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.

Unbelievable Skyline Views From This Contemporary Perched Atop West Kessler Heights

By Shelby Skrhak / November 27, 2019 /

Couldn’t you just kiss the sky with this view? Courtney Tauriac of Compass has this week’s listing for the High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans, a beautifully-designed home perched atop the rocky bluffs of Highgrove at West Kessler Heights, full of garden homes and urban loft-style villa homes in North…

This Bluffview House Is Pending Contract and Now Everything Inside Is For Sale

By Shelby Skrhak / November 24, 2019 /

The founder and owner of Dallas-based St. Bernard Sports is downsizing from his gorgeous Wilson Fuqua-designed home in Bluffview and Highland Park Market Estate Sales is helping sell the family’s beautiful collection of home furniture and decor they describe as “nothing short of WOW!” The home at 4704 Wildwood, listed for $3.095 million by LeeLee Gioia…

The Fabulous Estate of Derrill Osborn Is Mysterious Like the Fashion Icon

By Shelby Skrhak / November 23, 2019 /

This is an estate sale as intriguing as the man himself. From the moment I read this controversial full-page, full-color obituary in the Dallas Morning News, which was written and hand-delivered to the newspaper downtown earlier by the deceased himself, I knew the estate sale of Mr. Derrill Osborn would be epic.  The venerable icon of international…

Winnetka Historic Beauty Is in Perfect Tune

By Shelby Skrhak / November 22, 2019 /

Some homes have backyard guest quarters for mother in laws, college kids, or kids who never left the nest. But the guest quarters behind this week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans, was built as a sound-proof recording studio in the early 2000s for its previous musician…

Renovators’ Dream MCM Home Is Now Even More Irresistible

By Shelby Skrhak / November 21, 2019 /

Maybe you saved this home on Zillow or saved it to your favorites on the Realtor.com app and forgot to come back and study it. But this 1955-built midcentury modern home on Sylvania Drive in East Dallas deserves another look because since we last featured it as Inwood National Bank’s Home of the Week three months…