Our New Craft Room - A Photo Tour

We still have some work to do on our new family craft room, but it's now presentable enough to share it with you.  This new room is on our third floor.  Our house is more than 100 years old, and the plaster was very rough.  We didn't have the time or money to gut it, so my hubby did patch plastering, sanded, skim coated, and sanded it again.  We used heavy-duty primer and gave the whole room a couple coats of semi-gloss paint.  (The paint is "Wind Blown" from Ace Hardware's Premier Paint collection.)

The Main Scrapping Area:

I've gotten a lot of mileage out of the yellow desk & the old dinette set over the years. 

 Another View of the Scrapping Table with My Counter in the Background:

Since most of the walls are sloped in this room, I don't have the wall space I had in my old room.  I had to re-think some of my storage.

New Expedit Shelf & (not so new) Sewing Cabinet:

The Expedit shelf is one of the few new things we purchased for the room.  My mum got me the two-drawer card catalog and the Standard stamp holder at a local antique shop.  I'm keeping finished cards in one drawer and mat stacks in the other.  It's perfect!

My Counter:

My husband built the wall behind the counter.  This area was all open before.  He made an 8' x 10' foot storage room with built-in shelves and walled it in.  The door to the right of the counter leads to the storage room, where we keep all of our seasonal items.  We still need to paint the door, and when it's done, I'll hang my Cricut cartridge storage on it. 

Paper Tower:

The only annoying feature in this room is the huge chimney in the middle of it.  I'm sure I'll get used to it soon, though. Eventually we are going to carpet the room.  I'm considering carpet tiles, so an area easily can be replaced if it gets damaged.

Additional Shelving:

I keep photo storage boxes and my crafting "go bag" here.  The door to the right of the shelving leads to our walk-in cedar closet.

Kids' Drawing Table:

It didn't take long for the kids to get settled in to their own spaces.


Kids' Nook:

Shannon quickly claimed this dormer area as her own.  These windows are original to the house and are very drafty.  We're hoping to replace them before winter arrives.

Thanks for stopping by my new craft room today!

Hugs,
Marcy

A Clean Counter & New Storage!

Woohoo! It's been three years since the creation of our family craft room, and we finally settled on a storage solution for under my work counter.

While I love wood and antiques, for a family-friendly craft room, we decided on storage and furniture that was easy to clean and could be repurposed for other things some day.

We bought these three Sterilite three-drawer units at our local Trader Horn. They are a perfect fit, with about a half-inch of width to spare on each side, and about three inches of space on top of each unit to store my cutting mat, Scor-Pal, and foam stamping pad.

These units are very sturdy with deep, wide drawers and plenty of space for lots of scramping goodies.

The other storage items you see here from left to right are: a Closet Maid cabinet where I keep things I don't want the kiddos to get into, like Glimmer Mist, reinkers, acrylic paint, Stickles, embossing powders, and cleaners; hardware storage drawers for small embellishments like brads, eyelets, buckles, etc.; vintage canning jars with ribbon scraps; metal tool box with scissors and various adhesives; Sterilite drawers with inkpads, diecuts, and chipboard; red cast iron utensil caddy with Sharpies; and finally, Sterilite drawers with 12x12 patterned paper organized by theme and/or manufacturer (my Tonic paper trimmers also are on top of these units - well out of reach of lil' fingers.)

So, that's a little corner of my happy space! Thanks for coming to visit today!