Burrow Sweet Burrow | Grazia's Garage

Grazia's personal workshop takes up the entirety of the garage of the home she shares with Ikavod. Despite it being a large garage that should in theory have enough space for both buns to have their own side of the garage, Grazia has taken over the entire space for herself. The only thing that isn't technically her own is Ikavod's car, and even then- she was the one who bought that car, so she was technically the owner and just allowed her beloved husband to use it and keep his work supplies in there.

The garage itself had a high roof that would allow any oversized truck to fit into the space should that be needed, the indoor paint job wasn't fantastic, it didn't need to be. Instead the walls were a solid white color with small bumps appearing under the paint. Some of those bumps were nails that had been painted over, others came to be due to a natural bubbling of the paint when it had been wet. The floors were concrete, but unlike the concrete outside of the garage, the floor was smoothed out and in one solid section. There were plenty of stains on the ground as well, ranging from dark spots of dried oil to larger colorful splotches of paint. That mostly came from her husband, who sometimes used her garage in order to do some painting should the desire ever come over him. She didn't mind it- in fact she actively avoided cleaning up the spots due to it reminding her of her husband and how cute he could be at times. The garage door was like any other, no particular surprises there, the only thing of note being that the inside of the door was much cleaner than the outside- though she made sure that it was always clean enough to avoid pests. She always hated scattering wild remil into dust whenever they tried to dig into her garage, but it was a necessary evil- it wasn't like she could tame them anyways. 

The door to the rest of the house had been Ikavod's choice, a nice solid wooden door that had a white coat of paint to match the walls and was spotless on both ends. The door also had a small window in order to see inside the house from the garage and vice-versa. Sometimes Ikavod would end up peeking through the window late at night when he swore he heard something in the garage, and while Grazia could understand his worries, it also made her hate the window sometimes. In fact, when she had free time, she should make some blinds for it, just to discourage Ikavod from fretting over whatever creatures walked into their garage too much.

In the middle of the area were the two cars of the household, which Grazia considered important pieces of the room. Her own car was a large flatbed truck with peeling white paint. There were obvious signs that there had been attempts to clean off the truck, but the amount of coated stains across the bottom of the vehicle was enough to show that didn't work out well. The back of the truck was clean, but full of different boxes that Grazia took wherever she went. Most of them were emergency replacement parts for normal household appliances- good for when she came to a client and their machines needed a bit more than a few tweaks with her wrench. Despite that, there was enough room for her to place a mattress. The Mattress was the cleanest thing on the car, to be entirely honest- but that was because it was where she and her husband would lay if they wanted to drive out into the wilderness and stare at the sparkles of the crystals in the night sky. The other car was a black minivan. It was honestly kind of ominous, if Grazia had to be honest- but, it had its uses, and her husband liked it, so who was she to really judge? It was also exceedingly clean- she was sure that even if the car was a bright pink or white like the truck, there would still be no spots on the metal. 

Around the cars were various workstations that she used for all sorts of things, not all relating to her mechanic work, surprisingly. They were organized in such a fashion to where most of the tools from one station could be used in the next one over- starting with her general repair station. It was mostly for small objects- though the repair section did blend in slightly with the bigger repair station next to it that was meant for repairing the cars or sometimes trying to figure out what was wrong with some of the bigger appliances. Some spare tired hung above that section, secured heavily to the wall to make sure that they didn't fall. Besides that was an organization station more than anything else, with a giant set of file cabinets where she put all the different tools that didn't have a specific station connected to it. That also included a lot of the tools for extremely specific types of art that her husband had tried to get into a few times. Her personal favorite of that one was the file drawer dedicated to glass cutting. If she had a gentler touch, she'd probably try it out herself. But she didn't exactly want to try and end up cleaning glass shards off of her floor for hours on end. The very end of the drawers had all of her assorted hammers, meant for all kinds of things- she didn't even know how many hammers she had in total, though it was safe to say it was over a hundred. To keep things organized, that meant that the tasks needing hammers the most were right next to each other on the right of the sorting station.

This somehow lead to her woodworking station being right next to her metalworking station. The Woodworking station has a few custom carvings that she had made on the wall above it, mostly being crude depictions of herself and her husband- but there was also some where she attempted to carve out the shame of a car or some other cool vehicle. Similarly, above the metalworking station there hung one of her favorite pieces of decorative metalwork. Arguably it would be considered forging, because the item in question was a full iron sword, but the forge she had was actually outside, and there wasn't a wall for her to hang it up on.

 She made sure that the furnace under the metalworking station was far enough so that anything sitting on the shelves under the Woodworking station wouldn't start burning. That furnace was also right next to the small kiln that she had under her pottery station, almost touching together from how closely they were placed. Yes, she did pottery sometimes- mostly to make gifts for her husband, but also sometimes to make her own coffee cups when she ended up breaking the ones that were bought from the store. Above this area was a giant chart showing the different colors that the glazes she had turned into after going into the kiln. It was especially important for her to remember seeing as he had a few that would do odd things after being applied to a piece. On the other side of the pottery station was a drying rack- both used for pottery and the paintings that would be made by the painting station right next to it, which was mostly for her husband's use- but she used it sometimes as well. Unsurprisingly, above the paint station was some of the things that both she and her husband had painted. It was very easy to see who drew what. Ikavod's paintings were mostly landscapes and highly detailed portraits of Grazia... while Grazia's paintings were more crude depictions of cars and also attempts at drawing her and Ikavod kissing. It at least looked a little better than scribbling on a piece of paper... 

Of course, these two stations needed a place to put their Liquid-like supplies, and that's where the wooden cabinets came in. There were a total of three, only being able to be told apart by the stickers that Grazia had slapped on top of them. The first cabinet had a sticker with a pot on it, which symbolized that it was the Glaze Cabinet. Were it not for her husband's intervention, the cabinet would most likely be a mess of pots, but thankfully he was able to make it easy for her to organize. Each shelf had a collection of different stickers that showed ranges of colors. The top shelf was for colors ranging from red to yellow, the second shelf was for ranges of green to blue, the third shelf was for pinks and purples, and the bottom shelf was for white, black, and special colors of Glaze. The Paint Cabinet, marked out with a picture of a paintbrush, was organized similarly, except there were also column-based organization stickers that pointed out what kind of paint they were. Those were added after Grazia learned that Acrylic and Water Colors don't mix... which was an entire ordeal she would rather not repeat. The final cabinet, labeled with a question mark, was for any other liquid-based materials that Grazia would need. This was the one that ended up being kind of messy, seeing as it was rather hard to try and organize clear glaze and wood varnish along with car oil and window cleaner. 

It was rather impressive all things considered... even if it did always smell like chemicals and oil.