This article from the Guardian (and a recent article in Eve about 'Women and their Sheds') has prompted me to put down in writing an ambition of mine which has been tugging at my heart lately - to have my own studio or workspace.
Ceramicist Lubna Chowdhary spent £22,000 on a David Adjaye-designed studio for her garden. Mine doesn't have to be anything more than a dedicated room in my home where all my creative stuff lives. At the moment my desk is in my (cramped, single) bedroom, along with my sewing machine and materials. Crates of fabric fill the nook in the hallway and the top shelf in my wardrobe, and the bottom drawer of my clothes chest houses my staple gun, printing stuff, paints etc. Next to that are two laundry bags full of yarn. The bookcase in the living room has all my reference books and sketchbooks. How great would it be to have them all in one place?!
I've spotted a bright pink computer desk in the IKEA catalogue - I could have my sewing machine on top and store my laptop (the one I'd buy if I had a spare £700) on the keyboard shelf. Not gonna happen. At the moment I'm renting a 2-bed and we need a room each. Should the day ever come when I'm renting a 2-bed with someone I'd be sharing a bedroom with then maybe we could have the other room as a workroom. (Message Plums - something else you'll have to fill him in on at Orientation...)
It would be wonderful to have my bedroom just as a room to sleep, dress and read in. It would be like Nanna's bedroom was - with a little slipper armchair upholstered in pink velvet, an old kidney-shaped dressing table with a tilting mirror and a matching stool, and one of those crystal dressing table sets - bowls, a tray and a pair of candlesticks... mmm.
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