We officially have a studio space in our home!
Ahhh I never thought I would be able to say that, especially since this is our first starter home and we have limited space. For a few moths last year I utilized our dinning room as a make shift studio, and for a good part of the year we had out table and chairs broken down and stored in a closet. I soon realized that wasn't going to be sustainable and decided it was time to make some tough choices. I loved how my office was set up, I also run a small shop selling hairbows and I had created a great space with multiple work stations. There were plants on every wall and it was the perfect place for me to spend my days working. What it offers best though is the INCREDIBLE natural light that comes from the large window. I knew that would be the most ideal room to set up as a studio. After weighing my pros and con list I decided to pull the trigger and start the process.
The first large thing to tackle was pulling everything out of the closet in that room and start going through to reorganize how everything was stored. My secret talent is being able to fit alot of things in to small spaces so I managed to get most everything that set out in the room stored away into the closet. The next item on the list was to make my desks mobile. I work from home during my 9-5 job and that requires a desk with multiple monitors, I also needed to keep a desk to work on tasks for my bow shop. I was able to find one of the viral sit stand desks on amazon that came with wheels. That became my regular work desk since I didn't want to be picking up the monitors every time I needed to turn the space from an office to studio. I decided to keep my current Alex drawers from Ikea and purchased castor wheels to attach to the bottom. This allowed my bow desk to become mobile since the top piece wasn't attached down and it made the moving process easy. After figuring out the logistics of those two items my next focus was on the flooring.
While all studio spaces are different I have always been drawn to ones with light hard flooring, so I knew the carpet was not going to be an option. Ultimately we decided that the carpet needed to stay due to us not knowing how long we would be in this house, and also that we didn't have the budget to redo the flooring everywhere to make sure it matched. I looked into getting rubber matts that had the appearance of hardwood floor, vinyl backdrops with wood planks, and even the large sheets of bead board, but none of it seemed like it would serve me longterm for how we needed to use the space. After searching multiple things online I discovered that it was possible to lay plywood down onto the carpet and then add flooring on top! I was elated and after watching a couple videos on the process we jumped into the car and headed to Home Depot.
We purchased 3 sheets of plywood and had them cut down evenly to sit vertical in the room