Where Bloggers Create - Ta Dah......!

Following on from the previous post.......

Walls painted a perfect shade of pale blue, it was time for the new carpet, a darker shade of the same perfect blue.

Loving that new carpet smell......

Newly repainted storage units reinstalled.....

During this phase, we rigged up extra electric sockets, boosting the original paltry 6 sockets to 16!  

 

 Dark wood bookshelves repainted with wonderful chalk paint to match storage units.

Work desk reinstated

 Finally with all the storage units in place, it was time to put EVERYTHING all back in again.....

You can NEVER have too much storage!

 The finished room.... definitely more chic than shabby!

 One of our cover features for Doll's House Magazine

World map mounted on foamboard so that I can use map pins to 

show locations of my blog readers and international customers

 My current project 'La Mignonette'

Magazine are stored in colour-coordinated box files

The tools of my trade are housed in boxes with printed colour slips inside

My little day nursery back in place, complete with miniature Small Dog!

Combined storage and work station

I just couldn't put my grubby, old, black, office chair back in there so my

luxury is a new IKEA chair, which fortunately has removeable, washable covers!

A place for everything, and everything in its place.....

An invaluable reference library of books on toys and games....

And inspirational Fairy Tales!

Storage unit and packaging supplies hidden behind vintage-look curtain

More storage for tiny bits and pieces.....

Wooden MOPPE boxes from IKEA, chalk painted then decorated with 

printed shabby chic papers, which I can change when the fancy takes me.

Space on top of the bookshelves for vintage toys and ephemera

Yet more storage in the form of sturdy cardboard boxes.....

A small selection of our tiny toy doll's dolls, miniature porcelain toy animals

and vintage Punch and Judy toy theatre.

I just love it!  We finally have a space in which to work which makes my heart sing.

It's not 100% finished......there are still some bits and pieces to tidy away, and a few more finishing touches to add, before I can start putting it all to use.  That is, if I can bear to make it even a little bit messy!

Perhaps I finally have the incentive I need to work in a more organised way, clearing away tools and materials and tidying up after each and every work session......

Where Bloggers Create - A labour of love......

I'm finally nearing the end of the workroom makeover.  It's taken three weeks, from first starting to empty the room and dismantle all the storage to putting up the final shelf this afternoon but the transformation is nothing short of amazing.

In its 'Before' state it was unlovely and unloved. 

More functional than fun.  
Boring rather than brilliant.
More dull than delightful...
Insipid rather than inspiring.....

It hadn't been touched since the day we moved in, almost 10 years ago, when the necessity to get it up and running as quickly as possible so that we could resume work, was paramount.
Over the intervening years I'd casually thought about redecorating but the thought of all the upheaval and disruption quickly quelled my enthusiasm for the project.  

So it was only when we decided to have some renovation works carried out on the house, which meant that there would be upheaval and disruption anyway, it seemed to make sense to grasp the nettle and do the workroom at the same time.

 Preparing for painting

Decorating completed, old carpet lifted

Afer all the boring stuff, the fun could then begin.....

Where Bloggers Create......

If you're a first time visitor to my blog, and have come here see my creative work space on the first day of 'Where Bloggers Create',  then I have to 'fess up straight away and apologise for there being nothing to see.

Yet.

My workroom has been having a complete makeover from top to bottom and inside out, and despite my very best efforts, the trials and tribulations of the past few weeks have caught up with me and the Grand Reveal won't happen until next week.

With luck and a following wind, most probably Wednesday.

It will be worth the wait..... honestly. 

In the meantime, during the intermission, here's my version of the old TV test card......