Shelby Skrhak

Shelby is Associate Editor of CandysDirt.com, where she writes and produces 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.

The Architect Index: Dallas Homes Designed by O’Neil Ford

By Shelby Skrhak / July 7, 2021 /

The creation of Texas Modern style is credited to legendary architect O’Neil Ford and his mentor David Williams, and draws inspiration from none other than Frank Lloyd Wright. “O’Neil Ford helped launch Texas architecture on a new path by showing that its roots were deep and often beautiful,” Dallas Morning News architecture critic David Dillon…

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You Decide: a Farmhouse Splurge or MCM Steal in Walnut Hills

By Shelby Skrhak / July 4, 2021 /

This week’s Splurge vs. Steal takes us to Walnut Hills in Northwest Dallas where a difficult decision awaits you: a darling updated farmhouse splurge with a rare 5 bedrooms or an original midcentury modern that could benefit from some light, bright photos and staging. Which do you prefer? Tell us in the comments. The Splurge…

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Innovative Ways to Promote an Open House

By Shelby Skrhak / July 1, 2021 /

Open houses have never been so lucrative. In this hot housing market with low inventory, an open house is no longer about getting an offer on a house. It’s how you get many, many offers on your listing. We’d like to offer a few pieces of expert advice for our real estate professionals out there.…

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No Expense Spared in This Waterfront at Forest Home

By Shelby Skrhak / June 30, 2021 /

This week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans, is a breathtaker – the noun form of breathtaking. Now, I’m not confident on the validity of that word but if there was ever a home that needed a noun created for it, it’s this one. This North Dallas…

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Affordable Homes in DFW? We Found a Few Darling Neighborhoods in Anna

By Shelby Skrhak / June 29, 2021 /

This week’s Inwood Home of the Week, sponsored by Inwood National Bank, takes us to the northern Collin County city of Anna, where you’ll find this 1,541-square-foot home listed by Shelbie McKenzie of Coldwell Banker Realty. Now, homes at this price point are hotter than hot so we couldn’t get it published before it went…

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