Sew Distracted

New Cutting Room Part 2

This was originally posted on August 23rd on the blog restingmotion.

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We literally just got the last cabinet completed and all the pieces together for the cutting table:

I am just thrilled by the fact that it looks so good and I have more room to move around than I thought. You can see the Billy Bookcases along the back wall, partially filled with fabric.  There will be another bookcase where the ladder is standing now: it is scheduled to be delivered the end of next week. In front of the bookcases you see one end of my humongous new cutting table.  The materials for finishing the top won't arrive until next week either, so you can read more about that in another post.

Here is a view from the end of the room:

The table base is basically made from 3 components, all of which I got from Homedecorators.com:

    2 Martha Stewart Craft Space Flat File cabinets along the front side (because it faces the door).

    1 Stanton 6+1 drawer wide storage cart which occupies the space between the two cabinets

     3 Supreme 3 tier metal shelving units side-by-side along the back.

 

The larger lower drawer of the stanton unit holds my hams and most of my bulky pressing tools and it is convenient since it stands opposite my ironing board and press, of which you can see just a tiny bit on the left side of the photo above).

Here is a partial view of the cabinets side by side from the door:

The whites are not quite the same, which I knew when I ordered them, but I figured it wouldn't matter that much and it is much less evident IRL than in this photo, either that or I just don't notice, which may also be true.  All of the cabinets from Home Decorators were supposed to be 36" high, except for the Stanton unit which is 35 1/2, but that wasn't the case. The cabinets ranged from 35 1/2 to 36 1/2 high, so there was a bit more shopping and cutting and gluing involved than originally planned, but it all works and I am happy.  

 

It will be even better when the top is finished.  But in the meantime I have a lot of unpacking and planning to do.

New Sewing Space -- Cutting Room Post 1

In anticipation of reactivating this blog, I am double-posting.  This post also appears on Restingmotion.

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The first four of five Billy Bookcases are up.  Only one top extension is in place, and the doors are not on it yet, but I have started moving fabric into the lower cabinets.   The fifth cabinet was damaged in shipping and I have to send the damaged parts list to Ikea as soon as the top extensions are finished. 

 

I can't claim any responsibility for the results so far other than buying the cabinets and helping lug them up the stairs.  I am grateful to know a couple of good handymen and am very happy that A has taken on this job since I know I would be nowhere near this far along were I attempting it myself, and I would probably be lying on the floor with my feet up on the sofa feeling stiff, sore, and frustrated, and too tired to unpack fabric.

 

My only other responsibility so far, other than moving tons of stuff around and helping carry, has been to crawl around the garage floor while I glued large pieces of plywood together, and haul more heavy stuff around to weight the pieces, in order to make the 42" x 108" (3 1/2' x 9') top of the future cutting table.  

Seeing the assembled slab of plywood lying on the floor, although not in its final place, I see that although the cutting table will dominate the room, I will have room to work around it, and I am happy at that thought. Only half of the base cabinets have arrived, and two of them are awaiting assembly.  The final cabinets should arrive this week, and the materials for finishing the top probably this coming week or early the following week.

 

I probably won't get more fabric moved today as I'm hosting a dinner party this evening.  But I can go upstairs and sigh occasionally, and dream of the space to come.