This was probably our simplest transformation… Yet it took us the longest to “complete” (I think most homeowners understand that the state of completeness, doesn’t really exist). But I do love this room. It wasn’t a must for me to have a studio in our new home, it was more in the “would-be-nice” column. But when I realized the possibilities of a gorgeously lit room that stays cool in even the summer afternoons, I became hooked on it being a studio.

Let me explain this room a bit because it’s weird. Our house at some point had a front porch. We think it was about the size of this room, one day the owners decided front doors were overrated, walled in the porch and made a sunroom. It is a nice sunroom, don’t get me wrong, but our house has a amazing (maybe its not amazing but in my book, it is) deck. Texan and I are “deck” people. A sunroom that you can’t grill in just isn’t going to be used (a rooms valued is based on it’s ability to produced food for me). He let this room go rather quickly.

So the original green floors would have put a terrible colorcast on peoples faces but I needed the most cost effective way to get them all white.

The solution for us was just to paint everything white. It’s not the most long lasting method but for what we need this floor (reflect light) to do, it’s perfect. The most time consuming part was taping off the windows. And then since we used a spray gun for the paint, that step was completed in about 30 minutes.

I have mixed feelings on using the spray gun. It ups your prep time quite a bit but then speeds up the painting process. If we had to it over again I would still use it but you definitely want to practice to minimize drippy spots.Then we bought cheap curtains and rods from Lowes and hung them in a few hours. As of right now I don’t have many more plans for this room. Working in a traditional studio for years taught me the usefulness of a simple room in a crunch or bad weather.

This is probably my most “controversial” room (no one actually cares that much it just sparks conversation). Photographers love what I did, ask about the light in the afternoon, etc. While non-photographers (is there another way to put that?) talk about the furniture they would put in. I think if we ever rent for Masters I would scrounge up chairs and put them here but for us I love this room being a studio. You can see my first shoot in it here.