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.
I feel like if George W. and Laura Bush ever decided to have an estate sale, it would look like this one. Without all the nudes The estate sale of Dallas philanthropist and oil tycoon Cary Maguire kicked off Thursday at the late businessman’s home at 4606 Park Lane. Maguire was chairman and president emeritus…
When it comes to writing about past-decade homes, I can’t resist looking them up in the old Dallas Morning News archives. Sometimes I find builder advertisements for the home or its new subdivision. Other times, I find someone notable once lived there. But my favorite finds are the ones that just add a little whimsy…
This week’s Inwood Home of the Week, sponsored by Inwood National Bank, is a “look but don’t touch” scenario — kind of. The gorgeous new custom at 6954 Coronado Ave., listed by Compass RE Texas‘s Michelle Hopson, is already pending contract. Hopson, whom I swear has sold half the homes in the C Streets, says…
You know what’s great about 1970s and ’80s soft contemporary homes? They have texture. Personality that can’t be painted away. Character that makes them unique. You’ll find a great example of this in this Lakewood home listed by Kevin Sayre of Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International. This stunning, move-in-ready soft contemporary is situated in one of…
We as real estate writers often speak in hyperbole. We might call a home a gingerbread house — and though technically this would mean a saccharine or overly-elaborate facade, we mean it more as a sweet, compact home full of quaint detail. Think of Lower Greenville’s homes. Or take the term storybook home. Storybook is…
