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The workroom/sewing room was redone last year. Despite having stabilized a year ago, I have yet to take all new photos. Here are a few photos - some minor rearrangement may have been done since then.
It was extremely important to me that everything was easily accessible. I’m 5′2″, and I had to be careful about where I was going to place my most used items. Additionally, this room is only about 9 feet square! Organization was the key. On top of that, this room had to break down quickly to accomate a queen size inflatable guest bed.
I also had an asthetic requirement: it had to look like a studio. I chose raw pine when available and stainless steel accents.
The following features were added to my new workspace.
- Koala cabinets which collapse down entirely. They are in the “bleached Oak” color to match the raw pine.
- I have an Outback Plus (I think - the L-shaped one with a huge back support which can flip out to support large projects)
- and the Craft Center Pro, which is a large cutting table (about 6′ by 3′) which collapses into about 1′ x 3′ footprint. It has drawers and cabinets built in. I use these to store art supplies, muslin, and butcher paper rolls.
- Pine shelving by IKEA.
This was one of the “economical” series, for which you have the option to paint yourself. I put the large shelves (approx 36″ or one yard wide) on either side of a central shorter shelf. The central shorter shelves were outfitted with bars from the IKEA wardrobe series’ to accomodate the hanging of my more delicate and slippery fabrics. Above those shelves, in the area I cannot reach, I have a stereo with an Apple Airport hooked into the RCA jack. I can stream music wirelessly, and control it entirely, through the iTunes application on my computer.
At the very top of the structure, I have various rectangular pails from IKEA. I labeled their contents with magnetic letters.
- Invisible mount shelving above the crown molding
In an older building, you often have to work around, and with crown molding. In order to maximize the vaulted ceiling area, I bought white invisible mount shelves from IKEA and placed them immediately above the molding. We had to add special bolt and mounting provisions for the lathe and plaster building.
- An inexpensive swag lamp, outfitted with true light flourescent bulbs. This lamp came from our local Lamps Plus (Outlet). It was around $30. The bulbs actually cost more. It was not a swag lamp originally, we retrofitted it with a Home Depot kit as there was no provision for a ceiling fixture in this 1910 house.
- Misc organizing do-dads from IKEA, The Container Store, and Target to find novel ways to organize my notions and supplies… a never ending quest. We installed metal strips along the walls (The cheap IKEA kind), to which I can place various magnet-equipped cans, tins and cupholders.
- The very last task was to refinish my grandmothers old sewing cabinet (you can see what it originally looked like on the “About” page. There is a photo of it there. It had been beat up a lot since that photo was taken. I stripped it down with liquid furniture stripper, stained and lacquered it. I even repainted the insides of the drawers. I replaced the handles, too. You wouldn’t know it - they matched the style so well! Lastly, I removed the metal caps from the legs and put felts on them instead to protect the antique hardwood floors in our home. All supplies from Lowe’s.
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