I got a new job! Where I work from home! I wake up at 3:00am thinking about spreadsheets! And since my studio is also my office, I thought it would be a kind gesture to myself to try to create some (mental) space between Thing One and Thing Two.
Currently, my computer desk is pretty central to my studio and hogging all the best northern light. I thought that having the computer against the windows would make it nice to look out on the fields. However, it turns out when you’re working at a screen, you’re mostly looking at a screen.
Zee has been trying to convince me to move my studio around for a while. He’s good at visualizing space. I am surprisingly bad at it. When he suggested building a desk against walls and in a corner I thought it was the worst idea I’d ever heard. Claustrophobia-central. But I gave it a chance and I spent a lot of time standing and facing a hideous wire rack trying to envision standing there for hours at a time.
The corner before. Let’s not discuss the ceiling situation, please.
Eventually, I started to see what he meant…
I emptied the corner,
built the frame…and did a bunch of other stuff that I didn’t photograph…
and voila!
(badass)
Zee helped me design it and gave me tips along the way. Aside from things that involved the table saw (which I’m rightfully terrified of) I did it all by myself! I don’t think I’ve ever been this proud of myself…
I can’t move in for another couple of weeks. I don’t want to risk things sticking to the paint (nothing like paint all stuck to the bottom of your electronics.)
I think the rest of studio is going to go through a hefty switcheroo once I get the feel of that corner. I’ll give you a full studio tour once that’s that. :)
xo,
.m.