My new studio revealed!

Friday! Gosh, doesn't the week go quickly. Friday.......... (Please let this weekend be a weekend of gentle relaxation)............. we haven't finished hanging the quilts yet, so I'm very sorry, but I don't have any photos of the newly decorated bedroom for you. I promise, promise, promise I will put up photos for you on Monday afternoon. (Because I'm now putting up my blog in the afternoons, about four, or five-ish, more like five-ish, U.K. time. It's so it feels more real, and more enjoyable for me to write my day-to-day. Rather than what was beginning to feel like a series of essays, which I'd write the night before, and publish the following morning). So I thought I'd substitute pictures of the bedroom, with photos of my studio, which I should have really shown you a while a go. I kept on telling myself, as it wasn't quite finished, I couldn't show it, because I wanted it to look like one of those perfect studios you see on well known blogs. This is the view from the door to my studio. I have to sheepishly admit, I did have a tidy before taking these photos, and a small amount of 'arranging' went on too! Yep, it's about as tidy as it's ever going to be at this moment in time! It's a lot easier to keep tidy than my old studio, which I miss only a tiny bit. I love my new studio though. Those pink walls! I step inside, and the effect of the colour is "JOY"! I'm going to take you on a 360 degree tour of the room now................ So, in the above photo we are standing in the doorway, looking in towards the left of the room. I'm now going to carry on taking you in an anti-clockwise spin. Moving on round to my desk.............. ............. My desk........... the window............. My desk and the plan chests in the background. It is nice to have the plan chests in my studio. They didn't fit in my old work space, so whenever I needed a sheet of paper or whatever, I would have to fetch it from indoors, which isn't ideal in the pouring rain. And glancing down to the floor, (breaking out of the 360 degree tour slightly), is a teeny tiny, itsy bitsy doggy. Douglas. He's always with me in the studio, Ellie, being the independent, fiesty little madam that she is, is usually somewhere else. Douglas is in his brand new polka dot bed. He had a really good long investigative sniff of it before he clambered in, very thorough he was. I wondered what on earth could be so fascinating in a new bed. And on we spin, past the plan chests, round to the door. Oh look, there's all the stuff I dumped in the corridor to make my studio look tidy for the photographs, you can see through the doorway, not very good 'styling' that, is it?! We're coming to the part of the room where all the arranging took place. It's not quite finished, because I have stuff in boxes, waiting to be re-discovered. Maybe I should re-phrase that, I have more clutter waiting to clutter up my work space. That shelving on wheels you can see in the above photo, it used to be brown. Brown didn't look right with the new look studio. So I went for bright turquoise, which felt a little frightening at the time. I even went through a "I don't know" stage............ But with things on it, and the shelves filled, the colour isn't so intimidating, it's gorgeous, (to me anyway!). Some of the furniture in the above photo was in my old studio, some is newly acquired. Like the trolley with the Cath Kidston bag sitting on it. (My prize bag. A Birthday gift from my very generous sister). The trolley.......... well, that was a sale item from Ikea, once brown, now painted a blue colour. And the pink cabinet resting on the green cupboard? £45 from and antiques shop on our trip to North Yorkshire last month. I thought it was a good buy, and I didn't have to paint it, and I luv it............ My precious Cath Kidston bag is also doing a reasonably good job of hiding the ugly photocopier............... We're almost full circle............ Full circle! So there you go! The new studio on display! I hope you enjoyed the tour? Now for the weekend, which, in my head, I imagine is going to be relaxing and craft orientated. That's what I'm imagining. Whether or not it actually happens is yet to be discovered............. Have a wonderful weekend, and see you on Monday with pictures of the finished bedroom! Love Vanessa xxx

Comments

[LittleGem]

Beautiful! Cant wait to see the finished bedroom too! I love all the pastely colours you've used for all the furniture. I would love a work room like this - sadly I only have a kitchen table to work on!! XX

[Lyn]

I keep dreaming of having a studio like yours! it's lovely and so creative, I bet you are buzzing in there!
Love
Lyn
xxx

