Brittany
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n o s p e J n o s t a W y n Britta One house, many ideas: A portrait of the creative DIY blogger Brittany
Brittany didn’t aspire to become a blogger. The term didn’t exist when she was deciding on a career path. And once they did, they were mommy bloggers writing personal essays about ordinary things and she wasn’t interested in living such a public life. Sharing her creative work didn’t occur to her until she was put into a situation where she had limited work options. Brittany started blogging while she studied interior design in graduate school. For a residential design class project, she invented a fictional family based on her real life father, SISTER-MAG.COM
whose alias growing up was Lars. She created a blog for the family so they could track the progress of their house and called it www.thehousethat larsbuilt.com . Although she only had 100 readers at the time, she created new articles every day after the project was finished. Ultimately, her collected DIY ideas found a place and her creativity found an outlet. 148
