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.

Centre Living @ Lakewood: See Inside This Modern Neighborhood of Just Six Homes

By Shelby Skrhak / October 29, 2019 /

Sleek and simply modern, that’s how you could describe the six new homes that makeup Centre Living at Lakewood, an exclusive new project designed by the award-winning Dallas-based architecture firm FAR+DANG. Located at Swiss Ave and La Vista, the new Centre Living Homes community is a mix of two single-family homes and four duplex homes. The…

Try Addison for Affordable Rentals Near North Dallas

By Shelby Skrhak / October 27, 2019 /

Since Sunday night, almost the minute that the tornado sirens went off across North Dallas and surrounding cities, we started posting information on our social pages and website to help the many thousands of readers affected directly by this multi-tornadic storm like we’ve never seen before. For this week’s edition of Suburb Sunday, we looked…

This Farmers Branch Home Could Be Great Option for Storm-Affected Family

By Shelby Skrhak / October 26, 2019 /

With families displaced after Sunday’s series of tornadoes, real estate agents are scrambling to help clients find temporary housing. Here’s an option: This Farmers Branch home that’s for lease and sale is just minutes away from Preston Hollow on the other side of 635/LBJ. Victor Aves of Pegasus Realty Inc. has listed the nearly 4,000-square-foot…

Jog to White Rock Lake From This Renovated Midcentury in Eastwood

By Shelby Skrhak / October 24, 2019 /

Jog out your front door and decide whether you want to make it a short run through the shaded trail in Lake Highlands Park steps away, or make it a longer run several blocks away with views of White Rock Lake at your side. Those are the types of decisions you’ll make with this week’s…

Hill Country-esque Custom in Argyle is This Week’s High Caliber Home

By Shelby Skrhak / October 23, 2019 /

Courtney Tauriac of Compass RE Texas describes her listing at 316 Boonesville Bend in Argyle as the perfect mix of rural country living with suburb convenience. We agree and that’s why this nearly 4,000-square-foot Argyle home on a quarter-acre is this week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, presented by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home…