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Just to clarify, my darkroom is a converted upstairs bedroom, with no running water. I have a solid desk I drilled holes into for the enlarger, and set up a couple of folding tables for my trays, paper cutter, and put up cheap shelves for my other supplies. I use a large plastic storage bin as a water holding bath; at the end of a printing session I carry the prints downstairs and use my print washer in the kitchen sink. Two small wall-mounted safelights hang over the table for my trays; my larger safelights hang from small chains looped from small wooden towel racks I mounted up by the ceiling. I have taped large black pastic garbage bags a few layers thick over my windows. It's a funny-looking place, all right, and I'm deliriously happy in there. :mrgreen:Reading this makes me feel a bit nostalgic and a bit sad .... I gave all my darkroom stuff to the local school a couple years ago, after moving to a part of the country (long before that) where noone has a basement for Pete's sake ........ Also, when I had my own fairly loaded basement darkroom I was a bachelor with the time and means to fully indulge myself - life has changed in many ways, which I don't otherwise regret.
No, I shall be strong and stride forth bravely into the crisp, slightly chill and thin air that characterizes the Digital Age, without noticing when a gentle whiff of thio passes on the breeze. How I loved the smell of the place downstairs, but then I am an organic chemist/biochemist by training .........
*sigh*
Charles.
Digital just ain't where soul is, baby.