Welcome to the board. You will love it here.
I don't live in the city of Midland, but I do live in the county of Midland, hence, Greendale Township.
I am about 15 miles west of downtown.
Chippewa River Rd dead-ends at our driveway which is a long one.[/quote]

I'm in Homer Twp I have a feeling were pretty close to each other.

Hope you take before pictures, I always forget to do that and then I can't gloat about what a good job we did. I'm sure we would all like to watch the progress and lift a glass of something when you are done.

MNM Central Calif

Thank you, yes I took a few pictures, part of which are on here. I wish I had taken more. I do have the walls and ceiling scrubbed down now. Still have to Kilz and Paint. Suppose to have a metal roof put on next week. I'm calling it "My Money Pit" now. Still LOTS to do.

Cakelsy - how is your sewing house coming along? I hope you haven't worked yourself ill with this project! Best wishes - hoping for more pictures soon - J

It's coming along....slowly. But they are suppose to put my metal roof on tomorrow if there is no chance of rain. They were supposed to start Monday but we had rain.

Cakelsey,
I've been wondering how your sewing house is going? Did you get the roof on? Thank you so much for sharing your project with us. If I lived close by I would come and help!
We once scrubbed, cleaned and painted a house that was attached by a hallway to a restaurant that burned. The firemen had broken in the door to check for occupants. The house wasn't burned, but the smoke from the other building damaged everything! We didn't live there then, but was able to get it for extremely low rent ($150/mo) because we cleaned & painted everything inside & out. The landlord was so happy about it that he never raised the rent in the 5 years we lived there! An out-of-state job required us to move.
I said all that to tell you I know how much work it is to scrub and paint an entire house, hope all is going well.

Hi Grammy, yes I got the roof on and the next day the appraisal district was taking a picture of it. Wonder how much they are going to raise my taxes. Sounds like you went through a lot too but I'd say the low rent was worth it. It would be hard to find a deal like that nowadays. I'll tell you I wish we had stock in caulk. Seems like we buy all Walmart has everytime we go. We have used so much.

Carol,

How is your quilting house coming along? I can't believe it was so many months ago that you posted about this. Hope all is well ~ J

Carol,

Wow sound like you will have fun in your sewing studio "studio house" that is fantastic, have fun!

Craftybear

Jbud2 and Craftybear, thanks for asking..I do finally have one working room in the house.I will try to attach a couple of pictures of the progress. I wound up putting sheers in front of all my bookcases and thread racks. I have a peg board on one wall. Hopefully will have more room to spread out when we get another room ready.

Carol,

Can I come and sew with you! love it!

I love your sewing room, thanks for sharing with all of us

also please add your pictures of your sewing room here on the board under pictures and tell us about that you have a house next door that will be your sewing room studio

Congratulations!

Thank you I wish you could. I could use the lessons. I'm kind of new to all this and mostly just play.

Carol, your cottage looks grand, how I would love to have a place like that. That will be a true get away.

It looks like it took alot of work, but wow, the results are wonderful. Have fun sewing and creating.

Carol i had forgotten about your lil house until i was searching for something else this am...love it! its coming along nicely...thanks so much for sharing all your hard work.

Thank you, I'm hoping to get another usable room before long.

Humidity and darkness is the bigest enemy of fabic because mildew loves them both. Cloth curtains would be better to cover your material. Heater and air conditioner shouldn't do any damage at all. Aren't you the lucky one to have not just a room of ones' own but a whole house!!!!!!!

I heat my whole house (two story) with wood heat. We have duct work going into all the rooms and a contraption that my husband built to circulate the heat to the rooms. I have no trouble. BUT we do keep a large pot of water on the wood stove the whole time it is in use, keeps some moisture in the air.

My craft room is also cooled by a window ac unit. No problems at all.

I agree with some of the others, cover the fabric with fabric, not clear vinyl. I think the vinyl might spot the fabric.

Can't wait to see it all done.

Thank you, as you can see from the last pictures I used sheers to cover my 3 bookcases and so far no problem. I sure will be glad when it's all done.

On page 11 are updated pictures. I used a gas heater in the sewing room. Seems to be working out okay and I did use sheers on the bookcases so I can also see thru them. I've been working to clear out another room so it can be painted.

looks like it is coming along nicely! the only thing you will need is a sewing buddy, then let the good times roll!

I hadn't seen this post last year. What a tremendous amount of work. I have rental units and also wonder how people can live the way they do.

Congratulations. Soon you will be hosting your own little retreats and having your sewing buddies over. What a blessing.

Thank you...I've had several offers. LOL

Thank you..I still just have room enough for myself right now.

Congratulations on the house. It's coming along beautifully. The current sewing area looks like a dream area.

Thank you. We are finally starting on another room.

We have an Amish fire place (Adds in most papers in Fall) and we really like it. We were told that it heats only the air in a room and not furnishings. It works real good when used in one room. Sorry I didn`t see your sewing room.

Sounds nice. We bought a little standing gas heater that seemed to do the job last winter.