I’ve been quietly chipping away at the studio, in addition to collecting magnets as part of outskirts – nothing like home decoration on the cheap!
So I am slowly, but surely turning this:

it's like all my creative pursuits exploded over the one room
Into a room that I can a) get into; b) paint and create stuff in and c) store drunken house guests in need of a sleep over.
As you can see, at the moment I can’t even get into the room to do a) and b) and c) could result in some injured friends (on the plus side, if they are drunk enough then they are unlikely to feel their injury let alone remember it…)
The start of the process was to scooch into the limited real estate behind the expedit and paint the skirtings.
Given the small space left behind the expedit, that part of the experience was a little bit The Great Escape-ish only without the prison camp guards, scoops of dirt, disguised entrance and the other POWs:

Ok - where's my steve mcqueen?
Once the skirtings were dry, DIY Dad had to help me move the expedit back to the wall:

Still no steve mcqueen...what could possibly be keeping him?
So that I could then put all my unfinished canvases against the wall and rearrange the rest of the room so that I could get to the skirtings on the other side of the room:

Unfinished canvas classification system being developed
It turns out I have alot of unfinished canvases atm:

Maybe steve is behind the canvases?
DIY Dad is currently over my house taking the handle off the door of the studio-slash-guest room so that I can paint the other side of the room.
Once that is done, I can set up the studio and then move onto sorting out the office:

All it needs is a little organisation and alot of storage
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