Fibermania

Nevermind

...Emily Litella

We figured out what to do with the big back room.

It will be my new studio. Gulp! This is the fourth room in this house to try out as my studio and hopefully the last.

We cleaned it out, almost, and the rest of this stuff will be going, today when we get a bit more energy. I measured it. 13.4 x 29 feet. Big enough? You bet.

My studio upstairs is barely 11 feet square.

I debated the merits of taking over this room, but it began to make more and more sense. At first I felt I didn't deserve it. ( I don't know where this came from, but nonetheless I felt it). I mean I do make messes. But then we don't like the carpet and we were planning on ripping it up and doing something costly about a new floor. Since we scrapped that idea, we were left with the workshop idea, which still sounded good.

I will keep the carpet and not worry about getting stuff on it. And I will paint the walls white (um...Dave will paint them. I never paint 'his way') and eventually have new lighting put in, and it will be spectacular.

Both my painting and sewing spaces can be set up, and all those huge canvases in the garage will be brought in and get PAINTED. Plus the walls are super high, like 9.5 feet, so I can have lots of room for quilts to hang and even a big quilt design wall. Or not. The room has a fireplace, ceiling fans, two outside doors and one inside door, a lovely view of the pond gardens and a phone. And internet. All my supplies are in the hall closets right outside the room itself, keeping stuff behind closed doors. Superb.

The original owners built this room as a screened in porch and changed their minds and re-did it as a seriously insulated family room. They had a pool table and flat screen in there when we first saw it. The best part I saved for last. It is so removed from the rest of the house, that I can play loud music and it won't bother Dave. I know, because he used to do the same thing when it was his room.

When we have guests, we can easily do a switcheroo and one of us, probably me can sleep in the studio and our guests can have the upstairs suite. I am already thinking about furniture... I am a furniture junkie.

AND the space that was once my upstairs studio will become Dave's suite and the DVD watching space. The big screen will go up stairs and those black chairs and ottomans will too.

Sigh.

The perfect resolution.