The cabinet knobs were the first thing to go. D Home editorial director Jamie Laubhan-Oliver also reported that the copper sconces she was eyeing were scooped shortly after the sale kicked off in September. But as Dallas mourns the demolition of our city’s quirkiest, most magical home, designed by architect Tom Workman in the 1990s to be his personal residence, plenty of architectural goodies from the “Mushroom House” are still up for grabs at one of our favorite salvage shops, Discount Home Warehouse.
There are arched doors aplenty—purple doors, turquoise doors, hand-painted glass doors, and even the double front entry doors. There are stained glass windows and a retro breakfast nook with built-in, swing-out seats. There are more Art Deco-inspired iron panels than you can shake a custom-designed drawer pull at. There are kitchen cabinets, two (!) purple toilets, and a staggering amount of sconces, all of which are as whimsical as the home they were crafted for.
When D Magazine posted about the demolition of the Mushroom Houses on Instagram last week, there was an outpouring of sadness (and quite a bit of anger) in the comments, mainly bemoaning the lack of preservation for a Highland Park home that, beyond being architecturally significant, was simply unique. The demolition is done, but the charm can persevere. “That’s how Tom Workman’s legacy lives on, is in the parts and pieces rather than in the whole,” Dallas architect Larry Good told D Magazine prior to the demolition of Workman’s dream home. Maybe that’s on your walls, or in your bathroom, or the front doorway of another special Dallas house…