My Space

Back some years ago My Space was a popular platform to post and share personal stuff online.   I still have a My Space account and I look at it every once in awhile.  Not sure why this platform went south - something came around better - always changing.

Well, this post isn't about My Space, but about my space - a studio!
Above our attached garage is a large living area with a huge family room, a full bath and a large bedroom.  Over the past many years our sons have claimed it as their space.  First my oldest, Dave, claimed it in 2000 when he was in high school.  When he left for college in 2003 my youngest son, Bill, claimed it as his space.
Bill lived in this space until the spring of 2018.  His father built him a house of his own house so he claimed a new space.
Over the years this upstairs space has had two different boys living in it and accumulated lots of extra stuff as my son and daughter moved from college to apartments and town to town.  When Bill moved out it was a mess.
Over the next six months or so I spent cleaning up this space for me.  I painted all the rooms, which took several coats of paint, and cleaned the carpeting. Once cleaned it was ready to start moving my sewing studio into a space of its own - My Studio.  You are probably wondering why it took so long to get this area ready, but I was coming up on summer and inside projects are for rainy days so not much happened during the summer.
My space is finally finished - except for the little decorating touches that go on here and there, but it's done and very productive for me.  No more moving my sewing stuff up and down basement stairs - or onto the dining table and taking it off so we can eat a meal or when company stops by.  Sometimes just getting everything set up made me not in the mood to sew.  Now I can sew for hours or just a few minutes and my project is sitting right where I leave it to continue at a later time.   In fact this is so efficient that I'm not losing pieces of my projects or losing track of what I'm doing.  I don't think it will be as easy to abandon a project and let it become a UFO.  Also, my longarm quilter fits perfectly in this space.  Before I hated going to the basement to quilt on the cold cement floor - now it's part of my space.  It's all part of a flow.
Welcome to My Studio!

My husband made the bookshelves to go on top of this reclaimed cabinet base for storage

A large oak desk makes a great sewing and cutting table.  The desk has many drawers that hold

sewing supplies keeping my stuff handy and organized.

View from my sewing machine.  I'm using half the area for sewing and left the other half as an area for visiting/workout.
My husband decided that he needed to add to the area and bought this treadmill.  Wasn't in my original plan, but I use it regularly - so no complaints. 

My space has also became a space for lots of plants.

Sewing has become so convenient that when Christmas came around I was able to start and complete many gifts within a few weeks.  I can't be more pleased with my studio.  If no one answers the door I bet I'm in the studio.