MY "Work Room" - TAA DAAA!!!

Wwwaaaayyyyy back when I gave you my new finished basement tour (just keep back tracking from this link if you want to see the basement tour) - - several of you asked me "But Sher, where is YOUR work room?" I responded with an answer of "behind that door in the kitchen. . . and you're not going to see it!!" Well, thanks to our awesome Michigan winter (still lingering here by they way) - I was snowed in enough to start to make some progress in that area.

Here's what you see when you open the door in the kitchen. Not much. Just the furnaces and water heater. I keep that old swivel chair around to cut my husband's hair every two to three weeks. Yup, he doesn't have much, so it's an easy clipper cut. Actually, I cut my 19 year old nephew's hair yesterday too. Funny, those guys with all the hair (nephew) cuts his hair the same length as my husband who doesn't have much hair!

When you make a right, you see the built in shelves my husband made for me. They are wonderfully strong and I'm able to store a lot of items on these babies! Here you can see my paint supplies, many boxes of mementos and keepsakes of our daughters of things they wish to hang on to.

Another right and you're in my workroom! My husband hung up cupboards to match the kitchen for my storage items. I have my serger, my old sewing machine and my brand new embroidery machine. Next picture is a close up.

If you click on the above photo and enlarge you may be able to see a few projects I was working on. They were tote bags and aprons for my brother's grandchildren for Easter. So, if they are my nephew's children, I guess they are my Great Nieces, or is that my Grand Nieces? Oh, I get so confused!!

Next picture is the other side of my work room with my storage solutions. Not perfect, not ideal, but it works for me :) You can see my wrapping paper and seasonal wreaths hanging from the beam behind this area. I like to have a place for everything. . . and everything in its place. Yes, at times I can drive my family totally NUTS!! I like things orderly, labels and neat.

Now if you turned left from the above photo position, you would come to the other side of the shelves and walk back to my paint table (following photos):

To the right of this table and all along the wall are all built in storage shelves too. Of course, the majority of this space is taken up with my Christmas decor. I love to decorate for the holidays!

So, there you have it. MY basement work area. I call this. . . the last frontier. It was a mess. It was dirty, it was dusty, it was unorganized. I knew I must tackle it once and for all so I could get my work room in order and begin my projects again. With the basement finishing project going on for soooo long, everything just kind of got shoved into this area. After purging, tossing and donating I was able to finally able to move around enough to "get working!"

The only area left? When you walk in from the kitchen. . . immediately to the left. That's our exercise area. I have to clean and organize the treadmill, stepper, and home gym area. I just had an electrical plug installed last week for the treadmill. Now the "family" wants to be able to watch TV while working out. Give me a break!!! I thought that's what the IPODS were for. . . that they just had to have!!

Blessings. . . until next time,