I painted my cabinet/bookshelf with a final coat of paint, but thought another picture of it was too boring…
I touched up a few more spots with paint in my room again, but that was too hard to show, and boring too…
I made my hubby a new bandana face mask right there with my sewing machine sitting on the dining room table in the middle of every kind of tool and sanding block and wood pieces. My hubby wasn’t game on having his picture taken with his new mask on, so no picture there…
Kristoffer came over and asked if I could give him a haircut…Shhhh!!! Don’t tell anyone Jeanne’s Salon is open for business! …better not show a picture of my client…
So I’ll show you what Cindy and I worked on…when she walked in my house, the first thing she said was, “It’s so bright in your room!!” And she is right…I can hardly believe how different it looks in there.
Cindy surveyed my furniture pieces and I could see the wheels turning in her head. The next thing I knew we were pushing and pulling pieces to different places in the room. She thought it would be nice when you walked in my front door and then into my sewing room, if your eye saw the same color of furniture all together…
We decided it would be nice for the white furniture to be on the back wall…my big bookshelf will cover the door..(sorry Joy, I need the space for furniture more than I need a door that I’ll never use.) I know the looks of it and the light coming in would be pretty, but I just need that for a workable wall. Maybe sometime in the future, I can downsize my inventory and uncover that door.
So the big bookshelf will be on the left, my armoire will be in the middle and the dresser will be on the right. There is enough of a space on the right that my steamer can be rolled there.
My bookshelf is still in the back of the house, as I’m painting it, but here is what it will sort of look like this…
The slanted corner that we opened up by taking down that 2×4 is spacious enough to hold the bookshelf that will probably hold my dolls. There is plenty of room to possibly put the matching bookshelf on the other wall. They would touch corners and meet at a 90 degree angle…
Here is a good picture of the built in shelves…there was so much stuff in my room, I haven’t been able to get a good shot of them till now.
The oak bookcase I had beside my sewing machines will probably stay on that wall but I’m thinking of losing the glassed in stacked cabinet. It holds many of my props so I’d have to find a new home for them…
When you first walk into my sewing room, it will be nice to open my door ALL the way, and then I will have my oak furniture on the left wall…first my oak bookshelf since it’s the more narrow of the pieces and then my dresser with all the drawers…I think I’m going to pass on the fold down cutting table and just cut things out on my white dresser…
I will probably have to put my Dressmaker sign on top of this oak bookshelf because my white bookshelf is too tall for it to go up there.
As I looked at my new room taking shape, I was overwhelmed and so grateful that I have my very own space to create in. Sewing on my dining room table in my little bitty area I carved out, made me realize there are many ladies who have to set up their machine every time they want to sew. I am very blessed!!
I’ll be anxious to sew as soon as I can…thank you for tagging along with me on this project.
Have a wonderful weekend! I plan to!!
Since Cindy and Deb are staying till Monday, I’ll see you TUESDAY!
Blessings, Jeanne
Your sewing room is coming along nicely, Jeanne. It always helps to get another person’s opinion about furniture arrangements, etc., doesn’t it?! See things thru another’s eyes, so to speak.
Yes, I am fortunate to have my own sewing room, too (although it’s quite a mess at the moment–but I don’t know that it is Ever in very good order–I just happen to be one of those people who needs to have everything out where I can see it, or I forget I have it! LOL). Maybe some day I can do some rearranging in there, but I don’t have any sisters who can help me with that–and I don’t think I’d ask for my brother’s opinion!! LOL
I hope you and your sisters have a wonderful, long weekend together!! You have earned it!
I see that you have been “doing things”, even though you aren’t showing them! We quite understand, Jeanne! I don’t know how many of us would have a blog writing about our day and have it be very exciting! I know mine would put everyone to sleep!
That is a good idea to keep all the white furniture together, and the oak also. Otherwise it would look like a checkerboard! It certainly is nice to have Cindy’s expertise, and she certainly lives up to it!
You certainly have earned a nice, four day holiday, and here’s wishing you a “Happy Memorial Day”, and to all the ladies here too!
Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy this time with your family, Jeanne. How lovely that you can all be together at this time and no doubt find time to do other things besides work on your sewing room, which is looking very nice.
Blessings.
Well, if you can’t have a door to the outside, you have a lovely door inside. I really like the glass door from the living room without any covering. It is a lovely accent. 🙂 And Cindy’s idea of grouping like furniture colors is perfection. Squaring up that back old closet corner with the two shelving units should make them both accessible. Or so I think. I like the little prop cabinet that shows the cute things peeking out. Maybe if it were painted white and the handle on the bottom moved to the top, it would fit in and shrink away but still show those cute things?? If you can part with that old dark dresser with the drawers, it would fit on the wall next to the lovely oak bookcase with the fabric and be another showpiece. 🙂 Or maybe painted that pretty blue like your other cabinet with the doors, and I think it had white flowers? I still think I’d like to see the dolls on one shelf in that built in end cabinet since it is so prominent. Absolutely can’t wait to see how everything looks rearranged. The space is going to be a sewers dream. Hope your weekend is filled with fun.
