Shelby Skrhak

Shelby Skrhak is executive editor of CandysDirt.com and producer of the Dallas Dirt podcast. She loves covering estate sales and murder homes, not necessarily related. As a lifelong Dallas native, she's been an Eagle, Charger, Wildcat, and a Comet.

Now This Is a Backyard Cabana

By Shelby Skrhak / October 9, 2020 /

Right now, we know it’s next to impossible to get a pool installed quickly because the demand has never been higher. So naturally, homes with pools are hot, hot, hot listings. What about a White Rock home with a backyard that’ll make you feel like you’re in Playa year-round? This week’s Inwood Home of the…

A University Park Cottage Transformed Down to the Studs

By Shelby Skrhak / October 8, 2020 /

A scrapper. That’s how Debbie Grayson, founder of TLC Contract Group, describes the home at 3404 Purdue Avenue in University Park at first glance. But upon a closer look and realizing its potential, she knew the 1930-built home was a real keeper. “The house just needed some help,” she says. She took the house down…

This Sprawling JanMar MCM Is Inspired

By Shelby Skrhak / October 2, 2020 /

Ring-a-ding-ding, this midcentury house selected as the High Caliber Home of the Week sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans is simply delicious. Built in 1959, this midcentury modern home at 11410 Saint Michaels Drive is located in JanMar, one of our favorite North Dallas neighborhoods at Hillcrest and Forest. Known for its hills…

Perfectly Located Home on Partridge Place with a Pool

By Shelby Skrhak / September 22, 2020 /

Carrollton is one of those cities that’s so centrally located that you could work anywhere from Downtown Dallas to far west Plano to DFW Airport or anywhere in between and have an easy commute. This week’s Inwood Home of the Week, sponsored by Inwood National Bank is a three-bedroom, 2,384-square-foot home listed by Bobbie Jo…

Nothing’s Junior About This 1939 East Kessler Home

By Shelby Skrhak / September 16, 2020 /

Do you see that subtle flash of white stone and window frame in the far right background? That’s this week’s High Caliber Home of the Week sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans, nestled deep into a 1.15-acre lot at 1606 Junior Drive in Oak Cliff. On the market for the first time in…