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Heights resident and Realtor
with Reyna Realty Group. She
and her husband, Dave, had
toured Eagleton’s Nadine Lofts
(featured in November 2005
Houston House & Home) near the
Airline Farmers Market and
admired the Nadines’ two-story
screened porches, but they wanted
more space and room for a
pool.
“Let me show you my next
generation of lofts,” Eagleton
told Sandy, who viewed the
drawings for the Butterfly Lofts
and said yes. Sandy even found
the site for the Butterfly Lofts
and sold the second loft to one of
her real estate clients.
The Steitzes had owned nine
different houses in Houston
through the years, most recently
a large Queen Anne in the
Heights. When their sons grew
up and Sandy and Dave became
empty nesters, they decided to
downsize and began looking for
lofts or townhouses. “We wanted
something a lot more lock-andleave,”
Sandy says.
A HOME FOR FOLK ART
The Steitzes had been living in
traditional-style houses, and
Sandy has a large collection of
American folk art. Would the
Butterfly Lofts’ modern lines
work with her traditional art
and furnishings? She wanted to
try. As Eagleton points out, the
clean modern lines of the
American Folk Art Museum in
New York City are a perfect foil
LEFT: “Obviously, I hate matchy
matchy,” says Sandy of her art and
furnishings. She calls this part of
the dining room the carnival
section for its whimsy. In the corner
is a model of a circus merry-goround
a Heights father built for his
daughter; Sandy found it at a local
antiques store. Above the armoire
hangs a patchwork velvet cape, “a
‘60s hippy cape,” she says. She
found it at Mercader’s Antiques on
Ashland. Heights artist Keith Crane
made the dining table base from
scrap metal. “Very Heights-y,” says
Sandy.