It’s going to all look so nice!
Everyone have a good long weekend! 🇺🇸
Joy said maybe the prop cabinet could be white. I was thinking the same thing. It’s such a nice piece,
Dear Jeanne, I am so happy that you will be having sister time this weekend. Enjoy every moment!
What a wonderful transformation! So glad you’ll have it all finished before June. All white would have looked clinical, So the wood-grained pieces will look great. I know you and your sisters always have such a wonderful time together. You are truly blessed ❤️❤️❤️.
It must be really exciting to be able to configure a room to your liking and your sewing room is going to be a lot of fun to create in when you are finished. My sewing room is pretty much what it is. Any reorganization comes from relocating items from one place to another. But the room has a big picture window and lots of light and the cabinets my hubby made that line one wall are white so I’m okay with it as it is.
Being someone who has lived all my life no matter where in a situation where there is not much choice for decorating, I never got too well versed at decorating but I’m good at reusing stuff. When I was growing up we didn’t have much money for furniture but my father was a carpenter so he built in the furniture in my sister’s and my bedroom. I always wanted a canopy bed so I wasn’t majorly on board with this, but we had tons of drawers and a skirt cabinet with a row of drawers for our sweaters, and we had a built in desk with a dad-made pencil trough. But it was what it was and could not be rearranged. Someone gave my mother a pink chenille bedspread which she cut in half. Half went on my bed and half on my sisters, so we weren’t able to get one of those pretty bedspreads I longed for. We didn’t live during the Depression but we still lived by “use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without”. I still do that today. When I redid my bedroom a few years ago the comforter, dust ruffle, curtains and shams still had a lot of life in them so I took the bed from my daughter’s old room, which was part of a set of bunkbeds, and put the “headboards” on each end and turned it into a daybed for my study. I put the bedding from the old room on that. Since my bedroom has four windows and my study has a picture window on both sides, I had enough curtains for the room without having to buy anything. The queen-size bed in my daughter’s old room (now the guest room) is a frame with an air mattress on it. I got that idea from HGTV when they were staging a house and needed to show off another bedroom. Any that have slept in there like the idea of an air bed. I have a Sleep Number bed and really like it but sure couldn’t afford one for the guest room. The giuest bed is comfortable and if I want to take it out of the room, it is much easier to remove than my Sleep Number. The dressers in the guest room are from my daughter’s old bedroom set and a hand me down dresser from my in-laws. Hubby and I still have the original bedroom set we bought after our marriage 40 years ago. I still like it as much as when we bought it. It’s timeless. David still has hopes of moving to Colorado some day and says when we do we’ll just sell what we have here and buy all new there. That’s been the plan for about ten years now. I’ve resigned myself pretty much to accepting what I have until that day should it become a reality.
Hope everyone is having a good Memorial Weekend. I just found out that our city swimming pool and splash pad are closed for the foreseeable future. It’s so hot here that going to the pool is the only way to get outside and be the least bit comfortable. The splash pad is in the park and is free so it’s the best solution for getting children out when you can’t afford to go to the pool. Being out in the sunshine seems to me to be one of the best things you can do today, but even though we’ve had only 20 cases here, most have recovered and no deaths and the pool is never crowded, it may not open this summer. These days I feel like I’m living in Cromwell’s England and it’s better here than a lot of places.
The room is looking so fresh and and brand new. Even though you’ll be covering up the outside door, why not paint it white like all the other woodwork? And the built in bookshelf in front of the basement stairway, why not have hubby cut out a wooden valance (like over kitchen sinks) to make it look like a regular bookcase. Like some of your other bookcases. Doesn’t have to be,thick, like 3/8 or 1/2 inch. Enjoy sister/family weekend.
I like that bookshelf idea too. 🙂
Your new sewing room is awesome, and so bright..
Have a great weekend with your family.
Judi Kaye
Oh Jeanne your sewing studio looks so fresh and bright. It’s come together so nicely. I’m so happy for you. Enjoy your visit with your sister and brother in-law. Prayers and best wishes to George as he has his surgery.
Hugs
Ingrid
Jeanne, how lovely and fresh your room is becoming! You will enjoy creating in there before you know it. And yes, how blessed are we who are able to have our own rooms in which to do as we please? I have an office/doll room in a former bedroom, and it is heavenly (when it is clean and tidy). Enjoy your sister time!