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.

Each week, The 49th Estate takes a look inside a different Alaska home. Alaska Dispatch does not endorse the views or opinions expressed by the subjects of these videos. If you have an interesting Alaska home you think we’d like to see, e-mail jsaul(at)alaskadispatch.com.