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Studying the Studio

When I started my business (Pink Loves Brown), I used a second bedroom in the apartment we were renting as my studio. Soon work spilled out into the rest of our home, and areas like the dining room table became the shipping center. After two years, I had finally rented a separate studio space! Hooray! 600 square feet of space!

Then we decided to buy a house, and I gave up the studio. I don’t want to sound like I’m complaining, because it is a trade-off I was more than happy to make. Brandon and I both wanted a house so badly, and there is room here for me to make a studio… in a spare bedroom. Just like when I started. ;)

So now the space has gone from 600 square feet down to about 150. It’s tight, but manageable.

A lot of work has been done already. I’ve painted the dragon (YAY), turned the closet into storage for crafty supplies, and setup my shipping center (not on the dining room table, thankyouverymuch). Still to do: rip up the carpet and lay the solid bamboo floors, paint the wood trim white, and change the window treatments.

Plus it feels a little bland in there. Maybe I shouldn’t have gotten rid of the dragon!

Pink Loves Brown, Studio • 5 Comments • March 19, 2007

We choose you, bamboo.

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A decision has been made about the bedroom floor! Brandon and I went to Lowes last night and we chose solid bamboo in a very dark brown (Jacobean). Hooray! We ordered enough for the bedroom and for the studio, so no more yucky carpet for us!

Bedroom, Studio • 4 Comments • March 15, 2007

Butterflies in my Stomach

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Hrmmm… What do you all think about this?

I was at Paper Source today, and I just happened to see those buterflies. So I thought: “Oh! I can frame them in little shadowboxes and hang them down the hallway!” I bought that textured yellow paper, and I can pick up some white shadowboxes pretty inexpensively.

I was planning to put them in the library/hallway/upstairs space, and I think they’d look good against the chocolate brown walls. I’ve never really been into taxidermy or butterflies, so it’s sort of strange to me that I thought to do this little art project. I still think I might just return the butterflies and do something else. We’ll see.

*edited to add: No need to worry, butterfly lovers. These are indeed fake butterflies!

Library • 2 Comments • March 13, 2007

The Perils of Coupons

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My living room looks like a mini Pottery Barn warehouse. It’s not my fault – really! They lured me in with a coupon (the “welcome to the neighborhood” discount) and clearance merchandise.

Ta da! That will soon be one of two lamps flanking the bed. They swivel and rotate and are all-around nifty.

And see? &! As in Smart & Lovely! It looks a little strange all by itself in a messy office, but it’s still pretty neat.

I also picked up several card racks. I’m pretty jazzed about them! They’re really quite pretty, and they were about the same price as the regular old boring card racks (yay, clearance!). I think they might be a little heavy to lug around to shows, but they might be worth the extra effort.

So…Beware the Post Office! They sell your name when you move, and you get tempting, tempting coupons!

Bedroom, Office • 0 Comments • March 13, 2007

The Chicken or the Egg

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So many projects are hinging on other projects around here. The living room hasn’t been painted because I want it to complement the wallpaper for the dining room (which hasn’t been chosen yet). The dining room is in shambles because the kitchen cabinets (not yet assembled) are in there. The kitchen has stalled because I want to paint the ceiling to start, but I haven’t picked a light fixture (I may be changing the placement).

Things are not much better upstairs. None of my clothes are put away because we haven’t built the new closet/wardrobe yet. That hasn’t been done because we want to paint the bedroom first, but of course we’re waiting to do that because we might take up the carpet (and therefore the baseboards too). And the painting of the library/hall hasn’t continued for two reasons: there are clothes strewn about, and I haven’t decided what to do for the ceiling color.

*sigh* …so I guess I need to pick a light(s) for the kitchen, and decide what to do about the bedroom floor.

Bedroom, Dining Room, Kitchen, Library, Living Room • 2 Comments • March 12, 2007