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.

Suburb Sunday: Why Keller Is a Great Community

By Shelby Skrhak / May 12, 2019 /

For this week’s Suburb Sunday, we’re headed to the bedroom community of Keller. This quiet city of 45,000 residents has no major highway running through it, which helps keep this community of active neighborhoods among the best places to live in Texas. Check out these three great homes that show how lovely life can be…

Jump on This Just-Listed Devonshire MCM Home With an Amazing Price

By Shelby Skrhak / May 11, 2019 /

Some homes just leap off the page and get you excited for all its possibilities. This 1,879-square-foot midcentury home at 5736 Stonegate Road in Devonshire went on the market less than 24 hours ago for $650,000, nearly $200k under 2019 county appraisal value. Rob Scrickel of Ebby Halliday listed this three-bedroom, three-bath that had just one…

Saint Johns Spanish Villa Is Stunning Inside and Out

By Shelby Skrhak / May 10, 2019 /

This 6,115-square-foot Mediterranean at 3420 Saint Johns Drive in Highland Park looks so classically southern California, you’d swear it was a 1930s Spanish villa in L.A.. This five-bedroom, five-bath, and two-half-bath beauty near SMU is listed for $2.9 million by Rogers Healy and Associates. A winding wrought-iron staircase impresses as soon as you walk through…

Unique Midcentury Capsule in Irving Is a Cosmic Gem

By Shelby Skrhak / May 9, 2019 /

Fix yourself a cocktail at the smoked glass bar and come take a look at this part-time capsule, part-updated home in the heart of Irving listed by Blaine Soileau of Dallas City Center Realtors for this week’s Thursday 300. Working on last week’s Suburb Sunday featuring Irving, I came across this stunning mid-century style home…

Here Are Three Irving Neighborhoods and Homes You’ll Love

By Shelby Skrhak / May 5, 2019 /

For this week’s Suburb Sunday, we found fabulously diverse architecture in these three Irving homes in the popular neighborhoods of Hackberry Creek in north Irving near 114, Fox Glen in central Irving near O’Connor Road, and University Hills in east Irving near the University of Dallas. Which do you prefer? A Mid-Century Modern Marvel in…