Greg Staples

Dream space The comic artist and illustrator tells us how he planned out a studio for all occasions

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I've been working in this studio for around three years now, and I feel pretty lucky to own it. My previous studio was a loft I converted, but it was a relatively compact space.

My wife and I walked past this house often and then saw it up for sale. We'd always admired it, partly because of its size, privacy and history, but for me I always loved the look of the outside studio, which had a twisty staircase on the exterior of the house leading up to it. At the time it was being rented as a studio apartment, before that it was an Airbnb, and even earlier was used as a full-size snooker room.

I've loved working with Macs for many years. I find they work in unison with my creativity. Following a battle to the finish we got the house, and after moving in I got to work planning the layout of the studio I wanted to create in. My aim was for it to be a very functional working studio with separate areas for the various mediums.