Estate Sales

CandysDirt.com covers Dallas area estate sales and fascinating stories behind them.

Piecing Together This North Preston Hollow Estate Sale, a Reporter’s Notebook

By Shelby Skrhak / December 13, 2019 /

In this CandysDirt.com Reporter’s Notebook feature, Associate Editor Shelby Skrhak explains the writing and research process she clearly loves for estate sales and a fabulous one this weekend.  Estate sales are like an archeological dig into somebody’s life story from the objects they or their loved ones leave behind. For CandysDirt.com, I’ve started covering Dallas’…

Shop the Estate Sale Inside This Brand New Modern Farmhouse

By Shelby Skrhak / December 12, 2019 /

Instead of an old estate home, try estate sale shopping in a brand new modern farmhouse this weekend at ELS Estate Sales’ event at 4178 Beaver Brook near Midway Road and Royal Lane. The new construction by Davis Signature Homes, listed for $1.2499 million by Mykal Ippolito of Texas Urban Living, is a top-of-the-line green home.  It’s registered…

This Bluffview House Is Pending Contract and Now Everything Inside Is For Sale

By Shelby Skrhak / November 24, 2019 /

The founder and owner of Dallas-based St. Bernard Sports is downsizing from his gorgeous Wilson Fuqua-designed home in Bluffview and Highland Park Market Estate Sales is helping sell the family’s beautiful collection of home furniture and decor they describe as “nothing short of WOW!” The home at 4704 Wildwood, listed for $3.095 million by LeeLee Gioia…

The Fabulous Estate of Derrill Osborn Is Mysterious Like the Fashion Icon

By Shelby Skrhak / November 23, 2019 /

This is an estate sale as intriguing as the man himself. From the moment I read this controversial full-page, full-color obituary in the Dallas Morning News, which was written and hand-delivered to the newspaper downtown earlier by the deceased himself, I knew the estate sale of Mr. Derrill Osborn would be epic.  The venerable icon of international…

Purchase Lee Trevino’s Lusterweibchen Chandelier and More From Home Before Its Bulldozed

By Shelby Skrhak / November 9, 2019 /

The Lee Trevino estate that we’ve written so much about in the past will soon be history, as the new owners are bulldozing it to start anew and have brought in Highland Park Market Fine Estate Sales and Pre-Demolition Sales for a series of pre-demo sales. The first pre-demo sale took place a few weeks…