Lets See Your Darkroom

[Nathan Potter]

It is only a dream for me

Dave

Sometimes the dreams are more pleasant than the actual events. So be of good cheer.

Nate Potter, Austin TX.

[smithdoor]

I agree with that

Sometimes the dreams are more pleasant than the actual events. So be of good cheer.

Nate Potter, Austin TX.

[John Jarosz]

I recently moved to Iowa from the Chicago area. My Chicago darkroom is in one of the earlier pages of this thread.My new darkroom is in the stone basement of an old c1910 house. I managed to recycle everything. The lions share of the work was running water and power to the new location.

The enlarger (which is primarily used as a lightsource for contact printing) is sitting on a 32x44 sink which doubles as a table when fitted with a top. The 2nd sink is handy when doing alt process (carbon). Otherwise I can do 8x20 negs and prints in the 6 foot sink.

My 2nd and last darkroom.

john

[Tin Can]

I will watch out for motorcycles, mine is right next to me in my darkroom.

I gave up on saying never again, I am on my 3rd major life change, but my first darkroom.

Looks great!

[Daniel Stone]

Hey John,
looks nice a nice, efficient use of available space. I'm a BIG fan of open shelving like what you have there, vs cupboard/filed away behind doors look. Shelves make finding things easy and relatively painless

cheers,
Dan

[alavergh]

So I haven't had a good chance to print anything on my own in a while and this is what I'm looking at using in the rental apartment. It's the second bedroom/office in our place so I'll have to cart out prints to wash them in a sink elsewhere. I've made some simple drying racks with self-assembled canvas frames and keep my timer off to the side so hopefully the glow-in-the-dark gralab timer doesn't fog anything, especially film.

I've got some 16x20 trays, but I've pretty much resigned myself to just 8x10 at the largest for now. I suppose I could squeeze out an 11x14, but I'd have to charge substantially more. Oh well. Here goes, wish me luck!

Oh, sorry for the watermark too. This photo was primarily meant for Facebook.

[DG 3313]

A look at mine.......the SCUBA tanks in the lower right corner are for my other favorite past time....

Attachment 110097

[Luis-F-S]

Do you have any issues with the safelight fogging paper that close to it? L

[DG 3313]

Nope, this light is not as bright as you might think. I've had this darkroom in service since last Summer and haven't had a problem.

Don

[David Swinnard]

A final update on the new darkroom. Today I finished unpacking the boxes that have been taking up garaged space for the last almost two years. A few small items will likely get moved about as I start to actually use the room actively, but it's close enough that I've called it done.

He are a few images of the finished product:

South and west walls with enlarger and film drying cabinet:


West and north walls with print drying rack, UV exposure unit and processing bench:


North and east walls showing other end of processing bench and left end of sink: