I love tidy studios, so why do I manage them only about every 4 years? Originally posted 21oct08.

At last, this little project is done. A while back, I documented the pulls ; the wizard kindly finished this project for me, glueing together my misshapen drawers, mounting the drawer slide hardware, and just generally making the thing work. In the process we even bought a jack plane and tuned i...

I've recently been reading a lot of Simplicity Movement stuff, and How to Have a Successful business. Both models agree that spending money on frills is a real waste. Well, I did the no-frills route in a basement for years, and detested it. I dreamed for years of a beautiful studio, and now that...

The current studio is a work in progress . Pages include how I prepped the room, removing wallpaper , painted it with a fancy (no)faux finish , how the wizard installed an exhaust fan and how it looked in 2004 . Since then the hood , some more trim and a sound system (requiring yet more t...

I've posted some pages of my various studios, old and new (02mar05), though the pix and even some of the files date back a couple of years (one for a studio that no longer exists!) and ``moved'' one old pic to that directory. There is a little information on how I set up my ventilation, and th...

This is the first in a series of posts about how I arranged my working space. Unless you're an artist trying to set up your own space, or a DIYer looking for some home improvement tips, this page will probably strike you as either incredibly boring or self-indulgent, or both. But then, you don't ...

A fairly tight shot of my old basement flameworking studio , with a buddy...I didn't have adequate ventilation upstairs for flameworking at the old house, nor any good and secure way of installing it. The commemorative bead series also has some shots of this working space.

Here's a shot of my first floor stringing studio at the old house. Though I'm just now posting the file, it was written years ago, and thus is a tad out of date. In addition to stringing beads, I also did the company paperwork and the occasional textile/sewing type project.