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.

This Architecturally Significant Oglesby Modernist Has Undergone a Stunning Renovation

By Shelby Skrhak / February 5, 2023 /

Don’t let this gorgeous home’s build date fool you. While it was smartly and dramatically renovated in 2022, this magnificent Inwood Road estate is an iconic architecturally significant home from 1985, a modernist masterpiece designed by one of Dallas’s most prolific and award-winning architects. The late Bud Oglesby was known for designing modernist dwellings throughout…

Enjoy Palm Springs Vibes in This Forest Hills Midcentury Modern

By Shelby Skrhak / February 3, 2023 /

You had me at breeze blocks. A lattice of white brick that lends design and mystique to a Midcentury Modern home. This week’s Inwood Home of the Week sponsored by Inwood National Bank is a 1964 beauty, listed by Clifton Kessler of Allie Beth Allman and Associates, that shows off some glorious breeze blocks. That’s…

The Best Weather-Related Tweets We’ve Seen, The Thundersleet Edition

By Shelby Skrhak / January 30, 2023 /

As a blanket of [… checks my notes …] thundersleet coated the roads Monday afternoon, North Texans are managing to keep their sense of humor as they hunker down while conditions are deteriorating across Dallas-Fort Worth. (And if you have hunker down or deteriorating on your #DFWWX drinking bingo card, we’re sorry. If you have…

What’s Developing: Ascent at Mountain Creek Is Part of Southwest Dallas Resurgence

By Shelby Skrhak / January 29, 2023 /

Developers are taking note of the abundant and scenic land in Southwest Dallas, and snapping up acreages by the hundreds in largely undeveloped Mountain Creek. Longtime Mountain Creek landowner Courtland Group recently sold 430 acres to Village West Dallas Development LLC, the Dallas Morning News reported. And NRP Group, one of the country’s top apartment…

First Look: Peek Inside High Hill Development’s Stunning New Home This Week

By Shelby Skrhak / January 22, 2023 /

Things are heating up at High Hill Development in East Texas as the Danuser Rado Group readies for two exclusive on-site events this week — a broker and agent tour on Wednesday and a public open house on Saturday. The public is invited to see High Hill’s new showcase, 23782 Lex Lane in Arp —…