the playroom

Today I'm taking you on a walk around my sewing room/workroom/studio space.
As I've said before, normal people would probably call it the living room, opening as it does directly from the front door... or should that be the MAIN door ?... because my kitchen also faces the front of the house and so the kitchen door is also a 'front' door.
This is not quite as bizarre as it sounds because the house is built across the hill and the best [ read 'only'] views are to the front so any designer worth his salt would take advantage of that ... right?
a small but relevant digression:
Marc had wonderful plans for purpose-built furnishings for the studio at the other house but unfortunately became ill and passed away before he could realise most of them, so I ended up with a cobbled together bunch of hand-me-downs and I guess I just stopped seeing them after a while.
When I moved here three years ago, I had plans to convert the carport into a studio space so everything sort of got plonked down in this area as a 'temporary measure' and just ... stayed.
functional? mostly
attractive? not so much
but I'm sure you all know how that is - you live with what you have
anyway
I decided recently that the space needed reorganising and that I was allowed to treat myself to some decent furniture [ shock! horror! ]

Anyway, if you come in that door - this is what's directly ahead of you:
to the right [ no photo] is what used to be the dining room and is now the loungeroom/livingroom/seating area/what-have-you and to the left?
Well first and foremost are my birthday and Christmas present to myself in the form of three new bookcases.
I just love them.
My vintage machines are now down out of the shed [ well some of them ]
My quilt books are back in the working space
oh is there anything better than having enough bookcases?
well yeah there probably is, but this is still pretty spiffy :]
and yes, I do realise that's only two but you'll see the other in a sec
See? There it is!
It's a 3' wide one and the others are 4'
Down the centre of the room are two of the three 4' square tables that Marc made for the last house. Eventually I'd like to get the third one back in here with an as yet unmade fourth so that I could have an 8' work area ... one day ... it's on the list right after learning Esperanto.
The design wall is just some caneite particle board laid against the wall. Getting it framed and properly wall mounted is also on the list after learning Esperanto.

oh and through that wee door is the room where the fabric stash lives - mistakenly thought to be a study by the previous owner.

This is the view through the front window which is usually a bit obscured by the presence of the ironing board - which got put in the stash room over Christmas ... we will now pause for Nadie to adjust to the idea that I can, and have, moved [ but not put down ] the ironing board, ... and these? are the two pieces that I am contemplating starting and we may talk more of them tomorrow