Willa Hartt LLC

🫣 Silver lining time. As well as a little .hartt studio reveal!

📆 When I found myself unable to work back in June, I had already planned on having some work done on my studio at the beginning of July. The plan was to -finally- finish things off.

🪜 After working for three years in a bare bones shell, with no insulation for our long Maine winters, plus no walls, lights, electricity, etc., I was pretty ridiculously excited at the prospect of having “real” walls, and a ceiling! Plus a few additional windows for better light.

🧮 I was also excited to put my long-time plan into action with these built in cross-window shelves, which run the whole length of this 16’ wall. I’ve been sketching these since we started building my studio, so seeing them finally brought to life is beyond amazing.

📚 I couldn’t wait to fill them, and the studio itself, will all of my things and get back to work!

💃 But the silver lining is that, because I wasn’t able to work, I ended up moving most of my things entirely OUT of the studio, and giving it over entirely to renovation space.

🔥 It took about three weeks to fully finish the exterior siding and trim, completely insulate the interior walls and ceiling, install and paint my long-lusted-for bead board walls and this cool ceiling (just sheets of plywood with strips covering the gaps!), and build all of my custom shelves, which extend to the opposite wall, too!

🧳 I’m so glad I was able to fully move out and be out of the way while this all went on!

👨🏻‍🔧 The work was all done by my super talented friend Rangeley and I could not be more pleased with the end results. He successfully took all of my half-baked, hair-brained schemes, and translated them into the beautiful, and functional, space you see here.

🙏 I’m still not fully moved back in, but each time I add something back it feels good, and right, and like I’m one step closer to being -myself- again.

🏆 Good things come to those who wait…and plan, and plot, and wait some more.

🛠️❤️👨🏻‍🔧🙏🔥🏡😍📆🏆🪜🧳💃🧮🏡