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.

Discover This Perfect Midcentury Modern Pocket of Homes in Lake Highlands

By Shelby Skrhak / May 25, 2022 /

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…

Urban Commons Community in Lake Highlands Is a Sophisticated Taste in Modern

By Shelby Skrhak / May 22, 2022 /

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…

Old Lake Highlands Charmer Has the Neighborhood You Always Wanted

By Shelby Skrhak / May 21, 2022 /

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…

Soak in All of Preston Hollow in This Modern Farmhouse in Prestonville

By Shelby Skrhak / May 18, 2022 /

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…

If You Could Take Your Perfect Modern Home on Permanent Vacation, This Would Be It

By Shelby Skrhak / May 15, 2022 /

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…