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.

Bella Custom Homes Offers Build to Suit Perfection in Castle Hills

By Shelby Skrhak / March 30, 2022 /

For nearly three decades, Bella Custom Homes has been crafting beautifully-appointed homes with stunning architecture in Dallas’s most prominent neighborhoods. Awe-worthy arches, majestic great rooms, and stunning spa baths with impressive, European-imported materials are all characteristic of a Bella Custom Home. With that level of opulence, you might expect the cost to become astronomical, but…

Architecturally Significant: Perry Heights Home of Arch Swank For Sale

By Shelby Skrhak / March 26, 2022 /

When Dave Perry-Miller agent Meg Read told me her listing near Oak Lawn was once owned by the renowned architect Arch Swank, I let out an audible ”Wow!” And then I immediately had questions. Like, Why wouldn’t you put that in a giant all-caps headline in the listing? ARCH SWANK OWNED THIS HOME AND NOW…

Some Hidden Wallpaper Brings Joy and Inspiration for This Perry Heights Tudor

By Shelby Skrhak / March 25, 2022 /

When designer and renovator Melinda Pope came across this 1925 Tudor in Perry Heights, she fell in love. This beauty at 4412 N. Hall Street, listed by Mohammed Jaber of Compass RE Texas, is featured as this week’s Inwood Home of the Week, sponsored by Inwood National Bank. The swift lines that contrast its stalwart…

Paragon’s Elliot Collins: ‘Homeownership Is One of The Great Equalizers.”

By Shelby Skrhak / March 24, 2022 /

Elliot Collins is one of those people that wouldn’t mind house hunting every day for the rest of his life. For the better part of a year, he and his partner spent every night and weekend scouring Zillow and touring homes throughout Dallas with their realtor. He enjoyed the process so much, that he became…

Klaudia Giardina Makes the Move to Rogers Healy and Associates Real Estate

By Shelby Skrhak / March 20, 2022 /

They say nobody achieves anything alone. And while real estate is a business that relies on your own entrepreneurial spirit and work ethic to succeed, it’s not without an “It takes a village” mentality to make good real estate agents great. That’s because mentors — whether they’re actually called that or they are simply colleagues…