[emma]

Hi Vanessa I am really enjoying your blog at the moment. It is always great but seems to be extra good at the mo! What turquoise blue paint did you use for the lovely cupboard. Everything looks so good. You are very clever. The garden looks fab too in your previous post.

have a happy weekend!

love Emma xxxxx

[The Antidote]

What a beautiful inspiring place to work. Your use of colours is glorious and it all works so well together.
Love the blog x

[Jennyff]

How grown up to have a studio, and yours is a lovely space to work in. My favourite pieces are the plan chest and Douglas

[Hen]

Oh, it's too lovely for words. So pinkily pink, what could be better, and with turquoise too, my second fave colour by a snippet! It's impressive you've managed to make all the different bits and pieces go together well yet it looks very original, very you. I think there's nothing worse than a room that looks like the whole lot has come from the same shop (however nice the shop). I'm rambling... Anyway, it's gorgeous, I'm sure you'll feel very inspired to create. Douglas is too cute!
Hen x

[joanna]

You should enter it for that american Studios magazine. It looks so lovely.

[cathleen]

It's absolutely charming, Vanessa. A room totally full of eye candy that I just keep wanting to stare at. I adore all the pink! You did a great job!

[Helen Lambert]

It's lovely Vanessa, I am desperate for shelving in my work room so I am green with envy ...I would love a good old snoop through your book shelf ....have a lovely weekend...H

[Frogdancer]

I wish I had a space like that....

[Lucille]

Fabulous. But hello, excuse me, what about the humungous, bouquet of flowers on the plan chest which you silently scooted past -are they silk? Plastic? Real? All of the above?

[Cat]

Oh, I am just so very green with envy. What a wonderful space. Have a lovely weekend. Cat xxx

[Lisa]

Vanessa:

Everything looks stunning. I am impressed and I don't mind telling you, a wee bit jealous.

So pretty, enjoy it!

Lisa xo

[kat]

very nice, and so cheerful

[driftwood]

I love it, all of it, but I have to say my favourite bit might be the display of sugar mice in the dresser xxx

[Lesley]

gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous as i totally expected it to be :-)
the mix of colours looks fab it must be such a nice place to spend time I dont think i would ever come out :-D
Lesley x

[Pipany]

Oh my God Vanessa, its gorgeous! I feel the need to race to my sewing room and revamp! Have a lovely, lovely weekend xx

[Helen Charlton]

Oh that's just gorgeous!!

[Julie]

It's gorgeous. Pink and Turquoise is my favourite colour combination. And I love your dresser too.

Having serious room envy here. Have a great weekend - hope it pans out just as you want it to. x

[Denise]

Oh Vanessa, it is absolutely gorgeous you must feel like the cat who got the cream, I would so love a space like it. Enjoy it and I hope you get lots of creative vibes in such an inspiring room.
Have a great crafting weekend. I will look forward to your bedroom reveal on Monday.xx
Yes, the boys are all mine.

[Elizabeth]

Love your new studio. The pink color is very happy. I am sure you will enjoy every minute you get to spend there. Can I come over and craft!? Have a great day! Liz

[susand]

OOOHHH! I'm so jealous!!! Great space!
I'm loving that pink!!!! =)

[A Thrifty Mrs]

It is so utterly beautiful. You have tied so many pretty things together to create a fantastic studio!
Gorgeous.
x

[Laura]

I love the pink walls - that's a great idea, and it so beautifully sets off the greens and blues of the furniture. It's a lovely studio!

[charlie]

Um, ditto to all of the above!
Belissima, beautiful, am very envious!
Also curious too about the HUGE bunch of flowers! xx

[Bobo Bun]

Wow. Love the mix of colour. You are so lucky to have a room all of your own, it looks heavenly.

Lisa x

[graceful mice and gentle moons]

Your studio is Amazing!!!
I Love the colours sooooo much!
I'm a big fan of Molly Brett too.
Ooooh Vanessa it really, really is lovely. I am going to have another look, infact I think I will keep coming back for peeks.
x
Sumea