Pluses and Minuses
There are pros and cons to having your studio in your house.
| Pros | Cons |
| The biggest one – it’s much cheaper than renting a space. | The con is that you end up with artwork in various stages of completion and art supplies all over your living space. |
| Short commute: whenever I want to work I’m there. | Can end up working some odd hours. |
| When I’m doing tedious or painstaking work that I need to take a break from I can easily take a productive break by starting a load of laundry or dinner. | It’s easy to get distracted by household tasks, particularly if the thread keeps jamming up or lines start going crooked and need to be redone. |
| I like living with my work. After I think I’m done with a piece I hang it up where I’ll see it regularly in different light so I can decide if it’s really done. | You can get tired of looking at your own work after a while. There may be something to be said about separating home and work. |
| Solitude – I am an introvert so it is nice to have the quiet of my own space. | Solitude – when renting a space you generally are in a community of artists, which can be very supportive. |
I fell prey to number three this week. The thread kept jamming up on me, to the point where I had to take the bobbin housing on my sewing machine apart and yank thread out with pliers. I invented new swear words. Then I did laundry. And vacuumed. And then I noticed that my closets needed desperately to be reorganized. If you want to procrastinate it is very easy to find ways to do so if you are working from home.
But still I think this works out better for me than having to pay for a separate studio space. I just need to make peace with my bobbin housing.