Makeover Tuesday- 古坑民宿「田心12號」工作室 Fyntage Studio

 古坑民宿「田心12號」這間側屋的年代比主屋更久遠，是爸媽當年結婚時才將豬舍改建成新房。而拿來當工作室的這間，就是我們家的房間。我腦中還有一家四口睡在這張通舖的印象，那時候小妹Fyn還沒出生，我和大妹Mimi也都還小。床鋪上一定有蚊帳，因為古早的窗戶並沒有紗窗，還有一台綠色鐵製的古董風扇，小時候睡覺時還曾經不小心把腳指頭伸進去切到指甲。床底下總是陰暗暗的好像很恐怖，童年的我從來不知道裡面有什麼，除了一只紅色的尿桶。夜半時想如廁，媽媽就把尿桶拿出來，讓我們在房裡上廁所，蓋上蓋子，第二天早上再拿出去沖掉。

當時還是土角厝的主屋，在民國75年被怪颱韋恩颱風刮走屋頂，損失慘重只好忍痛拆掉，重建樓房。水泥樓房蓋好之後，生活起居都移往新屋，側屋這邊就逐漸成為儲藏室。如同很多中生代家庭一樣，在都市裡用不到的東西也一點一點搬回鄉下老家，東西就越積越多。

為了改成小妹的工作室，除了認真將雜物整理丟棄之外，牆角裂痕也一一封補。長大後的我們也終於敢一窺通舖床底下的世界，把阿嬤收藏的棧板、木板等物件都清空。接著把爸爸的超大辦公桌搬進來，拆解阿祖壞掉的裁縫車架上小妹的電動裁縫機，小妹的自創品牌Fyntage古著衣間工作室就在此誕生！

The side house of Sweet House No.12, the finest B&B in Gukeng, Yunlin, is much older than the existing main house. It was rebuilt from a piggery to a bungalow house for my parents' wedding. The studio room was our family bedroom then. I still have the memory of 4 of my family sleeping in this room in my head, my younger sister (Mimi) and I were very little, baby sister (Fyn) hasn't born yet. There was always a mosquito net over the bed (no window screen back that time), a green iron-made fan at the corner, and a red potty pan under the bed. I remember that mom had used to let us urinate in the pan when we needed to go in the middle of night, then flushed it away the next morning.

The original main house was made by soil with straw, the tile roof was blown away by Typhoon Wayne in 1986, so we had to torn it down and built a concrete one. After then, the side house became a storeroom for decades.

In order to transform the room into Fyn's studio, we organized those piled stuffs and sealed the wall cracks. Moved in dad's old office desk, assembled great grandma's broken sawing machine with Fyn's electronic one, and "Fyntage Studio" has been successfully established!