Mar 07 2010
Creative Space Redo part 2
You are probably thinking that I’ve gotten lost in my newly arranged creative space and that’s why I haven’t posted. Well, I do have my space rearranged and I LOVE IT, but I’m doing some temp work with the 2010 Census so I haven’t had time to enjoy my new space. A drawback? Not really. It does mean some extra money that I can use for shelving and storage and perhaps even a little extra for FABRIC. So all in all, I’m okay with it.
Phase One of the redo of my creative space involves rearranging the existing furniture. I removed a lot of the little items that were cluttering up the space to another room for now. As I find a new home for them, I’ll move them back in. In Creating Your Perfect Quilting Space
The overhead lighting is a ceiling fan in the center of the room. I have already replaced the bulbs with daylight spectrum bulbs. I wanted my work areas centered under this overhead lighting a much as possible.
Start of the rearranging… I emptied the corner near the closet by moving the corner cabinet to [basically] unusable space at the entrance to the room. The upper cabinet shelves will hold decorative items and antique sewing notions. There is some storage at the bottom of the cabinet on two shelves but they don’t hold much because of the “V” shape of the cabinet.
Ludo decided the now empty corner looked like a great place for a bath and a nap. I disagreed. He left to find a hiding place soon after the vacuum arrived. The small desk got moved into this corner where the first green cabinet was. The second green cabinet stayed in place.
This is how the room looked when I got done. The small desk on the left isn’t used for anything. Basically it’s just being “stored” in my creative space. I’ve since moved it out and put the rolling cart from the closet there. I put my wooden ruler rack on top of the cart because it’s right next to the small cutting area set up on my “L” shaped sewing workspace.
I have a small clip-on lamp on the top right corner of the table where my sewing machine sits. When it’s on, the shadow that you see on my sewing machine bed disappears. I’ve added a divided basket on the table near the small cutting area to hold scissors, rotary cutters & miscellaneous notions. It sort of hides the cables from the back of my computer… I want to paint the basket so I’ll show you a picture when it’s done.
My new desk area. Yippee! Lots of space on the left to spread out because I’m a LEFTIE. I’ve been in here several nights during the past week working on census stuff at my desk. It’s been heavenly. See the new-to-me monitor? It belonged to my youngest son — he gave it to me. Everyone should have kids as great as mine. Seriously.
The dry sink is still obscuring my design wall which I don’t like/want. If I put it on the other wall though, there’s not a lot of room to fit between it and the file cabinet when I’m trying to get to my desk. I’m not sure what the solution is going to be. This may be the one problem area of the redo…
And finally, the quilt rack. This wasn’t in the room originally but I wanted to put it in here. It holds quilts in progress and ones that need to be quilted. It’s not the right shade of green so I’m going to paint it purple. Yep, purple is going to be my main accent color in here. (I love color!) At the thrift store, I found the divided basket, a small saucer to hold my bobbins and a green inkwell-looking glass thingy for $1 each.
Total spent to date: $3
Looks wonderful, Erin! That’s how I planned my sewing room too – on graph paper with cut-outs I could move around. Really helps you get a feel for the room, doesn’t it?
This looks so nice & neat . . . totally unlike my own shambles! Where are you now? We just got back from VA.Clayton renewed our vows for us for our 30th. He has a cute little congregation back there.He completed his BA and he & Sarah are both beginning their Masters. Is this the same kid I had to fight with to do high school? He finally just settled on a GED. I think he’s doing what he’s supposed to & that makes a difference. I never hear from anyone.I used to see Alice on Facebook, but haven’t for awhile. Thought we were going to see Lynda back there, but they said it was too far. We went to their place last time we were back there. Oh well. What’s up with Cindy? Is this her posting above, in which case I’ve misspelled her name. Well, this is beautiful!!!! Dawn
Good luck on your re-do. Seems like it always ends up taking more time and costing more than we originally thought, but you are doing great on your budget. I find it helps to just sit in the room and think about where to put things too – the one dimensional graph paper layout never works for me. Looks great so far, so it must be just the trick for you in your planning.
One suggestion on your dry sink..put it on wheels. Then when you are sewing and want to use your design wall you can easily move it out of the way. When at the desk, you can roll it back to the design wall.
Re-do looks great Erin…so different. Expecting lots of blogging of UFO’s getting finished :) Seriously it looks terrific. i wish my place looked as neat…would you belive I cant find a thing! Good suggestion for the dry sink. I have what is called a ‘dumb waiter’ silly isnt it, but its on wheels and its great to move round…though I havnt seen the top of it for some time now (G)
Erin! How is this going? Just thought I’d check in and let you know I was here and visiting… more than merely lurking!