Highlight Home of the Week Presented by Lisa Peters

Sunlit Atrium, Stone Fireplace, and Shed-Style Roof? You Had Me at Atrium

By Shelby Skrhak / July 26, 2023 /

Once every few months, I ask Lisa Peters, the venerable Dallas mortgage broker at Cardinal Financial, if I can borrow a million dollars. It’s to purchase a new favorite home that she’s sent me as the Highlight Home of the Week she sponsors on CandysDirt.com. Apparently, text messages don’t constitute mortgage applications. However, my loss…

Contemporary Sylvan Ave. Home Stays in Touch With Its Turn-of-the-Century Past

By Shelby Skrhak / July 19, 2023 /

Everyone knows that Oak Cliff has some of the best topography and native landscape in the city, but I found some compelling proof in quite literally, black and white. Yes dear readers, this is another of my historical storytelling rabbit holes into the Dallas Morning News archives from the past century. It’s also this week’s…

Relaxed Luxury Defines This Lakewood Home

By Shelby Skrhak / June 21, 2023 /

If you happen upon the May issue of Australian Vogue Living, you’ll see the work of Dallas interior designer Chad Dorsey. The Dallasite’s work on a Lake Travis home caught the eye of the Aussie publication, and by the looks of his work on this Lakewood home listed by Nora Ling Lane of Allie Beth…

You Can Boat to the Magnolia Silos From This Waterfront Home in Waco

By Shelby Skrhak / June 14, 2023 /

Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate agent Laura Wiswall remembers when Waco was, well, just Waco — her hometown. Home of the Baylor Bears, the Dr Pepper Museum, and the cheekily-named burger joint named Health Camp. This week’s Highlight Home of the Week, sponsored by Dallas mortgage expert Lisa Peters of Cardinal Financial introduces us to a…

A Look at This Highland Park Home Through Its Archive-Documented Yet Anecdotal History

By Shelby Skrhak / June 7, 2023 /

You might take it for granted, but old homes live just like the people who own them do — through good times and bad. A hundred-year-old home may be the meaningful setting of a bridal shower or a funeral reception, someone’s first breath or their last, a gleeful war homecoming or a dreaded knock at…