Studio Makeover Complete!

The studio is complete!  All my supplies are back in!  Hooray Hooray! 

Here is the main wall with shelving and drawers.

I have my books and supplies grouped in categories.  Face painting supplies are by the face painting books, wool felting supplies by the felting books, beads by the beading books, etc.

Here is my sewing table.....

I have room for my sewing machine, embellisher & serger, plus my regular sewing threads, machine embroidery threads & serger threads.  And lots of drawers.

Here is my cutting table/work island. I have wide shallow drawers on one end of both sides of the table, front and back. On the other end I have vertical storage space for my ott light, paper cutter, light table and large mats.

This is my media wall with cds and dvds.  I'm old school - still using a cd player. :)

Here is my window wall with shelves for magazines and some of my doll collection, plus drawers for miscellaneous things like charms, stencils, foils and such.

Over the closet doors are some favorite quotes.



Inside the closet are drawers with fabrics and trims.

Yours truly with my Art Doll Quarterly profile article! :)

I LOVE LOVE LOVE my new studio!  I can't wait to get back to work!



Studio Makeover Pt. 4

New furniture at last!  Here is the new Elfa shelving:

New sewing table:

My new cutting table/work island:

And from the back:

Lots of drawers, and verticle storage space for cutting mats, etc.

Here is my retractable extension cord up high near the ceiling.  I got the idea from seeing photos of Caryl Bryer Fallert's quilting studio.  No more cord dragging across my fabric as I iron!

My closets have Elfa carts on casters.  This is where I'm going to store my fabric and I can wheel the carts in and out of the closet as I need them.

Now the organizing begins!

Studio Makeover Pt. 3

The new floors are in!  Here's the new carpet at the entrance going up the stairs:

Here's the studio floor:

I love it!  I think it's going to be soooo much easier to keep it clean, with all the snippets that fall on the floor.  Just a quick going over with the dirt devil!

Tomorrrow comes the new furniture & shelving!

Studio Makeover Pt. 2

The studio now has a fresh coat of paint.

"Extra White" on the walls.

And some green just because I love green & needed some color!

I have new lighting also:  4 fluorescent fixtures which give tons of light.

And while the electrician was putting in the new lights, I got him to add an outlet up high near the ceiling.  I'm going to put in a retractable extension cord up here so I can plug in my iron and wont have it dragging across my fabric as I iron.

New flooring goes in next week!

Studio Makeover

For the last month or so I have been working on a studio makeover!  The hardest thing was packing up all my stuff.  Ugh - that took FOREVER.  I have been wanting a makeover for a long time.  Recently it got to the point that I could not even walk across the floor without stepping over piles and piles of stuff.  My kids were going to nominate me for an episode of "Hoarders"!

Pretty bad, huh?

So now, everything is packed up and in the garage or in the house!

Garage

Living Room

Dining Room

Office

Yesterday the movers came to remove all the hodge podge furniture.

My empty studio

Let the transformation begin!