I have some big news for my studio for 2012. I'm moving my studio up from the basement to our living room/dining room area. Yes the Tin Man has finally broken down and allowed me to come out of the dungeon-I mean the basement. I have had my studio in the basement for many, many years and it's a wonderfully large area but it's the basement and feel like I'm in a cave. So needless to say I'm ecstatic about the move. It's going to be a lot of work and I'll try to keep you posted on the progress. Right now I'm trying to empty out the living/dining room to get started on painted, lighting and replacing the flooring. It's like down sizing without moving. How to find a place or purge some things to empty two rooms! Hence the picture of my bookshelf in the family room. I'm afraid I didn't think to take a before picture but trust me it looks a lot better than it did. I found these large 12"x12" cube shelf hard to display things in because I had so many little nicknacks. After getting some inspiration from
Pinterest(come and follow me, but be warned it's addictive) I decided to make it more about us, I used lots of books since we are huge book lovers. And as you probably can guess I'm a big vintage and antiques lover so that's the themes I went with to fill up the bookshelf. I tried to put only things that have some meaning to us here. Well having said that the books don't necessarily have meaning so much as being symbolic of books and antiques. So this is what I've been playing around with for the last couple of weeks and yes you can imagine the mess the place has been in during this process. Now I'd love to get your feedback on my end results...too cluttered, unbalanced, anything at all you can share would be great. Although I'm fairly happy with it I'm sure I'll keep tweaking it some.
Now to get pack up all those things I don't have room for any more!
Thanks for helping out.
Wendy
3 comments:
Looks great! I said that to myself before I even read the post. Wish my bookcases looked so nice:) I work in the dungeon,,,I mean basement too but NO MORE as when we moved here we dug out all around two walls of the basement and put BIG windows in and turned the whole basement into an apartment so I actually feel like I am in civilization and no longer stuck down here....you are lucky to be moving upstairs though:) good luck with downsizing and moving on up...
Lucky you, moving to the first floor! Good luck with the move, I decided last year to move from the machine shed to the house, taking over an upstairs spare bedroom. I had to do lots of purging, still am, and am still rethinking the layout. It seems to never end. My biggest issue is how to store everything, as I'm a visual creator. And everything is in so many different sizes. I'll be anxiously awaiting the end result, as I will probably get some great organizing ideas!
I love the way the shelves look, very nice indeed. Being up where it is bright will be so nice for you. I think the Tin man will enjoy his man cave too.
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