Felting and Fiber Studio

In July, our water heater decided to start pouring water all over the floor. But it was a bit sneaky because instead of on top of the floor, the water went between the wood laminate and the sub-floor. We didn’t notice it right away until the edges of the wood laminate started deforming. Oh no… Because of the way our house is made and the inability to replace 20+ year old wood laminate, we have to replace the entire floor. Our house is only on one level and everything needed to be removed from the house. When the house was built, the paint used was not very good and the trim and doors were all painted the same color as the walls, a tan color. This post has little to no art/fiber in it, so feel free to quit reading if you don’t want to hear the rest of the floor removal/replacement saga.

Here’s a picture of part of my studio room before this happened. I had just cleaned it out to accomodate the new work table given to me by my friend Deb.

Here’s a couple more photos showing how much stuff I have in this room. And it all had to be removed. I decided that since everything had to be moved out and this room had not been repainted since the house was built, I would paint it with bright white to hopefully make it feel brighter.

Here’s the room after the first coat of white was completed. If you look at the closet door on the right side of the photo, you can see the original color of paint. I was just planning on painting the studio but ended up with a much bigger painting project than planned.

We had a removal company (that is being paid by the insurance company) come and remove everything from the house. Here you can see some of my studio furniture being take away.

Most of the furniture is gone and you can see on the left side where the floor was damaged. For a little fiber relief, my umbrella felt tree is on top of the wall unit holding the television.

Edgar had a hard time with all of this. People were stealing his furniture and everything is out of place. We’re now staying in our camper in the driveway with winter coming on fast.

Here’s the living room with all the base trim removed and the old laminate torn up. The sub-floor has been sanded and hopefully, by the time this post goes live, the new flooring will be in.

Here’s my painting station. I am repainting all the inside doors (11) in the house. They were painted the tan color and need two coats of the semi-gloss white paint. So it is  taking me a while. I am also painting any base board that wasn’t white (all the closets) and also several doorway moldings that hadn’t been painted. Another bit of fiber is on the wall (right side of photo) that is usually over my bed. These are two needle pointed pieces, one that was stitched by my dad and the other (right) by my mom.

I have another three days at least of painting doors but the good news is how nice the house will look after this is all finished. This definitely wasn’t in the plan for this year but I’m finally getting these doors painted correctly after 23 years! Hopefully, next post, I will be back to fiber/art production.