New Studio Tour

In my new home in Virginia, I had to let go of the classroom studio I had in my Texas home for so many years. The room my husband and I chose is a narrow room with a bay window on the first floor. It was meant to be a home office. While my husband works from home frequently, we prefer him to be up on the second floor away from the noises of everyday living (and out of my way!). The room is much smaller than the joined living room/dining room space I took over in Texas (see here for photos of that space). I had tried a smaller room like this once before in Texas so I thought I’d learn from past mistakes…don’t try to cram too much in there! Well, I didn’t learn as well as I thought I did.

Initially, I planned this room would be for creating art and working on my scrapbooks (a major hobby of mine). Any other crafts, like sewing, would be set up in the basement. Yes, basement! Woo-hoo…those things are really cool! I quickly discovered this room wasn’t quite big enough for both art and scrapbooking. I haven’t moved the scrapbooking supplies downstairs yet but you can see in the photos that it’s pretty tight.

With my daughter and grandson staying with us temporarily (her husband is proudly serving our country overseas), I also had to move ALL the cat stuff into the studio.
So a few issues I’m still working through but the positives are north light, great view from the bay window, built-in bookshelves and it’s still a room just for my artmaking!

Enjoy the messy photos, I’ll consider this my ‘before’ shots and post again when I get it cleaned up and organized.

 

 

 

 

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