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Budget Breakdown: A Designer Embraces the Hippie Vibes in Her Portland Kitchen for $45K
Stephanie Dyer and her husband, Samuel, celebrate the quirks, handicraft, and patchwork of wood in their 1898 home.
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Stephanie and Samuel Dyer are no strangers to a fixer-upper. They bought their first home in Portland, Oregon, just before getting married 20 years ago—and Stephanie says "we ended up having to remodel the entire thing." In the years since, she finished interior design school and opened her own firm, Dyer Studio, while Sam taught himself carpentry and met his future employer, Harding Construction, while building out their backyard ADU.
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Melissa Dalton
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Melissa Dalton is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon, who has been writing for Dwell since 2017. Read more of her work about design and architecture at melissadalton.net.
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