Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood is home to two, interconnected non-profit organizations that every do-it-yourselfer should know about: The Boston Building Materials Co-op (sells new household building supplies) and the Building Materials Resource Center (sells secondhand, salvaged building supplies)...
Tomorrow night (Tuesday June 3) the BBMC is offering a reduced-testosterone evening of women tradespeople sharing info with women do-it-yourselfers. The event will provide information about home improvements, financing home projects and legal issues related to homeownership. You'll have a chance to talk with a general contractor; landscaper; kitchen, window, and door specialist; attorney; carpenter; electrician; architect; plumber; pest management specialist; holistic design and space planner; home safety specialist; and a HomeWorks financing coordinator.
What better way to meet some women contractors to add to your address book for the next time your do-it-yourself project morphs into a call-someone-else-to-do-it project! This is a free event from 5:30 to 7:00 with free childcare!
100 Terrace Street, Boston MA 02120 617.442.8917
(We know, we know…we’re gender stereotyping with the picture of the pink women’s toolbelt we snagged from girlylock.com, but you get the idea.)
Kyle Freeman for AT Boston
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This is excellent. I wish they had such events here in Rockland County (NY)! Or, I wish I would find them if they do.
Your disclaimer has really spared you from gender-issue attacks-----
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Just moved to JP and dropped $400 on a locksmith. A few hours later went to the hardware store and saw the same locks he charged $150 for, for $20. If there's anyone who needs this kind of training it's me...of course I cant' make it. Do they do this often?
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