MystressMyrrh
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Feb 21, 2005, 10:22 AM
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If you could design a beading workroom, and $$ was no object
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If you could design a beading workroom, and $$ was no object, what would it look like? What type of materials would you stock it with?
My ideal bead workroom would be a 3-bedroom house. I need one room for sleeping in, one room for working in, and one room for sponsoring visiting bead artists! I would construct a wraparound worktop for the entire room, and have a kind of Ott-like track-style lighting, with free standing lamps at strategic points on the work top. I find that the daylight-type lamps greatly reduce eyestrain, and are much more pleasant than fluorescent lights. My work chair would be an ergonomic masterpiece in some beautiful colored leather, complete with heat and massage. (for those beading all-nighters!) I would have a shelving system that works on the same principle as the clothes rack at a drycleaners, so that all I would have to do is push a button to access the shelf that contains the supplies I want. One wall would be my mini-library, replete with all the beading books, magazines, DVD's, catalogs, etc. that anyone could ever want. And of course, I would have the little ladder on wheels to easily reach the top shelves. All of this would be done in a beautiful cherrywood. I still can't decide on the flooring.......my chair has wheels so I need something I can easily roll over. Wood is nice, but beads bounce on wood floors, and get lost in carpet. Hmm, I may just have to invent a revolutionary new type of bead flooring......I would have a set of french doors that lead out to a gorgeous courtyard complete with a soothing fountain for those days(nights) when the muse illudes me. The lovely brick walls would be covered in fragrant flowering vines, and my little espresso bar would always be open! Piped in music would complete the scene.
My beadroom would be stocked with just about anything I ever saw and wanted, including every type,color,finish,size of Swarovski and Preciosa crystal. I would have sterling and 14kt findings and beads, none of this 12kt fill or vermeil for me! My choice of stringing materials would come on industrial size rolls, no more 15ft reels! I would have a little machine to make my own flex needles, and also a little machine to make my gimp(using only sterling/gold wire of course)! My supply of Delicas, seedbeads, etc would encompass all sizes, colors, and types, in handy little dispensers like the ones used for doling out pills in a pharmacy, made especially for seed beads, and it would dispense 4grams at a time. I might buy a looper machine, but I haven't decided yet....I really like making my own loops. And of course, I would have all the necessary supplies for making my own jumprings and headpins.(hmm, might be time to start trying some chain maille?) And of course, running about the room on scheduled routes, my little robotic dropped-bead-picker-upper. There would be much more as far as beads and general findings, but the list is too long for me to do it justice. And of course the whole thing would be complete with maid and chef service, 'cuz when I'm in a creative mood, look out!
So, what's your dream room look like?
Pam
(This post was edited by pugdog on Feb 21, 2005, 10:47 AM)
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I doubt that 4000 sq feet would be enough! By the time I got done, that "one room for beading" would pretty much be the whole house! Kinda like my house is now. I have a bead/computer room, but seem to always end up at the kitchen table. We haven't been able to eat on it for so long I can't remember. I just can't stand to be stuck in my room away from everyone and all the action in the house! hubby bought me a nice little worktable for Christmas, which I used exactly once, and then moved back to the kitchen. Oh well. Maybe my dream beadroom would in all actuality be a KITCHEN!!!!! lol 