Aug 28
No More Leaks!
In: Blog, Life's Design Tagged: design studioIf you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!We have recently made another big improvement on the design studio for DbR. J took a weekend and put a new roof on my building. It was another exciting, and vitally important, step in completing it before winter. We had [...]
READ MORE »Mar 23
Design Studio Interior Complete!!
In: Life's Design Tagged: design studioThe inside of my shop is officially finished and I have moved in. What a relief and an absolute blessing to have this space available to me. I feel the inspiration swell when I sit down at my computer to work. My printers and new vinyl cutter are all working beautifully and I am so [...]
READ MORE »Feb 25
Design Studio Update
In: Life's Design Tagged: design studio 1 commentThe smell of pine is in the air, as the boards go on the wall, one by one. The transformation is amazing. The ceiling is in, painted and the lighting is up. My new front door is in and just waiting for an open sign. J and M started putting up the tongue and groove [...]
READ MORE »Feb 16
Design Studio Beginning to Take Shape
In: Life's Design Tagged: design studioSince I finished tearing out the insulation, changes have been happening very quickly at the shop. J and M have rewired the whole building, replaced a few boards, pulled out the old windows, replaced the front ones with shiny, clean new ones and boarded the back wall up. They have now started putting in new [...]
READ MORE »Feb 09
Interior Shop Demolition is Done!
In: Life's Design Tagged: design studioThis past weekend I hit the turn-around point in the shop renovations. I finished pulling out the rest of the insulation from the walls and J helped to remove a lot of the stuff that was still cluttering the floor. He and a friend of ours has begun the rewiring, to be finished tomorrow. Their [...]
READ MORE »Jan 31
Design Studio Update
In: Life's Design Tagged: design studio 2 commentsLife has been pretty busy lately, so I hadn’t initially planned to get any work done on the shop this weekend. Surprisingly, however, I ended up spending a few hours both yesterday and today wreaking havoc on the interior. Demolition is fun! I stripped the ceiling of panels and began removing insulation from the walls. [...]
READ MORE »Jan 03
Big step forward in Shop renovation
In: Life's Design Tagged: design studioI spent the first two days of the New Year working towards getting my design studio renovated. January 1 my father came in and helped me remove the large bench on the front wall. We quickly found out that my grandfather was not afraid to use nails, screws and a combination of the two. After [...]
READ MORE »Dec 21
Window shopping
In: Life's Design Tagged: the ShopJ and I spent over an hour at our local hardware store wandering the aisles and pricing out my wish list for DbR’s Shop revitalization. We looked at windows and doors, flooring, cabinets, shelving units, lighting (inside and outside) and counter tops. The photos of the Shop may not look any different this week, but the [...]
READ MORE »Dec 09
Workshop to Printshop: Cleaning
In: Life's Design Tagged: design studioI began the arduous task of cleaning out the Shop on Saturday. I wish I had taken pictures before I got started, because looking at the photos I shot aftwards, you might not be able to tell I accomplished anything at all. I plan on keeping a running update of pics and stuff from here [...]
READ MORE »Dec 04
A New Shop for DbR
In: Life's Design Tagged: design studio 1 commentI am so excited!! I have been working out of my living room for months now and my little corner has become very congested with my new printer and my increasing stock of paper and files. I am also looking into more equipment… but I’ll save that for another post. So to start from the “beginning”… [...]
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