Before Eli we made another small addition to our apartment, an extra room. Ever since we moved into our one bedroom apt I've alway been curious of a locked door that presumably lead to another room under our apt. One day when our landlord was over I asked about it and he showed me and told me that at one point it was going to be a small studio but when neighbors complained about parking they cancelled it and the room turned into a storage unit for them. I was in love at first sight, something about an empty room that calls out to you... endless possibilities. So I came up with a plan to ask for the space. "You know that room downstairs... well I was thinking since you can't rent it out to anyone maybe you could let us use it for $100/month. Of course I'll clean it up, you don't have to do anything to it." After a week they got back to us and it was a go! Nice! So I started cleaning it out, horrible carpet, dust, cobwebs and crickets all over the place. Eventually I got to this brand new portable AC unit that he decided to leave for us to use still in the box and when I moved it... mold!!!!! Ah... we thought, "well too bad, would have been nice." So I called up our landlord to let him know and... bada bing bada boom, they had someone come in a clean up the mold and put in a new floor, they also let us pick the floor! So for the past two months I've been fixing up the room little by little on my own. I painted the walls and trim, bought and put together a shelf, and recently made something to hold photo seamless backdrops.
It was hard to decided what to use the room for; as an office, personal studio, storage, guest room, or entertainment room. Though empty it feels big as soon as you put stuff in it gets small quick so I came to the conclusion to keep the main room as empty as possible and resist the urges to fill it with stuff. It will be our creative area, a place that can be anything at anytime. A drawing room, a photo/video studio, an office, a sewing room, a screening room, a music room, or just a hang out room.
My imagination needs a place to fill. Here it is.
