And Sew Forth: The Continuing Saga of the Making of a Sewing Room

Perhaps some Before and After shots would be in order. In the last post - And Sew On - I included photos of my sewing room from the Concrete Block Age, through to the Plywood Era. In this next segment, I will include pics from both those 'eras' through to the current look of my sewing room. Here we go.....

Looking North: my sewing room shortly after the walls were covered and the washer and dryer hidden by a partition. The shelving units faced toward the room, back then.

I eventually reoriented the book cases so that the shelves faced that north wall. I covered the once-fronts of the shelves with a board and covered the boards with fabric as a sort of design board. The new ceiling made the room look more polished. The new fluorescent lights provide a lot of light - 28 feet of fluorescence. The tables are covered with black and white floor tiles. The half wall to the right in this picture, above, is now covered with barn wood. I never did much like the orangey tones - seem om the former photo.

This shot, above, shows the sewing room after I put old barn wood on the bottom half of the walls in the main part of the room. The watermelon green paint remained on the walls at the ends of the room, however, later to be covered with taupe paint (just recently, early 2013). Above the wood I wallpapered bible pages and old photographs left over from another project.

This is a more recent shot (above, March 2013). The curtain has changed. the one hanging as a divider between the main room and the storage area behind the shelving units.

The air mattress under the old ping pong table is used when our granddaughters spend the night.

The older wall treatment - green walls with photographic trim - is seen in the photo above. 

March 2013: The room has been cleared in preparation for painting the floor in the basement. The green wall will not survive this latest remodel: I covered it with taupe paint.

Above: Before

After....

New floor color

Looking from the office area in the sewing room into the ping pong room

Beyond the beaded curtain is my sewing room.

Another Before shot - still looking north

And an After shot of the same area

The washer and dryer and water softener, etc, behind their barn wood partition.


Office area - barn wood partition wall hides water softener
'Watermelon wall' will soon be beige

The same area after the March 2013 painting frenzy! Notice the green wall is now beige, in the office area, to the right in this shot. I also covered the green that covered the wall behind the appliances.

The storage area behind the bookcases, at the north end of my sewing room

Before shot of sewing room, looking south, toward appliances and office area and doorway to ping pong room  (Spring 2005)

After shot of same area

During the painting of the basement floor

Before shot: Washer and dryer area to the right

Washer and dryer area now (March 2013)

Before shot, looking south

After shot, looking south

The End (Yeh, right.)

To see even more (older) pics of sewing room make-over, click on this link: 

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And another thing: We recently wall-papered the walls in the sewing room, AND added Formica to the top of the old ping pong table....

Sorry about the mess; this table redo is a work in progress. The old yard sticks will be tacked around the edge of the table, to finish the edge and to be used for measuring as I sew.