originally it had about 6 different colours on the walls. being a small little space this made it look messy and cluttered. if a place looks cluttered when its empty, adding furniture often then makes it worse. the room needed help.
in stepped a fresh coat of paint. this made a phenomenal difference. having all the walls the same colour makes the space seem a little bigger. this is opposite to what i have heard but the solid colour makes the walls seem longer. strange but in my mind its cool. anyway...
something that was taking up lots of floor space was the speaker stands that we use whenever she gets a gig somewhere. these speakers also double as the sound system in her studio. shelves where needed. no i don't have progress photos for any of these things. remember the first statement? everything just happened. we don't even have a before picture of the studio. i had some plywood from some old crates that got thrown out at work. the speakers where going up in the corners so measure the angle of the corners. (nothing is square at my house...) cut a circular sector out of the plywood. i also just drew a nice pattern and made the brackets (i don't know what you call those) that hold the shelves against the wall.
those 'brackets' are held on with pocket hole joinery. go search it its pretty cool.
at work one of my colleagues needed some beefy tent pegs. the little ones that came with his gazebo where just not doing the job the our coastal winds. i agreed and went scratching in the scrap box at work. i found these 8mm stainless steel rods.
cut them to size
welded and bent them to shape using some acetylene heat.
these are some beefy tent pegs but they ended up being too thick and did not fit into his gazebos peg slots, so made some thinner ones that i did not take a picture of.
i got to do some sand blasting for another friend who is busy restoring a radial arm saw from the 70s, i think. etc and so on and so. the projects are now piling on! lets keep going...
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