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.

Frisco’s Tapestry Homes Offer Terrace Gardens as Living Architecture

By Shelby Skrhak / March 29, 2026 /

In Frisco, there’s a unique neighborhood where the roofs are made of grass and a cascading terrace garden is built into every home. We’ve told you about Tapestry before, but it’s worth taking a closer look at just how different these homes are — and explaining what a cantilevered terrace garden actually is. I’ll come…

Dallas Institution Weir’s Furniture Is Closing; Going-Out-of-Business Sale Starts Today

By Shelby Skrhak / March 26, 2026 /

All four North Texas stores will close by early summer, and the company owns the real estate under every location — leaving some valuable properties likely to change hands. Weir’s Furniture, the place where generations of Dallas families furnished their homes — and Country Store popcorn placated their children — is closing after 78 years…

Longtime Texas Rangers Voice Eric Nadel Lists His Dallas Les Jardins Home

By Shelby Skrhak / March 25, 2026 /

Like an unofficial soundtrack of Texas summers, if you’ve listened to a Texas Rangers game anytime in the last four decades, you’ve heard the voice of Eric Nadel. Now the Hall of Fame broadcaster is parting with a different kind of home field — the North Dallas home that he and his wife, Jeannie, rebuilt…

Louisiana’s Live! Casino Hotel Bets Big on Dallas

By Shelby Skrhak / March 15, 2026 /

Before there was Durant and Thackerville, there was Shreveport and Bossier City. This was before the sprawling Oklahoma complexes of Choctaw and WinStar became Dallas’s gold standard for a gambling getaway. In the nineties and early aughts, Dallasites often made the I-20 trek to Louisiana’s Red River, where casino neon lights reflected off the river…

Century 21 Judge Fite Acquires Healy Property Management Following Rogers Healy Merger

By Shelby Skrhak / March 11, 2026 /

When the Rogers Healy and Associates brand merged into Compass last month, it didn’t just reshape the brokerage landscape in Dallas. It also set off a quiet reshuffling of related businesses — including Healy Property Management, which has now been acquired by Century 21 Judge Fite Company. The deal adds the Healy portfolio to Century…