“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” That phrase from Oscar Wilde perfectly embodies today’s Tarrant County Tuesday. Ask anyone in the home building or designing world and they’ll tell you that it’s a difficult task to try and recreate a certain style or genre not indigenous to their area.
In every Dallas-Fort Worth neighborhood, there are countless attempts to imitate or recreate a style of home that originated far from Texas. Over and over again you can find failure after failure of homes pretending to be French, Spanish, Mediterranean, Tudor, or Craftsman — sometimes all at once.