Last weekend was a great weekend. My race medals hit the market AND my dad and brother finally made it down to help me start building a clay studio. The plan, in a nutshell, is to put up some dividing walls in the basement and add more light and electricity. Here is what the “clay side” of the basement looked like before we started.
If you’ve been keeping score at home you probably noticed that I removed the “clay bubble” to give us room to work. Look at all the room! We made a trip to Lowes and got some wood and fluorescent lights and other necessary items and got to work. We worked most of the day, only taking a break to eat my wife’s awesome lasagna. They headed back home around 5:30. We got all the studs cut and I got to use a nifty nail gun to help put them in place. My brother got some of the electrical work done. Now the “paint side” lights can be operated with switches instead of pull chains and my wife actually has a decent amount of light in her new laundry room. Here are some pictures of construction in progress and where we stopped at the end of day 1.
As you can tell, these walls probably won’t keep much clay dust from flying around. But I will probably put up some plastic for now and the next time they come down we’ll go get some drywall and finish the lights and outlets. I’ve already been setting up the studio. I took apart the white shelves and put together my clay table. Maybe next weekend I’ll have my wheel set up…