Come spring we will swap our current heating system into a new one which is quite an investment but which will save us money in the long run. The new system requires much less space and the best part is it can be moved completely into a different location than the one we have now.
This little wall is now gone
When I heard this my mind went racing, What to use the new old space for when the heater is gone? A sewing space for yours truly of course! Today I keep the sewing machine and supplies in the boat room and bring everything upstairs to the dining table but this means I can have a permanent space for it. Yay!
These shelves are gone
Of course I couldn't wait until spring, I had to start immediately. Parts can be done already and others need to wait. What can be done is to transform the storage area behind the ironing board into a desk area which is what I've been working on this weekend.
I've removed the little walls, removed cut tiles where the walls were and replaced them with full sized ones. Spackled the walls and have will start touching up the paint tonight. The dirty mustard color you see is the color the whole basement was in before I painted it white. Yuck. With burgundy trim and doors. Double yuck.
The desk needs to sit at a weird height due to pipes along the wall so I've decided to use a stool which can be swiveled to the right height and add a podium on the floor so I can reach the sewing machine pedal. The desk top is an old hollow core door from IKEA which I will need to sort out at one or both ends because it's a little short. Will come up with some solution for that I'm sure. The desk top will rest on 2x2's affixed to the walls which means there are no legs. Easy to keep the floor clean and makes the space feel larger. I'm going to add a cushion to the stool so don't worry about my behind.
I can't do the other side of the room yet because where the heater is today we replace it with a dryer and next to the dryer a small drying rack. Need to wait for the dryer to be in situ until I can remove the washing lines and until the washing lines are gone I can't add the blue metal cabinet I want to store my fabrics in. At least I don't think I can. Hmmm. Maybe I'll figure out a different solution for hanging the laundry until spring so I can bring the cabinet into there already now.
I'm so impatient. Everything immediately is what I want.
