THANK YOU everyone for your wonderful comments about my studio! Here are a few more shots I thought you might enjoy... First, I have a huge work table in the middle of the room, which is never, NEVER clean! It has shelves all around it, filled to the max with books, supplies and papers... This is my 'Command Central', where my artwork gets dreamed up... The far wall is one huge book shelf that goes from wall to wall, and is filled with art books... (No joke, about my being a 'book junkie'!) I keep my Chinese Baby Hat collection on the top shelf, for color inspiration and just pure pleasure!
A few of the shelves are given over to other things besides books - One can always put books in a box in the garage - right? I love to have my favorite fabrics out on view, and then there's the 'Chinese Pin-Cushion' collection...
Here is my 'Techno-Corner' where I keep my computer, printer, and stereo... I love the view out the little window too! And here is how my French doors look today, its winter, so I have taken in the chair cushions, but let me tell you, when the sun is out in the Spring, and the Apple Tree is in bloom - there is no place better to do some creative dreamin...! I put all my paper and silk flowers in a pot by the door, to add some 'fake' spring to the look...
Storage is a big issue for me, as it is for many artists I know. I continually fight the "I want it to look nice" with the "God, I have too much stuff..." syndrome! Compromise is at hand... (Thats what garages are for -Right???) I have pretty baskets out for the pretty things, like this one filled with Vintage papers and goodies... And then I use a lot of plastic bins under the long narrow table on the back wall. Someday I'll give them some pretty lables and they'll hopefully look nicer. I dream of covering them in linen or fabric, alas I seem to never have the time...
Now for the UGLY... Did I mention we have a 'Garage'? Unfortunately our garage, has never functioned as a garage (anybody else have that same problem???) I think my childhood as a gypsy and no space to collect, has led to my adult-hood of not being able to let anything go! Our garage, affectionately known as the 'Hole', "...be careful not to fall in the 'Hole', you may not be able to get out...!" is the space where all good things eventually come to rest. I am not too proud to show you this 'Hole', its just another side of Ulla! One filled with boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes (get the picture?) of "wonderful treasures" or as my husband says, "Ulla's Junk". Multiply the photo by about 8 and you see reality... So now the Truth is out, my 'Photo-Pretty' Studio is a screen for where the real stuff lies... Hope you enjoyed the tour, I sure had fun showing you!!!
