Alaska Dispatch

Zak Tilbury's remote cabin near the Deshka River is a staging ground for the larger log cabin he plans to build in the coming years.

Sherry Comer is a local musician and student. Her South Anchorage home is full of thrift store treasures and family memories.

Michelle Mitton writes Scribbit, her award-winning blog, from the South Anchorage home she shares with her husband and their four children.

Mead Treadwell's downtown Anchorage home is full of art that evokes and expresses his career, interests, and family.

Professor Ellen Cole has lived in the president's home on the campus of Alaska Pacific University for 15 years.

Co-pastors Tim and Leisa Carrick live in the United Protestant Church of Palmer's Colony-era manse.

Dorene Lorenz lives in South Anchorage in a house that shows off her own art and interior design alongside heirlooms from her great-grandparents, who moved to Seward in the 1940s.

Dave Harbour runs his popular natural gas pipeline Web site from his East Anchorage home. 

Brenda Lowber's Midtown Anchorage apartment serves as her home, office and art gallery.

Rep. Les Gara lives in downtown Anchorage in a home built by cultural pioneer Lorene Harrison.