I would love to help make the Space look better - much better. We have the 10x10 and Maker Made fair coming up. Every week we host guests on Thursdays and other days.
Suite #104 looks… well used. All the walls are dirty. Every square foot of carpet is stained.
Walking into CA or Interactive is such a breathe of beauty.
We are losing members faster than gaining. So for a PR, and really a community perspective - Let’s make the investment in curb appeal - and really - long lasting appeal. Let’s pick it up and present a PRO face to the public.
i suggest the same laminate for the halls and rooms as CA and Interactive, and fresh paint - )Please a pro paint that is easy to clean and less grabby of dirt.)
i volunteer to blue tape the edges and swing a brush and a roller.
After the great CA flooring debacle of 2019 I strongly discourage ripping up any more carpet. But a good cleaning could do wonders.
Please go a step further and gather measurements and price out paint cost and submit to the board if you believe this would help.
At some point in the near future we are going to have to address the floors of 104. There’s a big rip in the carpet in the lecture hall and yes on Saturday I noticed there’s part of a tile missing down in purple. I don’t know if this is the top thing to do but it needs to be on the horizon of things were going to have to address in the near future.
We do need to do something about making the place look like it is a creative place not some cubicle Farm. Now that’s going to take some people helping. We also need to do things to encourage Community again. I have not been round as much last few months due to my mundane life but the times I’ve been there the common room is well nothing’s going on there. Used to be full of life now he isn’t. Saturday Astrid had a serger Workshop that went on for several hours and I felt community in there as people wondered and checked on things saw what we were doing that felt like the old DMs. When
I’ve never actually priced them but would carpet tiles be a reasonable option on flooring? I know offices tend to use them because if one gets trashed you don’t have to rip out all the carpet to replace a single section but I don’t know the $$$ end of it.
Well given the way most floors are treated, nothing will stand up to spilled paint/inks, acetone and other solvents. Carpet just collects spills and laminate is fine as long as you don’t have high abrasion activities. Polished concrete holds up well, it is just ugly unless you stain and seal it, very spendy $$$. Looks like the Creative Arts Guild just has concrete in their spaces.
Not leaving computers, cables and keyboards setup in the common room would help. As well as returning classrooms to a set state when done.
I’m short on time but keep me updated on timeframes or projects and I’ll do what I can.
I mocked up a plan for the CA room that was really fun and would be minimal in cost based on stages of design thinking (ya I know it’s awesome)- brainstorm wall and all sorts of interesting bits an pieces including some graphic faux grass. I’ll shine that back up and pitch it to peoples. @MellissaRhodes@danielle_burbidge@cmcooper0 down for a bit of brainstom/transform?
Laminate is not as sturdy as I originally thought, and it isn’t waterproof. I’ve had better success with waterproof vinyl flooring, which IMHO looks better over time, is cheaper, and can be mopped.
Carpet tiles can work better since they can be vaccuumed, but vinyl flooring can’t be vacuumed.
The lecture hall is gross. The carpets are bad, the lighting is dim, and there’s a “Welcome to the Dungeon” sign in there. I’d love to see a face lift in there.
For anyone who doesnt remember or didnt participate in the flooring debacle of 2019, I have photos. It took several days to rip up the floor and hundreds of dollars in degunker and other supplies to break down the past tenants flooring misdeeds. It left that area unusable for over a month and we had to pay another few thousand for floor leveling. There were tears and blood shed. I’m just saying it may be something needed for the future, but maybe after expansion into 102 is complete.
By all means submit a bid to the board. CA used their own budget for $4700. Education and PR no longer have their own budgets so it would need to come from the general fund.
