Fooling around with the studio, again…

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Our studio is an area in flux.   We can’t quite seem to get it to a right, comfortable way.  It’s getting closer, but still, not quite what we want it to be.  Problem is, we’re not totally sure what we want it to be!  Haha…  silly women.

It’s the first room that most folks enter from the street.  It has this little entry vestibule, which is equally unused properly.  It does serve as a great dog-lock… like an air lock.  One door shuts before the other door opens, that keeps our hounds from rushing out front to the busy road.

Still…  what to actually do with the place.

Well, we found that nice tall pub table and a pair of high chairs on the side of the road.  Some folks were moving out and apparently it didn’t suit their new needs.  So we gladly took it home.  We had this sort of fake table that we had made on the top of a couple file cabinets, but to be honest it was too low and kind of akward.  So that’s gone.

Maggie painted all the file cabinets white for me.  I like that.   They were all miss matched so I like them being a little more connected, the same.   Jessy and I stacked a couple in the back nook with the loom and all.  I liked that.  Cleaner looking.  I hope to put some fun lettering on the cabinets next… detailing what is in each drawer.  Still paring down and getting the collection of crafts and arts down to a much more comfortable level.

I stole this little white cabinet from the kitchen, where it really didn’t fit in well, and put it in the nook to hold fabrics.   Love that now.  Perfect.   It holds some of my extra fabrics for making rugs with.  It will keep them much cleaner and also I just love the look of the colors coming through the little glass doors.  Perfect.  DSC_0136

We pulled up the old rug in there, it was just so worn and nasty.  Not really helping anything.  Our plan is to paint the old floor in there.   Would love to try and sand it and refinish it all, but that is just not in the cards right now.  It’s in pretty bad shape so I’m not sure that it would help too much.   Remember, our old home was built in 1907 or 1908…   it’s not brand new at all!

The white or light tan floor would really lighten up the area.   We’ll probably try and do that soon, in a few weeks or so.  In the meanwhile, I am working on getting my little shelf area next to the loom cleared off and a lot less cluttered.   The picture below is after a few hours work.  (haha….  still cluttered!)  My goal is to have everything with a real home.  Getting there.  I’m learning that we seem to work better in a clean and simple space, rather than one overly cluttered and messy.   Some artsy folk like to be surrounded in an environment with lots of input and stimulation.  But I find that it’s too distracting sometimes.   I guess we like for things to be in the middle…  not sterile, yet, not overly cluttered.  It’s a goal we’re shooting for.

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We’re also hoping to use the area for Maggie’s sign business, a sort of workshop and meeting area for clients to come and pick up signs and such.  So the space needs to be tidy and professional.   If you could see how this area is, picture a large open area that is 14 x 14 in size.   And there are two nooks/wings off this square, that are about 12 foot by 8 foot or so.  The idea is for me to have a nook area and Maggie to have a nook for her wood working/sign creation area.   And then the 14 x 14 square area would have the more professional area, with the tall pub table, and a few cabinets of supplies, with two big bulletin area that we can use to show off samples of colors and materials as well as examples of work, etc.

Still not quite there, but we do sort of have a master plan.   We’ll keep working on it.  More reports as it gets a little closer and closer to our final vision…

Any suggestions as to what might work???

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the banjo player for Deepwater Bluegrass, and the editor of BuckeyeBluegrass.com as well as the main graphic designer of the Westvon Publishing empire. She is a renaissance woman of many talents and has two lovely daughters and a rehab mobile home homestead to raise.

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Fooling around with the studio, again… — 2 Comments

  1. Have you seen paper bag floors? put it in the search bar…they are cool and you could whitewash them before you polyurethaned them!

    • I have! But always using them as brown and all. I’m gonna keep that in mind. If painting doesn’t quite do it for us, I might try that, it would probably fill in the gouges and cracks and such a bit, make it a nicer floor! Neat idea…