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.
For a while there, home theaters were touch and go. Once a staple of 1990s and 2000s-built custom homes, anybody who was anybody had a dedicated home theater room with a few step-down rows of theater-style seating and a few kitschy movie posters on the windowless walls. Soon, the trend in home theaters evolved. Instead…
Location is everything, as they say. This lovely 2009 Hill Country ranch-style home at 6908 Kenwood Ave. in the heart of Lakewood, is a short distance from White Rock Lake, downtown, Lakewood Elementary, retail and delicious dining, including Meso Maya, Dream Café, Hillside Tavern, and the soon-to-open Hudson House. But other features are equally “everything,”…
Homeowner Adie Buchanan has flair for painting rooms in fantastic colors. In her last home, the local HR manager converted an entire bedroom into a dream closet with hot pink-painted walls and a chandelier. “I love bright colors, but in a smaller space,” she says. “It makes it a fun space that can be easily…
Leaving the corporate world behind to become an entrepreneur doesn’t seem like a huge leap. But Madison Gardner, a third-generation Park Cities denizen, left a career in management consulting and private equity to purchase a Dallas landscaping company that was founded long before he was even born. Now the Highland Park High School class of…
Nora Lane of Allie Beth Allman describes this week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, a four-bedroom, five and half-bath, as comfortable, cool, and different in a great way. “No cookie-cutter home here,” the listing agent says. Can I get an Amen? Nestled in a quiet cul-de-sac in Lake Highlands, you’ll fall in love with…
