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Home Again Gina Freuen converted her studio into a live-work space STORY AND PHOTOS BY CARRIE SCOZZARO
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any artists find themselves turning a portion of their homes into studios; Gina Freuen did the reverse. After her husband passed away unexpectedly in 2014, Freuen found herself contemplating her life’s trajectory. She decided to move out of her Little Spokane River area home — her son and his family live there now — and convert the adjacent building that formerly held her ceramic studio into her living quarters. “I have a different perspective from this side of the house,” Freuen says. Instead of seeing the massive garden where she spends much of her time in warmer months when not in the studio, she now sees the neighbor’s horses and a verdant swath of land alongside the gurgling river-fed creek.