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.

A Lakewood Spec Home Done Right

By Shelby Skrhak / July 29, 2022 /

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…

Groove on This 1970s Soft Contemporary With Sparkling Pool in the Heart of Lakewood

By Shelby Skrhak / July 28, 2022 /

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…

This One’s a Fairy Tale Home in Flower Mound

By Shelby Skrhak / July 27, 2022 /

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…

The Lakewood Lovely With a Curious Street Name

By Shelby Skrhak / July 23, 2022 /

There’s no more memorable street name in Lakewood than Bob O’ Link Drive. This Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate listing by Susan Nelson Wheeler and Rhoni Golden sits majestically on this coveted residential street near Abrams and Mockingbird. But who is Bob O’ Link in Dallas? A Dallas luminary, maybe an entertaining older gentleman named Robert…

Don’t Blink! This Elevated and Sophisticated Park Cities Home Awaits

By Shelby Skrhak / July 22, 2022 /

This week’s Inwood Home of the Week, sponsored by Inwood National Bank, is located in the heart of University Park and conveniently placed near all the upscale convenience the Park Cities have to offer. The spacious and contemporary single-family attached home is situated on a wide residential street with great walkability to the shops and…