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.
Long Cove, the 1,200-acre luxury lake community at Cedar Creek Lake, is right where you want to be.
Driving down Granada Avenue in University Park, you can’t help but notice the cornucopia of types and styles of homes. There are single-family one-stories from the ’50s, townhomes, duplexes, and quadplexes from the ’70s and ’80s, some Mansard styles, ’00s transitionals, and ultra-modern homes built in recent years — all within two noncongruous blocks that…
This Earth Day, try thinking outside the cardboard box for moving supplies. That’s what John and Mollie Hancock, a former middle school teacher and Ebby Halliday real estate agent respectively, did when they founded Elephant Trunk Moving Supplies in 2015 from their Plano home. Together with their daughter Chloe Hancock, who is also an agent…
In a neighborhood full of tear-downs and beautifully built-up moderns, this 1950-built home in Bluffview Estates fits in perfectly. An old brick carport has been converted to a full-fledged garage with an aluminum frosted glass garage door and the look is positively modern. For this clever conversion and many other reasons, this lovely home is…
The master-planned community of Trinity Falls in McKinney could be the perfect, modern interpretation of multigenerational living. Of course, the 2,000-acre development is more than a multigenerational solution. It’s a vibrant neighborhood of single-family homes, where nature and common outdoor spaces are abundant. There are different homes for different stages in life. There are single-family…
