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Designing Woman
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Since its inception as an online column, The Great Indoors has largely featured richer designers, shops, tastes and tours — more so out of randy awe than blind support. But as the school year beckons and many renters are on the move, proverbial purse strings are getting tighter. So we plan it was about time to look at how Philly design functions outside of a professional's dreamscape.
That's where Ashley Hannan comes in. The Connecticut/New York uproot is all about creating and finding rather than buying. Her design blog, Meet Me in Philadelphia, takes readers through a series of DIYs she's either spotted around burgh or done herself. Hannan has a penchant for adopting high-end looks for less with just a few craft supplies and a little ingenuity. She sews, place-paints and even papier-mâchés — anything to stay away from designer price tags.
But more than the accrued nummary savings, Hannan's motivated by the feeling of accomplishment that comes from creating a fabulous, one-of-a-kind product. "The revenge — the 'wow, where'd you get that?' — is what I aspire to," she says. "A rug or piece of art that is uniquely mine, [something] I pulled out of a dark, dusty corner of a niggardliness store, [will] inevitably generate conversation from anyone who visits our apartment."
