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 Kessler Park Midcentury Is a Lesson in Geometry

By Shelby Skrhak / September 30, 2022 /

This week’s Inwood Home of the Week, sponsored by Inwood National Bank, introduces us to a Kessler Park home that knows her angles. Acute. Obtuse. She knows them all. Located on a perfect block of Knott Place in a hilly Kessler Park neighborhood near Sylvan Ave., this 2,294-square-foot home with three bedrooms and three full…

Yes, This Bishop Arts Bungalow Has It

By Shelby Skrhak / September 28, 2022 /

Merely seven months ago, this week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans was being sold as a teardown. “This property is being sold for lot value,” the Feb. 2022 listing read. With no photos in MLS and listed as a commercially-zoned property, the home sat on the…

7 Things to Buy at H-E-B’s New Frisco Store

By Shelby Skrhak / September 25, 2022 /

When my son was little, we went to visit family in San Antonio. He was feeling a little feverish so I asked my mom if she remembered where the nearest H-E-B store was. “I think on Bandera Road,” she replied, feeling her grandson’s forehead. I grabbed my keys and told John John I’ll be back…

Remodeled Perfection in This Prestonwood Beauty

By Shelby Skrhak / September 21, 2022 /

This week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans, is a 1967-built, completely remodeled beauty near Hillcrest and Belt Line in North Dallas. Nearly every inch of this 2,835-square-foot home, listed by Loren Hall of Compass RE Texas, has been updated to perfection. And I mean perfection with…

This M Streets Cottage Has Soft Sunlit Photos That Make the Interiors Jump Off the Page

By Shelby Skrhak / September 17, 2022 /

Okay, this is how you update (and photograph) a 1940s home. This week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans, is a picture-perfect Austin stone cottage in the M Streets with three bedrooms and 2,455 square feet. Lush landscaping and mature trees greet you as you walk up…