more on the studio

my friend, meg of paper stampede made this paper mache bison head for our studio. i love it. the shelf underneath was found by my sister at a yard sale and she painted it white.

our closet

past clients/friends Diana and Ryan constructed this equipment closet for us last weekend. It’s amazing.

new additions to note are our shelves:

these are made from trash picked closet doors, and ikea shelf brackets.

our chalkboard wall, painted by cassidy and dustin

our showcase of wedding work

and custom molding around our front door, cut and installed by me!

D.I.Y. Studio – grand opening!

Oh boy so we really did it. We really moved my 400 pound desk! Here’s proof!

So all of my furniture is moved in, and is starting to get set up. I’m really excited to see what the other photographers (Emily, Cassidy, and Dustin) will add! Right now only about 1/4th of room is furnished and set up. The rest is still a barren wasteland for now. We definitely need some serious shelving in order to unpack all my boxes of stuff that I can’t find anywhere for. Right now I have 2 long pieces of wood, and 2 short wide pieces that I trash picked awhile back that will be great for shelves. I’m going to pick up 2 more pieces in the next week and then probably start drilling stuff in!

The bathrooms are still another obstacle. We decided not to paint to save ourselves some time. But we definitely need some better lighting in there and probably shelves and decorative elements ASAP.

Things we still need to do:
paint the doors
paint the outside walls
paint the elevator (still questionable)
find wallpaper and put it up on the first wall
hang photos
put up shelving
make a seamless holder for the back wall (i think we want two of them)
build a closet

DIY: trash picked shelf

So this isn’t a super hard thing to figure out. A few trash nights ago, I noticed our next door neighbors had put out some shelves in the trash. Knowing that these were Ikea shelves, I picked up a few slabs of wood. Yesterday we went to Home Depot and picked up some shelving brackets that had these neat hooks on the ends to hang things, and today we put it up at the studio. Tada:

The ends of the shelf were bare (as in, not painted), so we covered them with brown gaffers tape. The tape really did a great job of covering it up and it took literally 30 seconds to do (and looks great)! I haven’t yet figured out how I’m going to organize my extra storage space, for now it’s holding things that were previously piled up on the floor. Tomorrow I’m going to finish my bench and repaint the studio walls to cover up all the scuff marks. Stay tuned for more DIY projects!