You need a way to ventilate the entire area. Can't have too much good air. Also heating and cooling.
George
>From: "Best, Dianne" <dbest@hydro.mb.ca>
>Date: Fri Apr 22 13:21:50 CDT 2005
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Dream Darkroom!! (Questions)
>MessageMy present darkroom is a small bedroom on the main floor http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/calamityjanecanary/Darkroom2.jpg It has served me well but I need the space so I am planning to move my darkroom to the basement within the next year so The basement will provide ALOT more room and also accommodate a light-trap entrance so my assistant (a Bloodhound) can come and go without letting in the light. The easiest way to light-proof the basement is to do the entire space (1 door and 2 windows), so I'll have lots of room, about 18x35 feet, (shared with the furnace, water pump, laundry, etc.) One end of the basement has a "cold room", about 6x10 feet with shelves on two walls where preserves were stored - that will become a storage room for chemicals and such. I have space along one wall that is about 16 feet long and I was planning to use a 2x8' space for a dry side and the other 2x8 for wet side (one LONG sink with removable covers). I also have a room about 10 by 14 feet (no door) next to the cold room that I am thinking of using for an "exposure room" so I can do exposures without having stray light in the darkroom. I think I have all the bases covered as far as the conventional darkroom but since I have drifted into Tintypes and POP prints, I can foresee getting into more "alternative" photography and I am wondering what additional features I should plan into my darkroom design for the alternate processes. Since I am fairly new to the alternatives, I thought the people on the List might have more ideas. This will be my "dream darkroom", probably the last one I will have before "the old fart's home" so I want to do it right! What should be in an alternative darkroom that gets forgotten? Calamity Jane(aka Dianne Best)
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