Dream Studio

I have always wanted my owns studio. I restore so many things like brass, quilts, lace, toys, furniture and even bones. Slowly I am moving all these tools, bins, books and more books into the studio. This is the doll, toys and automata restoration room. This restored white oak table has been retrofitted with reinforcement stability to take a lot of punishment. It can now withstand hammering and weights. The chair is modern picked up while thrifting. The rug is a modern washable rug.

Had the garage worked on and had to move projects around. 

I love the Repair Shop program. I know it is not real but the skilled restorers are doing real work.

My studio space lets me restore in my favorite Edwardian steampunk Sherlock environment. I have no pets to get into my restorations and I have a quiet place to work. I have 4 rooms to allocate projects. And each room is dressed in velvets, brocades, rugs, antique woods and many lights. 

 

Projects and more projects

This is a vintage lacquer shelf that I bought from an antiques dealer. Basically a box of parts.

And this is the reason I bought it. Under all those pieces were these doors with original hardware. This will be a fun restoration for me. I cleaned all the spiders off and found a note about the missing parts. Those missing parts I can remake myself. The the rest of this is so pretty. This will be one of the first projects I work on in my new studio.

The above cloak hooks broke as they were very low quality metal.  The antique cross hooks were salvaged and are solid brass. I removed the new hooks and put the antique ones on the cloak.

Here are the antique hooks backed with leather. The leather prevents staining and chafing of the brocade fabric of the cloak. I hand stitched the leather and hooks with book binder thread. This should last a long time.