Someone told me a good kitchen design was small so that you didn't have to keep walking back and forward to reach things. If the same theory applies to darkrooms then this is perfect. It's only 2 metres x 2 so I can stand in the middle, extend both arms and touch the walls. I've been lucky enough to beg, borrow, make or steal a lot of good stuff, but all darkrooms are a work in progress.
1. It's built into the lean-to at the back of my office. The space once housed a laundry tub, so the taps and drain were all there. A carpenter friend built me the end wall with scrap timber. I salvaged the sliding door from a building site. Outside, the coffee machine and film/beer fridge is close by. The white cabinet is a film dryer.
2. The dry-side bench was salvaged from a commercial lab when they went digital. It's built-in light table is great for choosing and dusting negs. Salvaged air-con is installed in what used to be the window. The poly sink was donated by a photographer friend. It's 2 m long- which was how I decided where to build the end wall.
3. The small enlarger is a Durst 606, borrowed from someone who had it gathering dust in a shed. The bigger one will carry 5x7" negs. I mounted the post to the wall to save space. It's light source is a cold cathode tube housed in a home built wooden box. It's slow, but the negs don't pop either. Neg files and film/chem data sheets store on the wall shelves. I left the end wall un-lined so I could use the timber frames as shelves.
4. The plastic tub is my film wash and the office 'in-tray' rack makes for a great cascading print washer.
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