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.

50s Home Brought to Life by Husband and Wife Team of East Dallas Modern

By Shelby Skrhak / December 4, 2019 /

We’re big fans of East Dallas Modern, the husband and wife team of Stesha and Daniel Gearner, who left corporate America several years ago and turned their attention full-time to renovating midcentury homes. They’ve got a knack of turning around dated homes with style and time-period touches as they’ve done with more than a dozen…

The Three Most Expensive Homes for Sale in Collin County

By Shelby Skrhak / December 1, 2019 /

Texas has the third-highest number of billionaires in the United States, behind New York and California of course, and more than our fair share of millionaires live in North Texas. While Westlake and Southlake are known as cities with some of the highest average incomes among us, the Collin County cities of Plano, Frisco, and…

This JanMar Home on Saint Judes Was Hiding in Plain Sight

By Shelby Skrhak / November 30, 2019 /

A few months ago I attended an estate sale here where I was more enchanted by the house than the treasure inside. This is that house. Albeit, it’s hard to tell behind the overgrown trees in front, this 3,466-square-foot home on a .37 acre lot is gorgeous. The four-bedroom, four-bath on Saint Judes Drive at…

A Bentley Place Villa in Greenway Parks for Under a Million!?

By Shelby Skrhak / November 28, 2019 /

Funny coincidence that this week’s Inwood National Bank Home of the Week is steps away from the long-time home office of the Dallas-based banking institution that was established in 1964. It’s also walking distance to the dining, entertainment, and shopping in Inwood Village. But we really chose to feature the Bentley Place villa on Inwood Road…

The Architect Index: Dallas Homes Designed by Modernist Bud Oglesby

By Shelby Skrhak / November 28, 2019 /

Dallas Modernist Architect Bud Oglesby knew how to do light right. For this first in the Architect Index series on Dallas architects’ most magnificent homes, we’re chronicling the Dallas homes designed by Bud Oglesby. The Dallas modernist architect’s homes are often fixtures on the AIA Home Tour for good reason. Well-thought-out natural light is a signature…