Garage conversion - project room for me - YIPPEEEEEE!

Right, so here's the thing.  I know I'm lucky to have the space I have but with a houseful of students staying with us in the early part of this year I was worried about my projects taking a back seat when the spare room was in use.  When we had students last year I found that my activities kind of slowed to a stop as all my gear lives in the spare room wardrobe.

I'm really keen to scale it up this year, not the other way around so I put my thinking cap on.   Result - garage conversion!

Now, we have not been able to fit the car (or anything much else) in the garage for almost two years so nothing lost there.  However, the reason we have not been able to fit the car in is the amount of "stuff" lurking in there.  Solution - deal with the "stuff" and create a brand new "project space" and area for the printer/filing etc so that all that stuff is out of my therapy room - yay.

It's taken a bit of a reshuffle,otherwise known as "Leigh's Big Day In".  It was a big day and I was shattered by the end but I'm super excited by the space I've created.  I've split the garage in half  across the middle so that all the utility stuff is at the front and therefore easily accesible when the door is up. 

The non-projecty, non-sewing friends amongst you will look at this and maybe think, yeah so but to me, this means a whole new level of opportunity.  A space where I can have my "works in progress" around and can leave them out when I'm not working on them.  Somewhere where my machines, tools, fabrics can be set up and ready to go anytime without driving my family crazy, oh the bliss!  Any sewer or crafter with limited spare time will know relate to how much energy is spent packing up and getting out your stuff to work on the project.  Sometimes I'm getting too tired in the evenings before I'm even set up so a designated "Leigh space" is unbelievably decadent.  I've actually been cruising out there just to look at it and imagine the possibilities, sad but true.

So, without further blabbing on, here are the pics of my new "room":