A Studio of One’s Own!

What to do with a long narrow space in our house not wide enough for a bed?  A studio!!!

Finally, a place to store and organize everything neatly.  No more sawing at the kitchen table or cutting patterns on the floor in the living room.   My mom has a sewing room and I guess I always wanted one too.  A validation of my craft.

This tiny room needed a lot of love.  We had to rip up the carpet – dirty old navy elementary classroom style carpet.  Not knowing what was underneath or if it’d be salvageable, we were pleased to find a beautiful old painted hardwood floor.  After a day of removing carpeting staples, tacks and old rusty nails, we slathered 5 layers of paint on the old boards.  I’m so glad we were able to salvage the old flooring!

We painted the walls… and the floor again and the floor again and again…

I painted long shelving boards up the same color as the wall and then polyurethaned them.  My dad helped me put up the brackets.  Read, we had to drill 76  2 1/2″ screws into a brick wall.  It took a whole weekend.

I made curtains, put up two thick wood counter tops meant for a kitchen and moved in!  Voilà!

Well, almost done.  Still need to do something about that crooked old paper shade hanging from the ceiling.  Any suggestions?  Please!!!

Ahhh, I love it!!!

Update!  Stephanie of Metalicious wrote a post on my studio renovation as part of her series on NY Workspaces!  Check it out here on the {NewNew} Blog.  Thank you Stephanie!