Highlight Home of the Week – Sponsored by Lisa Peters

Unveiling the Mystery and Legends of This Stevens Park Estates Home

By Shelby Skrhak / August 13, 2023 /

This is the mysterious Plymouth Road home that Oak Cliff neighbors wondered about. Every neighborhood has one. A home that’s so shrouded in mystery — and overgrown foliage — that when those leafy limbs are pulled away, it’s like unveiling a swan behind an ugly duckling facade. “Well, she’s not quite a swan yet but…

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Pardon the Rhyme, But This Maple Heights Place is Your New Contemporary Space

By Shelby Skrhak / August 9, 2023 /

This week’s Highlight Home of the Week, sponsored by Dallas mortgage broker Lisa Peters of Cardinal Financial, takes us to the up-and-coming neighborhood of Maple Heights, where there is close-by everywhere and this is your comfort place, even if you technically share a wall in the same place. I’m swear I’m not Dr. Seuss. Just…

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Simple Updates Turn a West Plano Traditional Home Into a Timeless Transitional

By Shelby Skrhak / August 2, 2023 /

This week’s Highlight Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Cardinal Financial takes us to West Plano where Michael Bepko of Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate has this beautifully-updated listing that has the #homeinspo part of my brain spinning. The home at 5905 Fossil Ridge garnered multiple offers in its five days on the…

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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…

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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…

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