My hobby room is a full bedroom that is mine; the room even has an attached full bathroom. I use it for music, computer, and I have a desk for building, and a second desk for painting. Helps keep the sanding/filing mess to one place. Also means I can work on two projects at the same time now.

My hobby room is my games room and dining room. I paint where the light is best at the time.

I use the organised chaos system. to an outsider it looks a mess, but I can find what I want when I need it… mostly.

Sometimes I look for something I haven’t used in a few years and it frustrates me if it takes longer than 5 minutes to locate it…[Read more]

You need somewhere to go where all of that mental noise, good or bad, isn’t there.

100% with you on that.

Follow-up answer:  I have a dedicated hobby room.  That said the capacity to make mess is severely restricted as the house is for sale so it has to be returned to ‘show standard’ at a day’s notice.  I’ve had to pack away my airbrush station and about half of my paints as they cluttered the place up too much.  I’m looking forward to moving when I’l…[Read more]

It’s Monday.

Some very interesting takes on “how to keep clean”.  I would like to pose a follow up question: how many of you have a hobby room that serves more than one purpose? For me it’s not just hobby but also business so keeping it reasonably clean is kind of a must to not loose control.

Pledge::

Cataloging what I have on the shelves and what I really need to finish some projects.

(side note:: this weekend was the local Library Book sale.  I snagged 17 hardbacks, 6 paperbacks, and a stack of hobby magazines and spent less than a $20 bill!  Pretty stoked about that haul)

Question of the week::

If you finally acknowledge t…[Read more]