New DIY blogging room reveal is so exciting for me! Follow along with me on a tour of my new DIY blogging room design. This room only uses natural lighting from custom-made 26-foot store-front glass windows exposing mountain views and creating natural light.
This whole video below was shot with my iPhone 11 Pro max and the natural light from the windows and the LED recessed lights.
Why build a blogging room?
Even though we live in a relatively large home, I knew I wanted a designated blogging room. One that had natural lighting, a wood stove to cook on and overhead camera tracks. Raymond and I started this over a year ago on my birthday.
I already changed some of the original ideas that you will see in the video. Changing something until it feels “right” is a normal thing to do for us. If it means, revamping or starting over, then that is what we do. I never want to feel “boxed in” and unable to make a change.
DIY drop-down table with spring hinges
A table is a must for writing, journaling, and creating ideas. This wall-table is something we created to do just that. I bought the antique board from a local antique store for $10.
I use this table when the loom is not here. It pops up and down so I can eat my breakfast and watch the sunrise. The little back lip on the table is from a pallet board that we used for the landing strips on the wall.
Custom Windows for Natural Light
Onto the windows. These bad boys are custom made from our local glass company whom we use a lot to make mirror glass tops for tables. We did have to pay them to install them since we didn’t want to be responsible if we broke or cracked them.
You should have seen them coming up the mountain! It was well worth the extra labor. Each window is a 3 x 5 and solid glass just like the commercial storefront. It does get extremely hot here in the summer, but we did purchase a new HVAC unit at the end of fall for a very good price.
Watch the Blogging Room Reveal Video
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Wood Cookstove Review
Onto my new wood stove. I absolutely love this. It is a “Hasty Baker 1854” version. We found it on Facebook Marketplace for $600 and Ray picked it up. It was about a 2-hour drive each way. I prefer to hang my cast irons on my back wall where they are out of view.
This stove has 2 warming oven drawers. I also use them to store utensils when I am not using them. It is great when I want to proof yeast on a cold day. Today, I am making bone broth for my fur-babies.
Farmhouse Decor
The cabinet is my antique 1700’s antique hutch I had in the other room before I brought it in the blogging room. It now houses the ingredients and tools when I do my cooking and baking videos in the new blogging room.
Weaving and Sewing
I will be doing blogs and videos on weaving and sewing projects in the new blogging room. There is plenty of space to do it all.
Below are the cotton washcloths that I am presently working on. There is my singer old fashioned sewing machine I got a few weeks ago for $45. In this picture, the sewing machine is in the place where the loom is right now, so I do swap them out and I still have that great view.
DIY and Thrift Store Decor
The first mirror you saw in the intro, the round one, I actually made from a $2 clock from a garage sale that’s inside the house. I found the other brass one at our local Good Samaritan Thrift Store for $15.
That white little table, I got from my friend’s shop. It houses all of my dehydrator trays and mats.
The wooden basket Ray and I made over 30 years ago. I now use it for herbs, but back in the day, I used it as a dough rising basket.
Thrift Store Finds for Construction
The door for the entrance to the blogging room, we got for half-off at the Restore. It was $40, we got it for $20. As you can see in the video, it was plain and then we stained it and hung a barn rail on it which we have several barn rails over the house. I’ll leave the link in the description from Amazon.
That is the before and that’s once it is stained. And here is the final reveal. The handle came from Hobby Lobby and the glass I created doing a faux mercury glass. If you’d be interested in a full video on how I mercury glass, leave a comment in the description below with “yes you’d be interested in mercury glass”.
DIY Camera Ceiling Mounts
The ceiling tracks we installed last week. The first houses the iPhone and the second one will house one of my Canon cameras so I can do overhead B-roll shots. Ray and I actually did a whole video on this that I have to edit, but it showed how to install the tracks and the holders for the iPhone and for the camera role. I’ll be putting that out next week.
Blog posts mentioned in this video are:
Himalayan lamp blog post and video link
How to limewash brick blog post and video link
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