I’m Frances. I’m twenty-eight and female and I recently moved from New York City, which I lived in or around for my whole life, to Cottonwood, Arizona, which, in comparison, is essentially the middle of nowhere. Out here, people drive pick up trucks and refrigerators are the size of small houses. In about a year, I plan to head to the Northwest to settle down, but in the meantime, I have a house to renovate. I live with my fiance, Dan, a tortoiseshell cat named Kovick, and a yellow Labrador puppy named Bix. I work as a freelance consultant in web strategy and design.
Current obsessions: crochet, vintage scarves, bubble gum, dog-eared paperbacks, mix discs, packages in the mail, yoga, things that are colored mint green, red, and teal, handbags, collage, polka dots, fresh herbs, cheese, ice cream, hiking.
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Before & After
By frangritAt long last, our living room is very nearly done. Below, what the room looked like when we moved in in August 2006, and what it looks like now. Along with my fiance's parents, we did all the renovations ourselves.
Click for a larger image at Flickr.
Worst Nightmare Territory
By frangritNot really a question, more like a shocked discovery along with helpless jaw-dropping.
As some of you may know, I'm in the midst of helping out on a renovation of a total crapshoot of a house, a circa-1920s oddity that may have been literally rolled down a mountain from an old mining town. The place is filled with weird doors and crazy floorboards -- rooms seem to have been added willy-nilly over the years; bizarre crayon drawings line the insid » READ MORE
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