What have we done !!!!

Indeed, what have we done ! :)

Well as with most things that happen to me, this happened very quickly, one week I have no real intentions of getting a studio, the next week I have one, well that is to say WE have one, I have rented a building to turn into a studio with Tammy, Tammy is a photographer and friend that lives nearby and has the same aspirations to better her photography and offer more services in her photography business. My partner Jen managed to find this one after a short search, in fact hardly any search, this was the first one that came up ! Thats how things seem to happen for me, I kind of get pushed in a direction by the powers that be, when its the right time, it usually happens easily, this is one of those times, so I can only assume that this is the way I am meant to be going, and as such I'm hoping that success is going to come just as easily, we will see !.

The building is very useful, its near Gloucester City Centre, 5 minute walk, is the complete ground floor of a 2 storey building, the upper floor is a flat which is occupied. Security is good on the place, iron gates, security lights, and LOTS of locks. As you can see from the pic below, it used to be Barrys Disco Centre. The building is up the drive you can see on the right. The signs will soon be replaced with ours ! :).

When we took the place on, only a matter of days ago, it had a main room, which incorporated a welcome podium, a toilet, and another toilet room behind the podium.

You enter the building from a smaller front door, but the side of the building has a larger sliding door which will be useful for getting large products in that may need to be photographed, even a small car would go in i think, so def motorbikes and such.

From the main room you went to through to a storage room, this room was wall to wall shelving up to the roof with a walk way in between.

Then you went through to another room which would/could be used as an office / print room.

This used to be Barrys Disco Centre, as a result the place is FULL of power sockets lol, as you can see from the office pics, actually I think this room was used to repair electrical equipment, so that would explain the power sockets in there.

The guy that we are renting the building is great, the rent is pretty cheap for what we are getting, and he doesnt mind what we do to the inside, basically said gut it if we want to, which isnt far from what we intend to do lol. He's actually a dream landlord as long as we pay him his rent each month, so that is a big bonus. Very easy going. One nice touch, when we agreed to rent the building, he said he would give us a months grace to have a real good go at getting it how we want it before having to pay for it, which I thought was really nice, he didnt need to do that.

So anyway, yesterday Tammy and her husband Peter went in and started taking the shelving boards down, leaving the metal framework, there were so many shelves ! Peter also fitted a new lock to the small front door as the one that was on it was broken. So the place is lock tight now ! Today, I went down, took Barney, my dog to see what all the fuss was about lol, Tammy met me down there and we managed to clear the storage room completely....

Oh we realised the place didnt have a letterbox as the small front door entrance is in a passageway that goes up to the flat above, so have fitted a outdoor postbox by the sliding door to make things easier, needed to get it done as expecting forms to apply for business rates and they are being sent to the business address.

And here are the proud new partners of a joint photography studio !

How colourful is our studio !? LOL ok this is photoshopped obviously ;)