Pacific Northwest - January 11, 2004
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  NORTHWEST LIVING
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  PREVIOUS ISSUES OF PACIFIC NW
  Book cover Twin Peaks

In opening up, a house embraces two sisters and three generations

By Rebecca Teagarden
  "Oh, it's just perfect," Hazel Greer says of her Gig Harbor home. It should be. It was built just for her. And just for Hazel's twin sister, her daughter, husband and three grown boys.

Just for each of them, and all of them.Hazel's daughter wanted to be closer to the 86-year-old twins, known fondly as the grams. But Paula Leitz, and her husband, Steve, had their own house, and the twins theirs. So they checked with their tax guy, pooled their resources and called Bret Drager of
curved wall in courtyard..
The sweep of the wall connects two separate living suites at the courtyard. Columns help bear the weight of the roof, taking the stress off the wall, so the curve does not have to align with its support.

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