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 week’s High Caliber Home, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans, takes us to an amazing pocket of Midcentury Modern homes in Lake Highlands. Located near Northwest Highway and Plano Road, this Lakeland Hills subdivision of Midcentury Modern homes was a showcase of custom contemporary design in Dallas in the 1950s. “Homes for…
Diane Cheatham will admit her new modern Urban Commons community in Lake Highlands isn’t for everyone. The developer responsible for the award-winning Urban Reserve has designs on a new section of Northeast Dallas at LBJ and Abrams Road — a low-impact sustainable community with high design. She assembled an impressive lineup of architects and master…
You might say Lauri Ann Hanson and Aimee Ives of Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate are geeking out about this darling home at 608 Bondstone Drive, located in the prestigious Lake Highlands Estates of Old Lake Highlands. “We are big fan girls of Old Lake Highlands for so many reasons,” Hanson says. ”The pocket could not…
This week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans, takes us to the neighborhood of Prestonville at Hillcrest and Northwest Highway. It’s a beautiful little pocket of single family attached and duplex homes in Preston Hollow, where back in the ’40s homebuilders built well-appointed rental homes and apartments…
Can you tell where this home is located? By the modern architecture, you’d probably say somewhere in Midway Hollow, Kessler Woods, or Bluffview. After all, the sharp lines of contrasting mixed media, that blend of wood, stucco, and masonry that exudes simplicity and luxury — those are the modern custom homes you see going up…