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.

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…

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…