new art studio – Page 2

Posted on November 17, 2016November 17, 2016 by Christina — Leave a comment

The Next Group of New Art Studio Pics

The interior of the New Art Studio has taken me a lot longer than I thought, but working full-time with my Hubby the Attorney (running a full-time law practice) keeps me busy almost 24/7. I try to fit a couple of hours out in the New Studio almost every evening, but it doesn’t always happen.

Here are the newest pics:

Coat #2 going in the cabinet doors for the south side, those are now done.

The contractor finished closing in the opening between the north and south sides, all boxed in nice and neat. Sorry the overhead lights caused a glare in this pic. Now lots more wood to paint!

Another pic of the cased opening

Was able to sell that extra bat of insulation, yay! got it out of my way.

I got the final coat on the south side back section of the walls. Once the cabinets and floor are done in this back section, my Hubby can build my counter top which will be under the cabinets for my two table top 110 kilns.

Got two coats of primer on the cabinet facing, the underside of the cabinet and right side of it, and then started the purple paint last night on the south side cabinets.

Spent lots and lots of time this week caulking the corners and seams between boards, very tedious, but it has to get done.

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Posted on November 7, 2016 by Christina — Leave a comment

More Pics of the Interior of the New Art Studio

Time for another update on my progress on the new art studio:

My wonderful Hubby got my counter top built with the wonderful piece of Corian we scored at Habitat for Humanity for $15. I have to paint the wood. It is so nice, and my Sterlite drawers will fit under it perfectly.

I have steadily been bringing in art supplies from out of the old studio in the house into the new studio out back. Just stacking stuff for now, will organize it all later.

Two coats of primer on the walls around the cabinets on the south side. Ready for the final coat of paint.

Started the primer coats on the cabinet doors for the south side.

Working on the south side cabinets so I can bring in more art supplies and put them in those cabinets, and so my hubby can build me a counter top under the cabinets. I am making good progress. More pics to come.

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Posted on November 2, 2016November 2, 2016 by Christina — Leave a comment

New Art Studio, Latest Pics

Time for a new update. Like I said after vacation we hit the ground running. Still hold my full time job working for my husband as his paralegal in our law practice. Catch up there took president over the art studio. The electrician got all the lights, outlets and ceiling fans working. Yeah, no more electric cord from my hubby’s wood shop!!! You can see the lights and fan working.

My pics are mostly taken at night, because that is when I get out back to work on the studio.

Below you can see, I got most of the floor painted on the north side of the Studio.

I mentioned before that I have been cleaning out the old art studio upstairs in the house and moving an armload of art supplies at a time down the stairs and piling it to go out. Figured there had to be a better way to get it all out there besides one armload at a time, so I borrowed my hubby’s new wheel barrow. Brought it to the front door, loaded it full and rolled it out back and unloaded. Great mode of transportation for moving art supplies out of the house. LOL

Took the doors off the cabinets on the south side and prepared to start painting the south back corner.

First coat of primer going on the walls on the south side. These cabinets are smaller than the ones on the north side.

As soon as I get the walls and cabinets painted on this side my hubby will build my counter top. This is going to be the hot side. My 4 kilns will go on this side. 2 small table top 110 kilns and 2 large 220 glass fusing and ceramic kilns.

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Posted on October 28, 2016October 28, 2016 by Christina — Leave a comment

Time off for Vacation

I have not posted in a couple of weeks. We took time off for Vacation. We went to South Carolina to see our Children. We had a very fun visit with our Son, Daughter in law, Daughter, Son in law and two of our grandsons. It was a nice relaxing week. Attended Fall for Greenville the Saturday before last, the annual Greenville food fest. Had a wonderful time.

Ate lots of wonderful cuisine, and walked and walked and walked through downtown Greenville. It is such a pretty city, so clean and neat, we just love it there.

Then on Sunday we drove to North Carolina and drove the Blue Ridge Parkway to see the Fall Foliage. It was so beautiful. I have always wanted to see it.

Check out these pics below:

Looking Glass Water Fall:

All good things must come to an end. We so enjoyed the rest and relaxation and the visit!!

Came back home and hit the ground running, playing catch up with work now and back to finishing up the new art studio. More pics to come on the studio.

