Another busy but exciting year ahead ...... my card making has started to take over our home so it was decided to change a bedroom into a dining/crafting room. Where the window is at the moment will become patio doors leading onto a conservatory adding space and light to what is at the moment quite a small room. There will also be a futon bed in the conservatory..... our grandchildren are already looking forward to sleeping in there.
Our intentions are to build cupboards and a dresser/book shelves along the left side of the room. These will house my crafting materials etc.,. We were quite restricted when choosing the dining room furniture. However we have bought one the size we need that we can adapt to the style we required IE:- by changing the legs and part changing it's colour.....as I go along I will be blogging the changes.
My husband also has both many crafting and artistic skills/hobbies so as you can imagine we need all the storage and working space we can spare without it taking over our home. As well as not being visible when we are not crafting.... The loft bedroom doubles for his crafting room.
Here are photo's of how I store my materials at present and how when I card make in the living room it takes over.
As you can see the porch we have added to the side of the bungalow is almost complete. We also have stacks of bricks in both front and back gardens ready for the conservatory and also to build a separate housing for the bins. We have been fortunate as neighbours have had new walls built. The bricks from the old walls match the bricks of our bungalow, this has saved both time looking for them as well as the cost of buying them.
Our back garden is to be re-vamped, the sheds are to go and in there place will be a patio. At the top of the garden next to the potting shed will be a summer house and a workshop for my husband. The remainder of the garden will become minimal maintenance with open decking and will include re-vamp of Jades garden.
Once complete!!!! our final work will be the front drive/lawn and side garden.
I am looking forward to blogging each stage as it happens.
Quote for today:-
"You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind"
Author unknown.
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