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Articles by Nancy Ranchel :
- A good light is hard to find
- Alterna-girl shopping guide to Lincoln City
- Alterna-girl shopping in Portland
- An ode to white
- Couch bound
- Do you really want to paint that room?
- Dreaming of a DIY deck
- Give a stump a good home
- Halfway through on the new deck
- How to love your contractor
- Is this room fake?
- Katrina cottages
- Living and loving small
- Mom and the ocotillo
- Mosaics add flair, personality to your space
- Mud men and their tarps
- Not just a doorknob
- Pipe dreams
- Repair cafe
- Rubber soul
- Scrap fabric, pillows and summer
- Start kidding around about art
- Stop thinking and start salvaging
- Tantalizing tips for TP
- The allure of leather
- The deck demo begins
- The versatility of barn door sliders
- What is salvage?



Portlander Nancy Ranchel is an accountant who offsets the practicality of her day job with extravagant and outrageous remodeling projects, often involving massive amounts of scrap metal. In her free time she can be found dreaming up new ways to turn her house into an art installation, digging through scrap heaps, and contemplating a world without plastic. Read about it on her 