The Detroit News - June 2021
06-24-2021![](http://fleurdetroit.com/cdn/shop/articles/3cb21609-b18c-4942-ab19-c57fab7f6a23-LC0A0923_{width}x.jpg?v=1656630571)
Christian Doble and Alicia Gbur had been looking for a fixer upper in Pleasant Ridge when they came across the distinctive 1921 cottage they now call home. “We wanted a good project and had been dreaming of this community,” Doble explains of their 2014 discovery. There was only one problem: The house wasn’t for sale.