If only these walls could talk.

 

A 1971 waterfront home on Dyes Inlet — designed by an architect who spent 15 years alongside Frank Lloyd Wright, written about in the Bremerton Sun as "a unique waterfront home that invites the outside inside." Stone fireplace built from Columbia River basalt. Driftwood gathered on boat trips to Blake Island pressed into the mantle. A catwalk that bridges the levels like something out of a dream.

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The walls have stories. I'm still learning them.

I found this place nearly a decade ago. Run-down. Overlooked. My mom said it was too much work. My dad — an artist — saw what I saw. I bought it anyway. Spent the next several years restoring it room by room while raising my kids inside it, hanging my dad's original paintings on every wall, and trying every day to honor the intention that went into this house.

 

When my kids grew up and left, I didn't sell it. I opened the door.

The neighbor who welcomed me when I first moved in was a man named Frank. He'd tell me grand stories about the property — who built it, what it meant, what this stretch of Dyes Inlet used to be. My kids used to jump off Frank and Beverly's dock next door. Frank's cottage is now mine too.​

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