Moved!

For the last 2.5 years I have been operating this business from a room in our small 3 bedroom apartment. Well as I have grown it has become an issue. I didn't have room for my assistants or myself to effectively work. The studio space has always only been big enough for shooting and meeting. And it's hardly large enough for that.

So after being utterly miserable, cramped, uninpired I finally buckled down over the last year and prepared us to be able to buy a home. It was tough, the market in Brookings typically didn't have anything nice in our price range. But my wonderful friend Kristi and her hubby decided to sell at the same time we were ready to buy. So with the help of Spencer Huggett, one of last years grooms and financial and mortgage guy extrodiannaire we moved in last Friday.

The office and internet were down while we tried to move during a blizzard - o so much fun. But we are in and loving it. The office is 3x the size as before. There is wonderful light that I can shoot with if anyone wants to use a home, I plan to get some great furniture for portraits here too. And well it's just huge compared to our little apartment. And now I'm inspired and ready to get busy.

Here are some images. I'll show you some of the progress as we go along, you will see we need furniture and wall coverings. I can't wait to put some large images on the wall!
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From walking into the house:

Down the hallway to Ayden's room first.

To the next room which is our closet, soon to be walk-in from the other room. We are handy and have big and small plans.

And our room. By the way Kristi did an amazing job painting the place!

Back on the hallway from our room. You can see the original ACE on the wall.

The upstairs/boys bathroom. Kristi just redid it and the toilet is the bomb with a lid that won't slam down!

The view from the corner of the dining room.

Then the living room from the dinning room.

Another living room view. I can't wait to put something cool on this wall.

This is our penninsula to the kitchen. We already took out the cabinets above. Nice lighting to follow.

Then from the corner of the kitchen. Stairs to lower level are on the left.

The basement hall.

Kaleb's/Spare Room at the bottom of the stairs. If anyone needs a place to stay I can actually give you a room. Yeah! Dad come visit. There will be a bed in here, it's still in storage since we keep getting all this beautiful snow.

And the all important office. Painted grey for color correcting. More shelving for organizing to come. But it's nice now. And we took out the ceiling tile - it did not inspire me. And I like the open ceiling much much better.

My bathroom, but I'll share with visitors, Ayden thinks the tub is his personal pool and is now too good to take a bath in the regular tub upstairs.

The big room/game room/fun room/lovesac room.

And our other renovation project:
The wash area. We removed cuboards so we could stack the washer and dryer. Which by the way I'm so glad to have. They have been in storage while we were in the apartment and I missed them so much. I have shelving on order. I'll show pics then. Ayden thought the washer was super cool and watched the first load.

And our big beautiful backyard, with Andy's fortrese of solitude aka shed.

I appreciate so much having this space. I feel so much better and want to get up and be in my home in the morning. And we have more room in the office to work and again this is so much better.

Ok happy me off to a shoot. Must get back to work.
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