KIRKLAND—The Building Industry Association of Washington (BIAW) and 2007 President Daimon Doyle have joined forces to take on one of the most challenging endeavors either has ever faced—building a home in one week. ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition called on BIAW for help when the show picked a family in Kirkland to surprise with a new home.
Today, with cameras rolling and dozens of strangers in the front yard, Connie Chapin and her four children learned their dangerously dilapidated, structurally unsound home would be torn down and replaced with a green-built dream home. BIAW members from around the state answered the call to action and have donated ‘round the clock labor and materials to help BIAW and Doyle Custom Homes, Inc. build the Chapin’s new green home from the ground up—completely free of charge.
“Building this home for the Chapin family will be one of the most difficult challenges of my career,” said Doyle. “But it has already been one of the most rewarding, proving to me once again that homebuilders can be counted on to step up to the plate when it comes to helping someone in need,” said Doyle. “And what has made this spirit of giving even more remarkable is that for many contributors, the Chapin family is far beyond what they would consider their community—some traveled literally across the state to help make this dream home a reality.”
The extreme-dream home will enable Connie Chapin to continue operating her home-based business, teaching swimming lessons to children suffering various disabilities, such as autism and cerebral palsy.
Chapin had been informed by the City of Kirkland that because the nearly 100 year old home she inherited was so unsafe and out of compliance with current building codes she was in danger of losing her home based business-the small business
Connie started while feeding her children from a food bank, and eventually built into a successful venture with the help of her four young children, was going to close down.
Chapin struggled, with the help of volunteers from around the Kirkland community, for two years to make the repairs mandated by the city, but her home was in such disrepair it was deemed unsalvageable. Community members rallied to Chapin’s cause and petitioned Extreme Makeover: Home Edition for help. After choosing Chapin from the 15,000 applications the show receives every week, Extreme producers contacted BIAW. President Doyle committed the services of his company to help BIAW build not just a new house, but an environmentally friendly, green-built dream house.
Stay tuned for daily in-depth details of what it takes to build a home in one week and a photo gallery of the Extreme Dream Green home. Visit www.greenextremehomemakeover.com for more information about the project.
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