Today's Washington Post has a piece about redesigning a home office for Mom.
Yes, of course it included the color pink. Sigh.
But it got me thinking that my long planned for craft room needs to be renamed the Mom Cave. Or can someone think of something better to describe a room that will be dedicated to my needlework books, fabric, fibers, and stitching accessories?
I can sit in our downstairs office which has the same orientation as my daughter's bedroom two floors above me and plan. Desk. Work table. Bookcase. Storage. Storage. Storage. Idea boards on the walls. Etc. She's a graduate student now and if she gets a job next year any place other than the Washington D.C. area, that room is mine.
For me, it's "The UFO Room" -- I probably started it over a year ago, but haven't made much progress converting DD's old bedroom into a new sewing room. (And changing the color *away* from pink.) I got as far as sanding one of the closet doors, erasing some unfortunate teenage design ideas that had to do with glow-in-the-dark stars made from some substance I have yet to identify.
I've decided it's pedal to the metal on this project over Thanksgiving weekend. We don't usually do any big family hoopla, and so I won't start this year! Just some uninterrupted sanding/painting/carpet pulling time for as long as my energy lasts. I won't get it finished, but at least maybe a big step forward.
(And in our house, rooms are known by their former occupants. The guest room is "The room formerly known as Chris's" - or RFKAC for short. My new sewing room will be "the room formerly known as Lexa's" RFKAL).
There was an article in the paper about a year ago about people redoing their houses when a child left for college - mostly to expand bedroom space for the child left behind so they can live "en suite"!!! Huh??? Do a makeover, take down walls, etc., for a child who'll be there for five more years to give them *two* rooms to expand into? When that'll make a great space for mom or dad, who'll be there a lot longer? I just don't get it. (Like the househunting show we watched on TV last night, in which the couple just couldn't consider moving into a house with only three bathrooms for their family of four. Apparently, two kids can't share an upstairs bathroom. Each needs his/her very own.)
Sounds right. My two places - yes I know I'm spoiled - are the office/studio (cause it has the Mac, drafting table, shelves, etc), and the stitchin' place (which is downstairs sharing space in the rec room). Eventually we're going to finish a room that is already set-up downstairs to be my workroom for the messy stuff. Mostly I'm in the office/studio. Downstairs is where the sewing machine is, and my daylight lamp, so that I can stitch when watching the big boy tv.
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