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| New Sewing Room |
 Added 2/5/07: I've
been decorating
with apron pattern pictures..
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Before
You can see some additional 'before' pictures at my
old sewing room page.
In the picture below you can see a picture of one end
of the room and a close-up of the room floor. It had
this fantastically ugly vinyl tile that I believe dated
from the 60's. It was hideous. About half the floor
was covered with an ancient blue/gray industrial carpet
that was showing canvas in some spots. Basically a depressing
scenario.
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During
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Here is my husband installing a new door. There was quite a
lot of rot around the old one and the sill had to be
rebuilt. Notice the black mold in the right corner.
We had a yard-runnoff drainage problem fixed a few years
back, so this shouldn't happen again.
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Here he proudly displays the new door. It has in-window
blinds, which I love. |
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Below is a picture of the room in general disarray. This is
after we peeled up the vinyl tiles and had moved out most of
the stuff.
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These are the colors I'm using
in the new room. Behr has a nice selection of color combinations.
I was tending towards painting the walls gray, and this
"Smoked Oyster" is a really pleasant lavendery-gray.
We used Popped Corn for the trim as show in the picture. |
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Here's the room after painting, but before the new floor was
put in.
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We're installing wood-pattern sheet vinyl in the room.
Its quicker and cheaper than wood, and vinyl is a good
choice for sewing rooms. I thought everyone would get
a kick out of my vinyl-installation method. I use paper
and packing tape to make a pattern of the floor. I used
about 250 feet of paper. Its great because I can make
(and repair) mistakes on the pattern long before the vinyl
gets cut. Once I have a perfect pattern, down to the details
around the door molding, I lay the pattern on the vinyl
and cut it out using a fresh craft knife. I'm cutting
it on the driveway as its the only flat spot large enough
for the 12x22 foot sheet.
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Here's a shot of the room after the vinyl is installed.
This shot shows a fairly accurate view of the paint color
(at least on my monitor it does). It looks more lavender
in some lights and more grayish in others.
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I thought I'd show close-ups of the changes in the "moldy
corner".
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Here's before (but after we ripped the old flooring out).
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Here's after its all complete. Looks pretty gorgeous to
me. :)
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After
| Before we began work I modeled the room in Sierra Home
Architect. I used it to figure out how I wanted the room
arranged for maximum functionality and storage, while
maintaining a roomy feel. I found this really helpful
to visualize what I wanted. So below I've included both
actual after pictures and 3-D rendered pictures of my
design. The room is not finished as you can see from the
pictures, but having the virtual pictures helps me stay
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These following two pictures show the view to the right as you enter
the room from the kitchen. This is where my built-in work
surface and storage will go. I won't normally have computers
here. :) The room is definitely not together yet. At this
point I am still moving things back in, and my husband has not
yet built my work surface and shelving. |
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The rendering below shows the view to the right as it will look when complete. The built-in L-shaped cutting and activity
center that my husband is going to build. The far wall has a
40" deep surface that extends the full width of
that wall (roughly 9.5 feet). I'll have a my 72"
x 40" cutting mat there, which I've represented
with a stretched out chess board in the simulation.
Hey, what can I say they didn't have a cutting board
object in Home Architect. :)
The table will wrap around the wall to the right, where
the surface will only be 20" deep. The whole area
will have wall shelves or cabinets above the surface.
My sewing machine and serger tables will be in another
L shape completing my "sewing cube". |
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Here's the view to the left as you enter the room. This
is my office area and will include my desk, computer and
most of the books. |
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This view is straight ahead as you enter the room.
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This is an aerial view of the room and is the primary working
view when you're building things in Sierra Home Architect.
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Decorating
| I have been collecting old apron patterns for many years;
particularly from the 40's and 50's. The cover illustrations
on the patterns are so charming. I knew that one day I
wanted them decorating the wall of my sewing room, so
I've also been gradually collecting 8" x 10"picture
frames from thrift stores. A few weeks ago I primed and
painted the frames in one of the coordinating colors for
my room. Then hung the picture in the frames on the main
empty wall of the room. I am just delighted with them.
I'd still like to get 4 or 5 more pictures up, so I need
to start haunting the thrift stores again. |
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| Below is a close up of some of the pictures. These are
not the actual pattern covers. Most of the covers are
quite delicate and very discolored. So I scanned the covers
and used Photoshop to clean up the pictures, mostly removing
discoloration and tears. I've prepared a photo
gallery of the apron pattern images. Most are post-cleanup,
but for a few of them I've shown the before and after
versions. You can click on the thumbnails to get a larger
picture, and click on the larger picture to get a full-size,
high-resolution version suitable for printing. The high-resolution
pictures run 1 to 2 megabytes. |
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