STUDIO CABINETS DONE! PRETTY MUCH!

Darrell installed the last two huge drawers on the bottom this morning. That means the studio cabinets on the south wall are pretty much done. I just have to put some touch-up paint on the front of the drawers where he put the screws in the drawer fronts. [you can see the fuzzy white patches in the pictures] I still need to put labels in all of the flat file drawers.

Here's the big 'pencil drawers' at the top, they are wide and deep.

And look at these huge drawers on the bottom. This one that is open has the bars for hanging files. There are slots for either letter size or legal-size depending on my needs. I think I will be storing my editioned prints and probably photos and drawings. The drawer next to it is just a big empty drawer about 11" deep 24" wide and 40" deep. That's where we'll hide the body.

STUDIO CABINETS

My husband Darrell and I spent the weekend working on the cabinets for the south wall of my upstairs studio.

I first had to go through and move everything out of the way. I put all the junk from that end at the other end. I packed up my painting stuff and moved it. The studio is a mess! I can't believe all the 'junk' I have.

I need to re-think where I keep everything and what configuration would work best.

I've been using the above white set of flat files, they were on the other side of the room. But I found that a lot of the paper I buy wouldn't fit in it, so I recently purchased a larger flat file. I wanted them built into the cabinets. So, I took them apart and cleaned them and sanded them and primed the outside front. That's them, in dark red, now set in place in the cabinets. Eventually they will be the same color as the cabinets, a muddy clay brown color. In the blank spots above and below the built-in flat files will be drawers. As you can see we stopped before the doors, drawers or top were made. Hopefully, it won't be too much longer before Darrell can get to them. In the meantime, I can be painting what is there. I also plan to strip down the white flat files and paint them the same brown color.

Over to the right is Lucy-dog in her little bed. [She's all tuckered out from all the hard work this weekend.]

And lastly I'd like to say that I am so fortunate to have such a generous and talented husband [who just happens to have a woodshop below my studio!] Thank you Darrell.