whoa!!!! I dig it!!!!

All I can say is WOW WOW WOW! I love it! I so wish I could afford something like that here in Santa Barbara... Actually I doubt anything like that even exists here.

SO JEALOUS!!!

Wow Carrie!!! It looks amazing! You must be so stoked!!!!!!!!!! Good for you.

That's gorgeous Carrie...I want to visit! I'll bring some graphs...

ummmmmm..... carrie.... where's my room?

WOW! Love the exposed brick wall, it looks so beautiful! What a wonderful space. Is there a shooting studio hidden in the middle?

Carrie, that looks incredible. So much character and class.

Please post more when you get all situated.

Thanks!!

Ok, the layout is funny, kinda... old buildings always are! But, down the long hall that you can see, there's another hall to the left at the end, then another itty bitty hall back to the right, and it opens, finally, into my 800 sq ft. shooting room! (And then another CRAZY room in the back, but we don't go in there very often. Nope.
The rooms you can see in the middle of the 2nd picture include our office manager's office, mine & Phil's joined office, the viewing room, and our kids' lounge room.

Carrie- I LOVE it! What an awesome place!

Fantastic, i love the look. Great find, congrats. I hope that it does so well for you.

Looks great. I like that brick wall A LOT!

grogeous! homey!! wow!

OH MY GOSH! I am SUPER jealous. It is gorgeous!

Amazing.

+1
great job!

So much personality. I LOVE it! It's beautiful.

Oh WOW.... I'd be hangin out playin poker into the wee hours of the night too (if I knew how to play poker!) Any excuse to hang around! Can't wait to see it in person!!!

What an awesome studio!! It looks great!

Are you kidding me? That wall is DREAMY! What a beautiful place! Oh gosh, I can't wait for the day I can have one. Thank you so much for posting these! It's such inspiration!

Wow! Gorgeous!

Killer studio -- you must be stoked!

woo hoo! Its gorgeous and worth all the hard work you and phil have put into it! I'm almost done with mine as well!

Isn't it the little things that are left that seem like they take forever and are the hardest to get done!

I'll have to post when we're done too!

Congratulations!

Oh and hopefully you'll not have any more skink issues! LOL

That's so gorgeous and the style is so you, I love love love it!

What an awesome studio. I really love your color choices and of course the old brick wall gives it so much characture. Who even needs a studio when you've got the killer combination of Couch, brick wall and lots of natural light
Congrats!

congratulations carrie! stunning!

you've earned it.

WOW WOW!

Absolutely gorgeous, and so you!

Carrie-
that is so awesome!!


congratulations-
what an accomplishment!

lisa

THAT PLACE LOOKS AMAZING! really, so great! If I were a client, I think I'd be in love the moment I saw those exposed bricks...my kinda place!

Wow... It's perfect!

Holy CRAP Carrie!!!!!! That place is AWESOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME!!!!!!!!! I'm so so so so jealous (and I have a studio!) Love love love love love the brick, the colors, the photos, you ROCK!

XOXO, Sarah Q

Yowza! Beautiful studio, Carrie!

WOW! Your space is amazing. I love everything about it. The colors, the walls, the lighting. Excellent.

WOW WOW WOW !!!! show us more pics!!!! Love it carrie....did you do the brick wall or was it already exposed like that? Thats awesome!

WOWZERS!! Love the layout and the walls!!! Awesome place!!!

Seriously ... that is AWESOME! I am with everyone else and am JEALOUS! Makes me want to have a studio ... but then I'd have to do enough sessions to pay the bills for it!

Love the exposed brick and walls!

What a great space and the exposed brick... sweet!

WOW!!! I LOVE it!!! And that exposed brick....seriously love it!

The brick is awesome but I really love how you left the plaster with the exposed brick at the entrance. It makes me relax just looking at it…probably a good effect to have on clients!

WOW! I would love to work there!

If I was a potential customer I would hire you just for having an ultra-awesome studio like that!

Tell us the story of how you got there! Beautiful. Ain't it nice to realize your dreams?

That's seriously the most perfect studio I have ever seen. You have NO idea how green with envy I am right now! It's so perfect, Carrie! and SO YOU! I am so so so so so happy for you

AWESOME!

Thats totally awesome Carrie!!! And I thought this was the old thread you posted a couple of months ago and didnt go look...what a dummy

Thanks so much, everybody!!

The bricks: We discovered under the plaster... I thought they would be there, but we had no idea about what shape they'd be in, so it was a slow process, hoping the whole time that we wouldn't uncover any structural problems while we chiseled away at that OLD plaster. We just sort of let the big chunks fall off haphazardly until I stepped back and said STOP! Then we left it the heck alone, LOL!

There are actually 5 rooms in the building that have smaller exposed brick areas, and we'll prolly expand the exposed places as we go. I didn't wanna go overboard.

The story of how we bought the building is pretty neat, and wild... I was just randomly searching the local ILS realty listings website, and I saw this old brick building, in our historic down-town area, and the price was listed at $49,000.
All of the available buildings on the square are at least $100,000, even for smaller ones, so I figured that the price must be wrong. I called my realtor, and told her that I'd like to see the place, and that I thought they must have the price wrong on the listing. She said she'd ask the listing agent about the correct price and call me in a few hours. 30 minutes later, she called with the news, "Ben said that he debated with the sellers, and they decided that their bottom line price would HAVE to be $35,000..."

We put in an offer that day, and got the 2000sq ft building for $35,000. w00t!

That first shot literally made my jaw drop! I LOVE that wall!!!!!!!

I think you are going to have brides asking to get ready in that bathroom! I don't think i'd want to leave it! Well, that goes for the whole space really... it's amazing!

Woooooooooowww!!!!!! Amazing, Carrie. Absolutely stunningly beautiful! Congratulations!!

Carrie and Phil: it's beautiful, classy, and couldn't have happened to better people.

Congrats on your hard work. We knew you could do it!

Wowza! That is so cool! I bet you're lovin' working in that atmosphere!

WOW!!! What an amazing story.... I don't even what to say how "LUCKY", its seems like there was more involved than luck! Awesome!