John, my resident woodworker, was working on a remodel of our mudroom/laundry room beginning with a new bench (see post From the Woodshop: A New Bench and Beginning of the Mudroom Remodel ) but he is waiting on a new toy (a track saw) before he starts on the next part, the broom closet.
So he’s kept himself busy on the weekends instead with a couple projects for my quilting studio.
NEW EXTENSION TABLE
First he replaced the small plastic extension table with a pine slab on top that I was using next to my sewing/crafting table, with an actual table:
Here is Mike the Miniature Schnauzer checking out the new table:
The table has the schnauzer-stamp-of-approval!
Mike reviews the quality of John’s work (ha!) when he isn’t napping under the cutting table in the center of my studio:
Hopefully you can spot Mike somewhere in the schnauzer pillow…
MINI FRIDGE STAND
In the post The Horizontal Diaries, February 8, 2023, I shared that John had set up a breakfast station in the upstairs guest room when I was spend a lot of time resting (being “horizontal”) with my left leg elevated after breaking my ankle and having surgery.
Well I am spending less time horizontal these days and more time up and about; and I returned to coming downstairs for breakfast each morning. So we decided to move the small refrigerator (or “mini fridge”) out of the guest room and into my studio!
John built a stand for it and now I have a drink and tea area in my quilting studio:
I think John is encouraging me to spend as much time creating in the studio I can with beverages and snacks…
DECORATIVE STORAGE
When John was first teaching himself (via books and YouTube videos) on how to make drawers, he made a lot of practice boxes to start. He recently repurposed a couple of those practice boxes as some additional storage for my studio:
I think we’ve run out of projects for my studio for now, so John is probably going to return to making cutting boards (see post Never Bored When Making Boards (From the Woodshop) ) until his track saw shows up!
tierneycreates 
Oh my, you really have the dream room with the addition of the mini fridge and tea station…now you really don’t ever have to leave! Enjoy!
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Thank you, it is a nice place to create 🙂
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I spy the Bubly (my fav is whitepeach ginger) and that case of 2018 Chardonnay – was it good?
Glad to hear you’re getting more vertical these days.
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I do love that beverage! It helped me get away from sugared carbonated drinks. Sorry I did not have the pleasure of drinking any of the wine from the wine crates – we got them empty from a liquor outlet shop!
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Awesome room! I have the same Bernina!
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Thank you! It is my little retreat 🙂
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What a great studio! You have some wonderful storage there and Mike has the cutest bed 🙂 I love your snack and drink area – you can really spend whole days in there just creating 🙂
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Thanks so much I am pretty happy with it! I did however have a little fridge disaster when my beverages all froze because it was set too high – ha!
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Oh no! Hope everything is settled back down 🙂
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OK, for a minute I thought the dog Mike is sitting on was his “dog bed”. Yikes! Instead there are two dogs on the bed…the mind spins : )
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Ha! Mike does love his dog Dog Bed 🙂
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I think you must have the best equipped studio in the world. John is a star!
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Thanks so much, I think enhancing my studio is one of John’s secret hobbies, ha!
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wow
I do have access to the fridge here but that’s because I’m a hop, skip and jump from either the “new floor workspace or the paint room” and it’s known as the kitchen so there is a lot of other things nearby that are both edible and drinkable…
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Until we downsize someday to a more reasonable sized place, I have my kitchen soooo far away so it helps – ha!
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