Saturday shelterporn

Given that there are jackasses determined to tear down all the old homes along Heights Boulevard, we figured it wouldn't be a bad idea to give you a way to protect a little bit of the Boulevard's history — all it takes is an appreciation for beautiful homes and a pretty good chunk of change. Start checking under the couch cushions now!

This restored Heights Boulevard home was built around 1905 (not in 1929, like the county thinks). It has some great turn-of-the-century features: high ceilings, Victorian woodwork, a great front porch overlooking the Boulevard and a really cool star inlaid in the hardwood floor of the entrance hall. There are modern touches, too: a kitchen with stainless appliances, granite countertops and glass-front cabinets, a master suite you could get lost in and an enormous "great room" with built-in shelves, a fireplace and French doors opening onto the back yard. (There are also plantation shutters and crown molding, just to make sure you know this place is fancy, like your friends' McMansions in Katy.)

The backyard is pretty big and has a large deck — and with the doors to the great room open, we imagine it would be a pretty sweet setup for entertaining. But this is also a house where you could raise a family, with three bedrooms (and the potential for a fourth, if you convert the second-floor study, and a fifth if you build out the unfinished attic). We'd love to live here, but we're just about — well, $624,899 short. Anyone wanna help us out? Bedrooms: three. Bathrooms: three. Square feet: 3,152. Price: $624,900.

Open house: The house will be open from 5 to 9 p.m. tomorrow tonight — stop in and check it out for yourself, at 1214 Heights Blvd.