Studio makeover step 2

Stage one of 'making the studio better' involved shelving. Things have improved, but some of the storage in my ironing area was still cheap and nasty, and I thought the use of space was far from optimal. Stage one also involved the decision to try to buy storage boxes and accessories in either black or white (or both) to give the room some sort of coordination and not compete with the fabric.

So as an early anniversary/birthday present, we purchased a couple of the 36 inch tall Closet Aid sort of cubical storage units and a 24" by 48" pine table top that will be covered to use as a big ironing surace with the storage units as its legs. I'm tall so the 38" height will be fine. I believe I'll have better access to my design wall, too.

I suspect that the storage units moving out of the room will be easy to redeploy in the basement. Win win.

Major studio improvements

Recently I have been losing myself in some of those magazines about other people's studios. I'm in no danger of adding onto the house or laying down new flooring, but I have just purchased a small bookcase to better house my magazines and a large commercial grade shelving unit (60" wide, 77" tall, 24 inch wide shelves) to hold my stash. I was really tired of getting under tables to haul out fabric bins and taking far too long to sort out left-overs after projects were done.

The magaine bookcase is assembled and populated, and Costco says my commercial grade shelves are in transit.

Something about all this possessed me to even put a quilt top in the frame.