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.
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…
When we got a media advisory from ERCOT on Friday afternoon asking Texans to conserve energy during this first nearly 100-degree weekend, our first thought was, “Ughh, not again.” But with a little focused daydreaming and some positive thinking, our second thought was, “Ahhh.” Hot temps mean cool plunges into a sparkling swimming pool. Luckily,…
If you’re new to the Metroplex, let me introduce you to Southlake. It’s a wealthy, one high school-town that has a vibrant, upscale Town Square and all the conveniences of major highways and DFW Airport just 10 minutes away, but manages to keep its sophisticated yet small town feel. Residences here are practically the definition…