I lust after a real room with a real door that closes so it can contain all my craftiness, stashes of supplies, and – most especially, a huge work table. But alas, we also want to live in San Francisco. 

However, our lean square footage didn’t stop my incredibly game husband and me from sectioning off part of our living with a moveable wall that acts as a little studio. We’re lucky to have a big living room, and this end was limping along as dead space, sucking the life out of the rest of the living room until the nook came along.

This project took some carpentry skills, but nothing too mega. We got the wood precut at the lumberyard, so you don’t need anything more fancy than some nails and pluck. My husband made the frame out of 2x4s, then attached pre-cut hardboard on one side and pegboard on the other. We (and I’m being very generous to myself when I use that word) popped it on casters so we could expand or contract the little studio depending on our living room use.

One the studio side, I painted the pegboard pale pink and added towel bars from Ikea hold stashes of fabric.

On the living room side, I painted it light blue and added some red flowers from a stencil I made. I found a two-dimenstional flower I liked in a pattern book, scanned it, and blew it up to size of a piece of paper. Then I traced it onto a stencil sheet, cut it out and painted in a random pattern that I made up as I went along.

I offer in case you, too, lust after a room of one's own.