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.

Simple Updates Turn a West Plano Traditional Home Into a Timeless Transitional

By Shelby Skrhak / August 2, 2023 /

This week’s Highlight Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Cardinal Financial takes us to West Plano where Michael Bepko of Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate has this beautifully-updated listing that has the #homeinspo part of my brain spinning. The home at 5905 Fossil Ridge garnered multiple offers in its five days on the…

Sunlit Atrium, Stone Fireplace, and Shed-Style Roof? You Had Me at Atrium

By Shelby Skrhak / July 26, 2023 /

Once every few months, I ask Lisa Peters, the venerable Dallas mortgage broker at Cardinal Financial, if I can borrow a million dollars. It’s to purchase a new favorite home that she’s sent me as the Highlight Home of the Week she sponsors on CandysDirt.com. Apparently, text messages don’t constitute mortgage applications. However, my loss…

It’s HOT in McKinney as 3rd New H-E-B Opens, Four More to Come PLUS Dallas

By Shelby Skrhak / July 22, 2023 /

Yesterday WFAA meteorologist Pete Delkus set fire to McKinney. A typo set the temperature in McKinney at 101,105 degrees but he wasn’t too far off. As H-E-B enthusiasts know, McKinney was the hottest place to be this week as the third new H-E-B location opened on Eldorado Pkwy. Until it melted apparently. Dallas-Fort Worth welcomed…

Contemporary Sylvan Ave. Home Stays in Touch With Its Turn-of-the-Century Past

By Shelby Skrhak / July 19, 2023 /

Everyone knows that Oak Cliff has some of the best topography and native landscape in the city, but I found some compelling proof in quite literally, black and white. Yes dear readers, this is another of my historical storytelling rabbit holes into the Dallas Morning News archives from the past century. It’s also this week’s…

Turn On Both Sides of Your Brain With This Private School Corridor Home Listed by Juli Black

By Shelby Skrhak / July 18, 2023 /

Listing agent Juli Black of Allie Beth Allman and Associates can tell you everything about this home at 5330 Meadow Crest Drive in Inwood Road Estates. She has a comprehensive updates list that covers everything literally from floor to ceiling of this down-to-the-studs renovated home. But she’s also thought about this home and what makes…