT TO VIEW PROPERTY . offers 4 bed 3 bath with 6 car garage with Tiled inground pool has a elevator for private master suite . master also offers a fireplace for those cold nights .GRAND STAIRCASE LEADING UPSTAIRS . LARGE BONUS ROOM WITH FIREPLACE AND SKYLIGHTS . PROPERTY NEEDS TLC . LARGE BRICK FRONT & BACK PORCH. HOME DOES NOT SIT ON GOODMAN ROAD HOME DOES NOT HAVE FRONTAGE ON GOODMAN ROAD . PROPERTY IS NEED OF REPAIR .

7280 Hickory Estates Dr, Walls, MS

Price: $149900

Presenting this newly renovated, 3 bedroom, home that is located in quiet Lake Forest subdivision in Walls, MS The 1963 sf (per appraiser) of original structure, plus an additional 561 sf (meets ANSI appraisal standards, heated and cooled) make this one of, if not the largest, single story home in the area. Situated on a large, 1.45 acre, tree filled lot, there is lots of room to raise a family or entertain a large group. It has country serenity with city amenities and is located in a USDA area. Only 3-4 minutes from the new Wal-Mart Super Center in Horn Lake, it is close to everything. Got Pets? The entire home is floored with stain resistant, scratch resistant, easy care ceramic tile. Check out the photos and schedule a showing today.

5611 Highway 301, Walls, MS

Price: $1200000

Great Property

8745 Lakeshore Dr, Walls, MS

Price: $39900

Wonderful treed lot with lake view and lake privileges. No city taxes. Located in a small & secluded subdivision, Country living and privacy but close to the city!

7385 Wendy Way, Walls, MS

Price: $159000

LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION! Convenient to Casinos, Memphis and Southaven without the high traffic Two master bedrooms, Could use as Mother-in-law suite, both with full baths and walk in closets, and an additional bedroom and full bath! Large living room with gas fireplace, separate dining room, and eat in kitchen! 2” wood blinds throughout. Beautiful hardwood flooring throughout and tile in the kitchen! Large 18×18 screened in patio that overlooks beautiful backyard and wooded area! Two large 11×9 sheds in the backyard as well! Remodeled in 2013 including new roof!

7988 Tyler Cv, Walls, MS

Price: $165000

Lakefront Living in Walls. Great Looking super clean home 3 bedrooms 2 bathrooms with a bonus room on a lake front lot in Walls. As you enter this home you will see beautiful wood floors that flow throughout much of the home. The living room has natural lighting and neutral paint and a pop of color along the accent wall. The breakfast area has a bayed window and overlooks the back patio and deck. The kitchen has great cabinet space, under mount lighting, separate pantry and a breakfast bar. The master bedroom has laminate wood flooring and is a great size and has a salon bath with doubl e bowl vanity, corner jetted tub, over sized shower, separate toilet area, and large walk in closet. Bedrooms 2 and 3 are a nice size with new carpet and good closet space. The bonus room isupstairs and it currently used as a secondary living area. This home has and awesome covered back porch and stained deck for all of your family and friend get togethers. Appointments scheduled Friday through Monday only.

5123 Goodman Rd, Walls, MS

Price: $576700

5.123 acres zoned c-1 commercial for business park

Soaring Oaks, Walls, MS

Price: $421590

Great investment

7721 Morningside Cv, Walls, MS

Price: $159900

Remarks: NO CITY TAXES. ”0” DOWN AVAILABLE THRU THE USDA RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. FOUR BEDROOM SPLIT PLAN WITH TWO FULL BATHS ON A GREAT LOT. FINISHED BONUS ROOM CAN BE USED AS 4TH BEDROOM. EAT-IN KITCHEN WITH LARGE PANTRY. FIREPLACE IN GREAT ROOM WITH GAS LOGS. MASTER BATH HAS DOUBLE SINKS, WALK-IN SHOWER & MARBLE WHIRLPOOL TUB. SEPARATE LAUNDRY ROOM. TILE FLOORS IN ALL THE WET AREAS. SELF CLEANING ELECTRIC RANGE, SPACE SAVER MICROWAVE, DISHWASHER & DISPOSAL. CEILING FAN IN GREAT ROOM. PRETTY DECORATIVE TREY CEILING IN MASTER BEDROOM WITH CEILING FAN. FINISHED BONUS ROOM MEASURES A PPROX. 13 X 16. SODDED YARD. PATIO. ONE YEAR BUILDERS WARRANTY.

7774 Morningside Cv, Walls, MS

Price: $159900

all brick 3 bedroom split plan. two full baths. great room has fireplace with gas logs & ceiling fan. large eat-in kitchen with bay window. kitchen features built-in microwave, dishwasher, self cleaning electric range & disposal. large pantry in the separate laundry closet. tile floors in the wet areas. master bedroom has trey ceiling with ceiling fan. master bath features two walk-in closets, double sinks, separate shower & marble whirlpool. finished bonus/4th bedroom measures approx. 12 x 17. fully sodded yard with patio & gutters. one year builders warranty. built on 16” centers wit h 2 x 4 studs throughout the entire home.

7766 Morningside Cv, Walls, MS

Price: $159900

all brick 3 bedroom split plan. two full baths. great room has fireplace with gas logs & ceiling fan. large eat-in kitchen with bay window. kitchen features built-in microwave, dishwasher, self cleaning electric range & disposal. large pantry in the separate laundry closet. tile floors in the wet areas. master bedroom has trey ceiling with ceiling fan. master bath features two walk-in closets, double sinks, separate shower & marble whirlpool. finished bonus/4th bedroom measures approx. 12 x 17. fully sodded yard with patio & gutters. one year builders warranty. built on 16” centers wit h 2 x 4 studs throughout the entire home.

8895 Oakchase Cv, Walls, MS

Price: $289900

Beautiful treed lot with lots of privacy. Located in a Lake community. This is a large home for a growing family. This home offers 5 bedrooms and a game room. The downstairs family room and formal dining room offer hardwood floors. Large kitchen w/ a breakfast bar and large windows across the back for extra light. There is a private office. Three bedrooms down. Beautiful staircase that leads to two bedrooms and a bonus room. The windows have been replaced. Large open windows all across the back for the view of the woods and privacy. Enjoy cooking on the jenn-air cooktop. Extra trim pack age thru-out. All brick for low maintenance. Enjoy entertaining with lots of shade in the summer.

6711 Hickory Crest Dr, Walls, MS

Price: $98887

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