A wonderful find

For those of you that don't know, the area of the house that we have marked as the "Studio" will become a library and a creative space for me - I guess Derek will be able to use it if he has to :-) Come on, he will have a gigantic shed so don't feel too sorry for him.

Anyway, the eastern wall will be floor to ceiling bookshelves, potentially a mezzanine level or a really cool sliding ladder. This is something that we've known in our minds for a while now.

There is one other design element that I've been hoping to obtain, a piece of furniture that I've always wanted - a set of plans drawers. We've found a couple of them down here, one needed significant restoration, and wasn't really quite right, the other was a little too expensive for what it was.

Then, the other weekend, we went shopping at a really cool antique/second hand place down here and found these:

Or should I say "found and purchased these". A beautiful set of plans drawers in very good condition which are a better height, due to the extra drawers on top. They are massive, so big that they will not fit through a standard doorway - which is to our benefit as they had already been sold twice, but to people who couldn't get them into the house. Fortunately we have double doors into the lounge/dining and them double doors into the studio, so no dramas there.

The coolest thing is that they came out of the Hydro, they even have a little asset plate still on them. Apparently they had their own workshop and they would have been built in-house, which I think is particularly special.

Not only do we now have a gorgeous piece of furniture to set the tone for the room, but we have our own little piece of Tasmanian history in it as well.

Now if only we had the house to put it into... :-)