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Title (60ch): Fireplace Portfolio — Dallas Park Cities & Preston Hollow | TSE
Meta Description (150ch): A curated portfolio of fireplace restorations, mantel redesigns, and whole-hearth renovations across Highland Park, University Park, and Preston Hollow.

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Portfolio

A working record of premium fireplace work across Dallas

The fireplace inside a Highland Park Tudor or a Preston Hollow estate is rarely a fixture you replace. It is a piece of the architecture you inherit, and the way it is treated is one of the quiet measures of how a house has been kept. The portfolio below is a working record of the fireplace projects Texas Service Experts has completed across the Park Cities, Preston Hollow, Bluffview, Lakewood, Devonshire, Volk Estates, and the historic streets of Old Preston Hollow.

We publish this portfolio for two audiences. Homeowners use it to see what a sympathetic restoration of a 1928 Tudor revival mantel actually looks like, or how a mid-century firebox in Bluffview can be modernized without erasing its lineage. Designers and architects use it to vet a craftsman before specifying us into a project. Either way, the work shown here is the work — photographed in place, attributed where partners have agreed to be named, and described in the level of material and architectural detail the projects deserve.

To discuss your own project, call our design team at 214-444-8094 or browse the case studies indexed below.

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Browse the portfolio

The portfolio can be filtered by neighborhood, project type, architectural era, and primary materials. Each filter cross-references the others, so a search for “Tudor revival, Highland Park, limestone” returns only the projects that meet all three.

By neighborhood
Highland Park · University Park · Preston Hollow · Bluffview · Lakewood · Devonshire · Volk Estates · Old Preston Hollow · White Rock Lake

By project type
Mantel & surround restoration · Whole-hearth renovation · Wood-to-gas conversion · Outdoor fireplace design · Multi-fireplace estate work · Period-correct rebuild

By architectural era

Pre-war (1915–1942) · Mid-century (1942–1975) · Late-20th-century traditional · Contemporary new build

By primary material

Lueders limestone · Cordova Cream · Carrara marble · Hand-troweled plaster · Cast bronze and brass · Custom millwork

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Featured case studies

The six projects below are the ones we point to first when asked to characterize the practice. Each links to a full case study with before, process, materials, timeline, and outcome.

1. Highland Park Tudor restoration — 1928 Beverly Drive estate

The original carved limestone surround had been painted over three times across nine decades. The firebox was decommissioned. The clay flue had a hairline crack we found on a Level 2 inspection">Level 2 inspection. The owner wanted the room returned to its 1928 condition without losing the ability to actually use the fireplace. We hand-stripped the limestone, rebuilt the firebox in matching Cordova Cream, relined the flue with stainless, and converted the system to a clean gas log set sized to the period of the house. Six-week timeline. Read the full case study.

2. Preston Hollow modern limestone surround

A new-build modern in Preston Hollow with a 14-foot great-room volume needed a single-slab limestone surround that read as a sculptural element rather than a traditional mantel. Working from the architect’s elevation, we sourced and finished a 9-foot Lueders block, installed a low-profile linear gas firebox behind it, and detailed the meeting of stone to drywall as a shadow gap. Read the full case study.

3. University Park Georgian fireplace rebuild

A 1936 Georgian on Lovers Lane had a fluted mantel that had been removed in a 1970s remodel and replaced with a flat oak surround. Working from period photographs supplied by the homeowner, we rebuilt the original mantel and overmantel, restored the marble slip, and brought the firebox dimensions back to historically correct proportions. Read the full case study.

4. Bluffview mid-century firebox conversion

A 1958 ranch in Bluffview with the original brick firebox, original screen, and original gas-log starter — and a homeowner who wanted to keep all of it visually but use the fireplace daily. We converted the system to a sealed direct-vent firebox hidden inside the original brick aperture, kept the screen as a decorative element, and added a remote-controlled gas log that reads as period-correct. Read the full case study.

5. Old Preston Hollow French chateau mantel

A French Eclectic estate on Park Lane required a hand-carved limestone mantel sized to a 12-foot wall. The mantel was carved off-site by a stone atelier we have worked with for over a decade, then dry-fit, adjusted, and set in a single day to minimize household disruption. Read the full case study.

6. Preston Hollow whole-hearth renovation across three fireplaces

A single estate, three working fireplaces — principal living room, primary suite, and loggia — each in different architectural condition and each requiring a different solution. The project was scoped, sequenced, and completed across one continuous build window, coordinated with the resident interior designer. Read the full case study.

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Designer and architect collaborations

A meaningful share of the portfolio is built in collaboration with Dallas’s interior designers, residential architects, and custom builders. Where partners have agreed to be credited, attributions appear on the individual case-study pages. Where they have asked to remain unnamed, the work is shown without attribution. We treat designer and architect relationships as long-term — the same firms specify us project after project — and the Designer Partnerships program governs how trade pricing, project management, and gallery sharing work for those collaborations.

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How to use the portfolio

If you are a homeowner considering a fireplace project, the most useful thing you can do is identify two or three case studies that read as architecturally adjacent to your own house, then bring those references to the design conversation. We work from references — yours and ours — rather than from generic mood boards.

If you are a designer or architect evaluating us for a project, the case studies are the work product. They are accurate to what was built, photographed in place after final commissioning, and include the partner attribution where applicable. We are happy to walk a completed project in person on request, subject to the homeowner’s permission.

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Begin a conversation

Every project on this page started as a phone call or an email. To begin yours, reach the design team at 214-444-8094, email service@texasserviceexperts.com, or use the contact form. Initial conversations are unbilled and typically take 30 to 45 minutes.

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