How To Create A Modern Workspace for Artists, Programmers, and Tinkerers
My guide to turning a classic drafting table into a multi-purpose place for all things creative
What I needed
Growing up, I was training to be a fine artist. Then, during the dot-com boom, I switched to Web development. I also do photography and work with electronics. It’s been hard to figure out the exact space I needed to do all of these things. Now that my boys are getting older, and our dining room table is their art studio, I figured it was time to come up with a solution. Plus, I’m stuck and home and won’t be traveling for the foreseeable future, which motivated me to take this project on.
I know that I am a bit of an outlier. On any given day, I might be switching between several different activities. So, to create a work area that supports all of my interests, I made a list of priorities. These are the things I needed the workspace to allow me to do:
- Draw — traditional and digital
- Research — online research for ideas, tutorials, reading, and note-taking
- Electronics — soldering, rewiring, and modifying hardware
- Photography — taking and cleaning up digital photography