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Christina — Leave a comment

New Art Studio, Update

Here is the next set of pics of the new Art Studio:

Exterior wall and window are in on the right side unit, or the south side. So studio is completely closed up now.

Photo of the window and wall from the inside looking out. Forgive the yard and the construction zone.

Started painting the floor on the left side or north side. I am really happy with the way the floor is coming out. The north half of the studio is almost done!!

Started painting the ceiling and walls of in the south side of the studio with the primer.

I really make a mess when I paint….lol. Been scraping paint off my hands, face and glasses for days. Ceilings really splatter when you paint them.

The electrician was working today on the lights, ceiling fans and outlets, this is the north side. Yeah!! Getting so excited!! I should have electricity connected soon!!!

And lights and fan on the south side. I just put a final coat of paint up where the lights and fan were going and will come back and finish the rest when all the primer is done.

I have been cleaning up the old studio up stairs, sorting stuff and getting preparing to move the work table and glass storage cabinet out to the new studio. Started taking small stuff out every trip outside, and putting it in the purple cabinets, such as beads and glass rods for bead making. I am moving out my glass band saw, glass grinder and two small table top 110 kilns. I have to clean off the work table and empty out the glass storage cabinet so I can move them out. Tons of work painting, and painting, and painting, and moving stuff, but will be so worth it when I get it done!!! The old studio upstairs inside the house will be turned into my fiber arts studio for sewing, yarn, spinning and weaving. All the glass work, fusing, bead making, torches, jewelry design will all be done outside in the new studio. I will also have room to teach classes again!!! Yeah!!!

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Posted on September 24, 2016September 24, 2016 by Christina — Leave a comment

New Art Studio Interior Is Coming Along

It’s time for another update on the progress of the interior of the new Art Studio. I have continued painting walls in between the contractor working.

The 4×4 frame work has been put up to case the 11 foot opening we cut between the two modular units.

The exterior wall frame work was built to frame up the window opening on the right side unit, which will close up the end wall.

And on the left side unit the exterior wall framing was built to hold the door and a window.

I am still painting walls, adding the finishing coats.

Yay!!! The door, a window and an A/C unit are in on the left side!!! It is now much cooler in there
doing my painting, even though I am still running an electric cord from Rick’s wood shop for power.

Here is a view of the door and window from the inside, still need the insulation and interior wall board hung, but it is progressing so nicely!!! It is all so very exciting!!

Posted on September 8, 2016September 8, 2016 by Christina — Leave a comment

New Art Studio, Interior Painting

Hi everyone. Hope you are having a great week. Thought you would like an update on the interior painting progress of my new Art Studio from last weekend. Hurricane Hermine set us back a bit. Several days of torrential rains prevented me from being able to get out into the back yard and get into the Studio. The backyard became a swamp of water. Thank the Lord we had nothing severe here, just tons and tons of rain and we were already waterlogged from a very wet summer. On Saturday I had to make myself a walkway to the Studio with some paver bricks so that I could get out there to paint without getting my feet wet. You can see in the pic the water is about ankle deep here near the Studio door, almost to the top of the bricks. Out towards the center of the back yard, to the right of the pic, it was almost a foot deep.

The back yard still has some standing water in it days later and is slowly drying out. We are one house off the river so we had to literally watch the creek behind the house and make sure it did not rise too high. Hubby put plastic and sand bags along the front edge of the house just in case. The Counties north of us got hit really hard. Lots of damage from high winds, trees falling on homes and cars, and lots and lots of flooded homes. So we are definitely counting our blessings.

I decided that painting the cabinets would be easier to do if I did them before Rick installs the sink and the counter top under them for me. I cleaned the cabinets and got the cabinet doors taken off them. These are the ones on the left hand side of the studio.

Doors set up and ready to paint the primer.

Two coats of primer painted on the doors. There are 5 cabinet doors on this side of the Studio.

I started putting the primer on the cabinet facings. I am leaving the insides of the cabinets white, so not putting any paint on them. Just painting everything that was pale pink previously.

Two coats of primer on all the facings.

And two coats of primer under the cabinet. They are ready for the new paint.

I am not going to tell you what color I am painting the cabinets, not just yet. You will have to wait for the big reveal!! LOL. Stay tuned for more updates to come.

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