I LOVE all the pictures. Mine is such a mess right now I can't take a pic. You see, here's how it went (cue "way back" music...)
My wife and I bought a 2 bedroom 1,300 sf house in Holiday, FL, and we lived there for about 6 years and had two kids. We bought the house for 48k and hit the market just right - sold it for about 98k. We had our new house built, 2,200 sf two story 4 bedroom. Since we only needed 3 bedrooms, we decided the fourth one we'd share - half would be my studio, the other half would be a desk for my wife. Better than nothing. But then we decided to get a big flat screen. Where did it end up? In the 4th bedroom. "Oh, it's no problem, you can kick us out any time you want to do music" the family chimed. Except that my wife and kids are slobs. I am, too, but not about music stuff. So now the room is a mess and I can't set foot in it without getting depressed. And with the mess came some boxes and some other crap that is being stored.
Add to that the fact that my studio is just for me - I don't record others in it. And I just released my third CD, so it'll be a while before I've got enough material written to record a new CD. What to do?
The long term plan is to have a talk with the family and reclaim the room. The short term plan was a big more drastic. I set up my keyboard, my guitars, and a small version of my live PA system in the living room. You wanna take my music room? Fine! I'll take the living room. Surprisingly no one has complained. So I'm writing songs in the living room and up in the bedroom. I need my music room back!
I've got a Mac running Logic Pro, a set of Alesis Monitor One speakers, a bunch of guitars and a bass, and so on.
