my new craft room!

Happy Friday!!

I have cherished these last two weeks...not only because of the Christmas season, but also because my two kids have had their Winter Break off from school. And to make things even better, my husband was also able to take some time off, too! With these lazy days I have enjoyed sleeping in, spending time with family, relaxing, watching movies, organizing, cleaning (OK, maybe that's a stretch), but best of all getting started on my craft room makeover!!

I have been wanting to make over my craft room for a very long time now and after realizing that my hubby had some time off after Christmas, I thought this would be the perfect week to get it done. Because, let's face it - I needed his help!

I am lucky enough to have my own little 10x10 room filled with all of my crafting goodies and it has definitely changed its look throughout the 2 1/2 years we have lived in this house. Usually it's just me re-organizing this and that, cleaning, re-organizing, and then cleaning again. But it has NEVER been painted (we are the third owners of this house and this room still had the original flat paint from when it was built). I was also realizing how little space I had to work on my craft projects, so I knew that needed to change. However, I still wanted to keep my desk, so I separated my craft working space and my business work space. I LOVE how it turned out. And, although there are still a few things I'd like to do, I didn't want to put off any longer sharing with you my new space!

I really wanted to show you some before and after pictures, but many of my before pictures were taken awhile ago so it really didn't reflect the "right before". We got started on the project so quickly that I didn't think to take pictures before we cleared out the room! But, I did want you to have some sort of idea of what the room looked like, so here are a couple that might give you an idea...

BEFORE

{standing in the doorway}

 

BEFORE

{my tiny little space to work}

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 Welcome to my new craft room!!

You will notice that I like clean lines and not much clutter. I didn't fill every corner of this room, but there are a lot of things "tucked away" out of sight. The color I chose for the walls is called Teal Zeal from Home Depots' Behr paint line.

I had this fun vinyl from last year's Sale-A-Bration, so I decided to put it on the craft room door because my craft room really does feel like my "home sweet home"! It's the place I go to use my creative juices and {most of the time} a place where I can de-stress.

When you first walk into the room through the doorway and turn to the RIGHT, you now see this. Last year I had taken the doors off of my closet and replaced it with this curtain (which was the inspiration for the color I chose to paint the walls) to have easy access to all of the things "hiding" away in there.

I kept my original desk because I love it so much and I wanted to have a separate space to work on my Stampin' Up! business stuff. Thankfully we had an extra computer I could use!! I added a shelf for a card display. Eventually, I might add a wall vinyl or a clock above the shelf to fill up the empty space.

One of my new fun purchases...love this lamp!

Continuing in a circle, next you will see my window which not only got new blinds, but my mom made me a valance using some leftover fabric from the curtains. I kind of wanted to leave the space underneath the window clean and without anything, but I quickly realized I needed some more storage space and a place to put my Cricut, so I rearranged some things in the kids' play room and took this cube organizer. It worked perfectly.

I've had this great hutch since moving into our house (found it in the Ikea "as is" section!) and it has been awesome for so much of my crafting storage. This is where my die cut station is and where I have my wood mount stamps stored. To the left of the hutch is my 12x12 DSP rack. More details on my paper storage can be found in a post I originally shared here.

I love my DVD racks which store my clear mount stamp sets perfectly, as well as my Framelits (which I put into clear mount cases). You can find thess for very inexpensive at Ikea. In the previous picture you will see they also hold my Original and Bigz dies.

And, now my favorite part of the room!! This is my new workspace!! Soon there will be a chair there, but I'm still on the hunt for the "right one".

The table is long and everything is within reach...exactly what I wanted! **Updated to add: The tabletop I purchased from Ikea. It is the 6-1/2 foot length. It comes in many different sizes. I wanted something already done (with laminate top), so I opted for not doing it myself! ;) I will eventually add a picture of my kiddos on either side of the shelf to get rid of the empty wall space above the punch storage.

I will be happy to answer any questions you have about my new space. I didn't take the time to take up close pictures of where I keep everything, but if people are interested I may do that in the future, so leave a comment to let me know if that's something you'd like to see. I figure I just wanted to get the overall pictures posted before it was too late!

Now that my room is put back together I hope to be able to actually start stamping again! Lots of fun things and events on the horizon!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!