My room is more or less done and sorted. Would you like to see?
Here’s the wall opposite the window:
The map of the world is there to help me improve my geography, which is pretty poor; also I like to see where parcels of thread and fabric are going on their long journeys overseas. The music stand is supposed to encourage me to practise my flute, which hasn’t seen the light of day for about ten years. I’ve never played it particularly well but it used to be something I enjoyed, so I intend to make time for it.
Going anti-clockwise around the room:
The pictures on the wall are from a Ton Schulten calendar. I find his colour palette and compositions very uplifting.
There is room to grow on the Kallax unit:
I have plans for that top left space: at some point I will make a miniature (twelfth scale) model of my work room. Just for the fun of it. I don’t know where I’m going to find all this extra time yet, by the way.
Next to the drawers I have two Ikea Micke desks placed at right angles to make an L shaped workspace. The right-hand side is for admin:
You can never have too many bookmarks, right?
And the other side is for more creative work:
The holly tree outside is in our garden; the conifer next to it is in next door’s garden. The trees are full of squirrels and at the moment we are engaged in a futile battle of wills trying to keep them off the bird feeders. There is a squirrel baffle en route at this very moment so we’ll see if that outwits them.
Moving around the room again, one of the fitted wardrobes has been fitted with shelves and has become a separate space for the contents of the shop – threads, fabrics and packaging materials.
There is a lot of floor space in the middle of the room:
I probably need some sort of comfortable chair, something to curl up and read in. It can wait.
The finished room is almost exactly as I imagined it would look when we first saw the house in October, and every time I walk in here I find myself smiling.
I’ll spend this week sifting through some ideas and thoughts to see if I can roughly plan the rest of the year.
But for today, I think I will just enjoy my new space and start on today’s daily stitching:
