You want to see my studio?
Hey everyone, it's Anne Reburn, and welcome to my studio build vlog part one. I've been living
in this two-bedroom apartment with roommates but now I'm taking over the lease which means
I get to take over this room. This is gonna be my studio slash guest room. Now after taking a poll
on Instagram, which by the way it wouldn't hurt if you followed me on Instagram, the people wanted to
see several shorter vlogs of the process, so that's what I'm doing. And this is phase one. Phase one is
going to be me moving all of my existing stuff into this room and taking stock of what I need
to do. Phase two will be buying some new things, replacing my oldest things because some of this
stuff I've had since my first apartment which I moved into in 2013, so it's now 10 years old
already. I can't believe how time has flown. And phase three will be more decorating and final
touches. Let's see if that goes according to plan. I have a feeling that phase two and phase three
might blend into each other a little bit. But that's not what we're thinking about
right now, right now we're thinking about phase one. Let's go! This is the empty room we started
out with. Stepping past the fan which is blowing because we just got the carpet cleaned, this is
what we're working with. The room is about 12 by 10 feet. Lucky me, everyone knows how often
it rains in Southern California, we did the carpet cleaning in January during a chunk
of rainy days, so we couldn't open the window to help with the drying. It ended up taking quite a
bit longer than expected to dry, but on day three I was getting so impatient to get started because
I love organizing, that we went ahead and put a few things up in the closet. The carpet was
feeling pretty dry on day four, so I went ahead and went in and started taking some of the scuffs off
the walls and filling in the holes. We were still in those cold rainy days, and I was trying to save
money by not turning the heater on (who says that YouTubers aren't relatable) so yes I am dressed
like I just rolled out of bed. Also because I had literally just just rolled out of bed. Make fun
of me if you want here. Here's a better angle so you can make fun of me even more. I didn't do the
best job patching the holes, and the compound also doesn't match the paint color, so now my
walls kind of look like they have the pox. But that's a problem for phase two or phase three Anne.
Okay, now the carpet is really dry. We can finally move furniture in the room, and I can start dealing
with this pile in the living room. A key part of my closet strategy includes tetris-ing all
the boxes up high. Some of these are boxes I need to access frequently, like the ones with
mics in them, but some of them are important empty boxes. I saved the boxes for my second screen and
for my speakers because the fact of the matter is that if you're moving, those original boxes
are the easiest and safest ways to transport these important pieces of gear. Now it's time to
reassemble the desk. If you think this looks like a pain in fast motion, imagine doing it normal speed.
Endless tangle of cables Endless tangle of cables
Oh it never ends It never ends
This is my life now (Oh well)
I did my cables as neatly as possible but it still looks like a mess on the back. I'm thinking I need to buy some cable ties or a cable snake, but that's another
problem for phase two or phase three Anne. I did a little more closet rearranging, and here's how it
ended up at the end of the day. A bed! This is gonna be the guest bed. We don't have mattresses for it
yet, but we have a bed! And we hung up curtains. For the first time in my life I correctly measured
the width of the window to buy the correct amount of curtain panels, because in the past
um-- uh-- and I also did that trick where you hang the curtains higher and wider than the window to
make the window look bigger. I got this double curtain rod where I have sheer panels on the
inside to give it privacy and filter the light, and then on the outside I have this heavy light
blocking curtain to keep it cooler on hot days, or to block light when I want to record in here.
Of course I didn't buy the right curtain length, but uh that's a problem for phase two or phase
three Anne. Now that the desk is set up I can start working on yet another pile. Oh-- and my tripod fell
over. What I was gonna say is that some of this stuff is going in the cabinet part of my desk,
and some of it will go in a filing cabinet that hasn't arrived yet. A box! If you're not thinking
about how good this box would be as a fort, you're wrong. My filing cabinet is here! I mean of course
I measured the dimensions and tried to visualize it in the room, but my god, it's huge. Like I said
before, I love organizing so I am excited about this. It feels so good to organize stuff. Oh but
in the bottom drawer there were these metal things. Does anyone know what these are for? Oh
no! Okay, it's gonna get worse before it gets better. And here's the state of everything after my first
organizing pass. It feels... not that much better. It's gonna get worse before it gets better, I know. It's
gonna get worse before it gets better. Okay, I decided I need to buy some little metal bins
to organize in here. The only bin I have right now is helpful, but it's made of some sort of
board covered in fabric, you know, and it's coming apart where it's glued at the corners. I've decided
I have reached the limit of what I can do without organizing bins and I need to go out and buy them.
Success!
Here are the bins! I've got one for art and drawing supplies, one for cables and my Polaroid camera, and
one miscellaneous. I also grabbed a mirror at the store. A lot of times I record myself and I don't
have a designated camera person. I need to check my hair and makeup and make sure everything looks
okay. It's not as easy as it would seem, because I always have to box myself in with the tripod,
lights, laptop, and sometimes an instrument. And here's the closet so far! It's, um, well, at least
everything fits in there. I definitely needs some organization though. But that's a problem for phase
2 or phase 3 Anne. For now I can just shut the door and pretend it doesn't exist.
Mattresses No bedding yet but that's on me because I haven't decided what the color scheme in here is yet
except for the green curtains. Is that a phase two or a phase three Anne thing? I'm not really sure who
I should delegate that one to. I was thinking maybe white bedding with a rust orange or warm brown
and navy blue as accent colors. I was also toying with the idea of a shades of green, shades of pink
color scheme. Like a soft blush pink with the olive curtains and maybe a sage green too. Mostly because
of this lamp. I don't have another place for it, but I can't get rid of it. I know those colors would
look good together, because it's a good combination, it's just I'm not a huge pink person. But that lamp!
You know, but I just tend to gravitate more towards the deep, rich colors like my first option, which is
this mossy green, rusty orange, and navy blue. But hey, we got mattresses! Now I've got everything set
up enough in here to be able to work, which is a great feeling, so I took a little break from the
room setup to start on my next cover. As I move into these next phases of studio building, today
my friend Nina who's a musician and an engineer is coming over to help me analyze this space
and decide what acoustic treatment it needs and where it needs it. I'm super excited about this
because it's something that I've never been able to have, and I feel like I'm becoming a
real producer! And it's also just a reminder to me personally that even though I'm such a DIY person,
other people can help you. What a concept! Other people! Besides just the normal social interaction
between human beings that is much needed and much appreciated, when you can talk about
work and stuff and share this common language, um, the power of the community and the power of those
connections. I can help people with things they need help with, they can help me with things I need
help with, and we both come out better for it. The analysis process involved using some cool software
and websites and a variety of different tones and beeps to generate these charts that, if you're
smart enough, (I am not) you can figure out what they mean for the sound in your room.
Anne: Okay, I'm ready.
[Beep]
Anne: Oh that was a short one! Nina: It's gonna do it now. Anne: Okay.
Nina: Okay!
We found problem areas here (claps) and here (claps).
Now I said that phase one was just gonna be moving my existing stuff into this room, so I think that's a good place to end this video. But before I go, you may have noticed that we flipped the furniture around.
So, when Nina came over to help me figure the acoustics out, she told me that the desk would be better in the middle of this longest wall.
So we moved to the desk to where the bed used to be and now the bed is on the wall by the door where the desk used to be.
So what's next? Well, I left quite a few problems for phase two and phase three Anne.
I'm sure they'll understand. But one thing I really definitely need is a closet storage
solution. I was thinking about some sort of sort of shelving unit up against the wall of this closet
These three boxes that are stacked right here are actually t-shirts. They're my merch. So whenever someone orders
something, I need to get into one of those boxes, and it would be really nice if I could store
those on shelves, or in tubs, or I don't know, just anything that's nicer than a cardboard box. I also
need to find a place for all of these things. I don't know if that's going to be in the closet or
not. The printer, it would be nice if I could find a place for it to be plugged in and out, because
that's what I used to print my shipping labels for my merch orders, so it's nice to not have to plug
it in and set it up every time that someone orders something. Also this chair, some of you already know
the lore of this chair. But this chair has been with me for 10 years now, and you can really tell.
So at first the whole chair had this fake leather on it, but it started flaking off on the seat part.
So I put duct tape on that part to try to stop the flaking, but the duct tape ended up pulling at the
rest of it, so I ended up having to to cover the whole seat in duct tape. That was a bad idea. So I
ended up having to take the duct tape all off, and then it was just this foam that was underneath. And
then the same thing happened with this top part of the chair, and so now it's just the foam with
none of the fake leather, and also there's a hole right here now. So I-- I definitely need a new chair.
There's also like no padding left in the seat part, so I can't sit normally in the chair because it's
too uncomfortable for me. So I fell into an office chair research rabbit hole, as one does, and I went
to try some of the chairs in person, and I got these fabric swatches to take with me. Of course
there's black, but it's kind of boring, and they have other colors, so why not get a color maybe?
There's gray, which is another neutral option, but I'm kind of over gray, to be honest. You know there
was that period in interiors where everything new and modern was gray? When I'm looking on Zillow at
houses that I can't afford and I see a new remodel with those gray floors? Ugh. Anyway, the other neutral
fabric swatch that I grabbed was this sort of tan beige that they call truffle. I do like this one,
but I'm worried about the dirt factor, especially because, and don't roast me for this, but I don't
like to sit normally in the chair. If I were always sitting with my feet on the floor maybe I wouldn't
be so much about getting the chair dirty, but if my feet are on it? I don't know. I feel like the
color choice on the chair could also dictate the color choice of the bedding, or vice versa. But I'm
spending so long talking about the colors of the fabric on the chair and the bedding, and I feel
like that's what nobody cares about, so! This desk is another thing that's been with me since 2013,
and while it's still working for me, and there's nothing wrong with it, unlike the chair, which is
absolutely shameful, I know, I do like the idea of a little bit bigger desk, and I also really
like the idea of a standing desk. The only thing is that with the amount of stuff that I have on
here, I I'm not really sure if an adjustable height desk would work with all of that or
not. Speaking of the desk, maybe a better way to manage those cables that are below and behind
it. I need to buy and try some acoustic treatment based on what Nina told me, I need to paint over
the patches on the pox walls, I need to shorten the curtains, and I need to decide what to do
about these instruments that are still hanging in the other room. And that wraps up phase one of
the studio vlog! Can't wait to hear what you think about all of this in those comments. If you aren't
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