ASPIRE DESIGN AND HOME

California Dreaming

The first thing you should know about designer and trained architect Chad Dorsey’s east Dallas “surf shack,” which he shares with his husband Kurt Bielawski, is that there’s no water in sight. He couldn’t even catch a wave kicked up by the wake of a speeding motorboat at White Rock Lake nearby because they were banned in 1952.

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