The darkroom dilemma…

So I’ve spent most of this week cleaning out the new studio space. It’s surprising how much rubbish there was in there.

Heres some quick snaps of the progress so far…
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And the progress so far today…

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Initially I was going to put up some solid stud walls in that right hand corner. Board over the window and make it all light tight. This would mean losing one window space and nearly a quarter of the floor space.

My second thought was of two folding walls, when closed they would box in the sink (in the window space) and adjacent wall. This would open up the floor space but still lose the window.

My third option is one of light tight curtains coming from each wall. A roller black out blind for the window, maybe leaving lower section covered with rubylith.

The latter two options would mean making a ceiling box section to make it light tight as the ceiling isn’t exactly flat. Plenty of beams, pipes and wires.

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Just to convince me further, I ripped the lower section of “insulation” of the right hand window and its amazing how much light it lets in. So it seems a real shame to board/block out that window.

Any suggestion people might have I’d love to hear from you…

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