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DO HOMEWORK TO DO IT YOURSELF Work on older houses takes extra know-how, flexibility MELISSA KOSSLER DUTTON ASSOCIATED PRESS

Dwain Livengood can save money on his home renovation project by doing the work himself. But he also knows that do-it-yourself projects in historic homes like his 100-year-old farmhouse require extra planning and research, and that mistakes can be costly. h “Selfawareness is pretty huge,” says Livengood, who grew up in the house in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and is the third generation of his family to own it. “Saving money isn’t worth it if in the end it looks like an amateur did it.” h He is planning the first major renovations to the property, including a new kitchen, hardwood floor restorations and window repair. See DIY, Page 3R

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Homes inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright go up in Cave Creek Frank Lloyd Wright’s impact on Arizona architecture goes on. A community going up on one of the last big developable parcels of land in Cave Creek has his influence all over it. The 1,000-acre Cahava Springs will have 230 homes on its rolling desert hills topped with saguaros, so almost 80 percent of the community will be preserved open space.

The homes in Cahava Springs are designed by Scottsdale's Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Taliesin School of Architecture. Renderings show the houses with straight lines and flat roofs designed to be part of the desert instead of placed on top of it, a classic Wright mantra. Many natural materials are being used to build the homes, another one of the architect’s design necessities. And one of Cahava Spring’s develop-

ers, Mark Stapp, has deep ties to Taliesin and Wright. The Arizona growth and development expert served as chairman of the board of Taliesin Architects for 10 years. “Cahava Springs is designed to preserve a substantial amount of the environmentally-sensitive property,” the director of the Master of Real Estate Development program at Arizona State University told me. “The homes use the principles of organic architecture to

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take advantage of the natural setting of the desert.” Stapp and his partner in Cahava Springs Dennis Mathisen started to develop the community at the end of the boom in 2007, but like all Valley growth then, it stalled with the recession and real-estate crash. Back in the late 1920s, Wright’s first big Arizona project was to be a BiltmoreSee REAGOR, Page 3R

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