This is the last post for the Studio Makeover and De-Clutter month. Congratulations and thank-you to all who participated. After I was 90% finished with the studio makeover, and had already cleaned up, we decided to re-do a wall. There were holes in the sheetrock where we once planned to move a water pipe for […]
Studio Makeover and de-clutter challenge
Hiding stuff from people can be a good thing
Week 4 and one more week to go in the Studio Makeover and De-Clutter Challenge so now it’s time to HIDE stuff. I don’t mind a mess when I’m working since I’m focused on what I’m doing. But for an open studio one of my challenges is to hide all the stuff I use, or […]
Playing in the mud can be productive
The end of procrastination. Not. I never finished mudding, texturizing and painting the wall we put up to replace the pegboard in 2009. So I decided it was time. I also decided I’d paint it something other than white. Doing my research I got a gazillion color swatches from Lowe’s and I even used the free […]
Been there, done that
We bought this house with the idea that I’d use the garage as my studio. Two car garage. Nice space. But it was very dark and uninviting since there was no natural light. So the first thing we did was to put in a side entrance door with glass. My dear husband did it […]
Why the “after” pictures look so good
Don’t you just love before and after makeover photos? I’m a sucker for all the makeover TV shows and hair salon magazines showing ordinary people being transformed with just a new haircut (and new makeup, special lighting, and soft focus lenses, of course). We like the ‘after’ photos because we’ve seen the ‘before’ pictures. So […]
Create an ideal studio in 30 days – a Studio Makeover Challenge
Do you love looking at artists’ studios? Is yours in need of help? As a fledgling artist, I’d spend hours drawing floor plans for my ideal studio. It would be on the side of a mountain, with a wall of windows overlooking a lake. It would be modern, clean, uncluttered with high ceilings, loads of […]
A Tuscan style studio view
Homes in New Mexico have Canales instead of downspout gutters. These are basically just holes with a metal u-shaped lip where the water pours off the house in a torrent on the few days a year when we get rain – usually in the form of flash flooding. This all began in trying to address […]