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 been having some very heavy rainstorms and found that the old roof was leaking terribly.  …

The 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 …

The 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 …

Since 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 …

This 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 …

Life 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.  …

I 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 …

I 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 …

I 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”…  …