dAHLIA House

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Born: 1912

Healed: 2002, 2005, 2017

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Presenting Complaints: 

leaking roof, cracked plaster walls, Original knob and tube wiring, light fixtures missing, lead pipes, original windows painted shut & Cracked, front porch sagging with astroturf deck and missing balustrade, OUTDATED BATHs & KITCHEN, flooding basement, collasped barns and outbuildings filled with generations of no longer necessary equipment and tools.   

Diagnosis:

the doubting call the "last original farmhouse" in kirkland a teardown. the believers sEE the potential. 

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Prognosis: 

with a new roof to keep the rain outside where it belongs, front porch restored to its 1912 charm, a reinforced foundation with level floors, restored and new windows that open and glide, sanded & Polished floors, old wallpaper stripped & Plaster repaired, plumbing updated & bathrooms and kitchen reimagined as good as old, collapsing barn torn down, exterior siding replaced and sealed in vibrant color as backdrop to the lively english gardens with a swimming pond as the crown jewel, this former Dahlia farm, this piece of kirkland history will once again be a place of riotous joy.