Decisions

[shebreathes]

In my new apartment, that I will show pictures of, I have a service porch that is suppose to be used as laundry room BUT I am thinking of setting it up as a darkroom

Comments

[revjim]

I've built a darkroom many times before. But always in a window-less spare bathroom. Even then, I would put weather stripping on all the seals, a big roll of cloth at the bottom of the door, hang a thick material outside of the door, and only develop at night with all of the lights in the place off. Even then, my darkroom was not light tight. If I waited long enough, I could still see my hand in front of my face.

You'd have to do a lot of work to seal off any visible light. Plywood is cheap and would work fine for this, but you'd want to use weather stripping to cover all of the seams.

[forever_adrift]

I built a darkroom back in the 80s in the basement of the house i was living in. Not sure if it would be easy where you described. might be hard to seal off all the light. In the basement it was a little easier for me since there was no windows, and we made a pocket door so it would seal tight too. does it have a drain?

[ex_lotusmant250]

do it do it do it!!!
youll thank yourself for it later~
:)

[ex_lotusmant250]

oh. oops.
i dont know much about the particulars of building a darkroom...
would it be too difficult to seal it off?

[theunquietnight]

I say give it a shot. I don't think it would be too difficult.

What about the washer and dryer? LOL.

Does the porch have lighting?

[inner_i]

the few times i've worked in a darkroom, i've also been in window-less environments. that's not to say that it wouldn't work otherwise. perhaps investing in numerous black/dark heavy drapes could do the trick, at least in the short term? you could get a heavy-duty stapler at home depot and support the drapes that way. this wouldn't exactly be cheap either, but most likely cheaper than putting up walls.

you may actually be able to get a few pieces of dry wall at home depot and put those up. that might not be too expensive either.

i know how much you'd love for this to work out, so i say def give it a shot.