Studio Makeover Part 1

Remember this?

My art room is all of it's glorious mayhem.

 I sat on Santa's lap, told him I'd been a good girl & asked for a makeover.  My studio is actually our dining room, and it's the first thing you see coming in the front door.  We plan on selling in the next year or two so I was somewhat limited in the changes I made. 

First thing we (AKA Kevin) did, was to scrape popcorn off the ceiling,  (every room in the house is done now) then retexture & paint.  I wanted a neutral color that we could use throughout the house. I chose Eddie Bauer 'Wicker', it looks great with the white trim & plantation shutters.  Finally, a new light fixture.

This is what it looked like for a week. 

Now that the grunt work was done it was time to go shopping!

Six hours later, we were ready to go home & assemble.

After days of editing, donating & organizing, I've come to believe...I have a lot of stuff!  Notice I didn't say 'too much stuff' , cuz it's never enough!

This is my art table, my favorite thing in the room & defiantly the most useful.  Kevin found it for me at a consignment store in Grapevine.  I think it may have been from a school, possibly an art or sewing classroom.  There are 4 work stations & 24 drawers! I've never seen one like it.
At one time I had cute tags identifying the contents of each drawer. One by one they were pulled off by the kids, so now I just kind of have it all memorized.

Speaking of storage, these window frame boxes from Ikea are so cool, no need to label.

The small windows above the shutters have always been a decorating challenge for me, I have a big collection of oval frames so I decided to put them to work. I wanted to put something up there with them, I'm trying out the hydrangea's , it's still a work in progress. If anyone has any ideas...hint, hint.

I have much more to share, so stayed tuned!