Craft room tour & source list

I'm excited to be back and blogging again, this is my first blog post in almost a year. I've spent the past year working on my Etsy shop, and of course doing home interior projects.

 I am looking forward to blogging more often and sharing what I've been up to. A big change that I recently made was renaming this blog (previously home happy home) to match my Etsy shop. It just made sense to have everything more cohesive. I'm also attempting to upgrade the look of my blog which is challenging for me since I'm not tech savvy.

I figured I would start off with a little tour of my craft room and a source list to help anyone who is in the process of shopping, decorating, etc.

This side of my craft room is where I have my computer desk and do all my shipping, bills, paperwork, etc. 

My desk is the Linnmon model with Alex drawers from Ikea (link)

The chairs are Ingolf models from Ikea (link)

Shelves are also from Ikea. Brackets are inexpensive plastic Ekby Stodis that I spray painted gold (link) White shelves are Ekby Osten (link)

Bulletin board is from Hobby Lobby

Artwork and photo boxes also from Hobby Lobby

Office and Create sign were DIY

This little corner is functional and pretty to look at. It holds items that I don't use as often and some fun pieces.

The shelf is the Ikea Hyllis, it is a steal at $14.99. I spray painted mine gold and added the wood shelves which I painted white. (link)

Photo boxes, large storage boxes, and gumball machine are all from Hobby Lobby

Curtains are Threshold from Target (no longer available)

This is what I consider my crafting corner. I paint, scrapbook, make banners, anything crafty happens over here. I also store my many filled scrapbook albums over here (yes they are all filled). 

My craft cart is the Raskog utility cart from Ikea (link) I could no longer find it in this color, but I've seen similar ones at Michael's (link)

I purchased my desk and cubby system at Ikea years ago. The exact model is no longer available, but it is similar to the Kallax workstation (link)

The large cubby system is similar to the Kallax shelf unit (link)

Wall shelf and storage jars were from Michael's years ago. I found this similar one on Amazon (link)

White storage boxes from Ikea fit perfectly (link)

 I hope you enjoyed my craft room tour. Let me know if you would like a more detailed look at how I organize my space or a video tour.

Thanks for stopping by!

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A look at my craft room/office

My craft room and office area is in what used to be our formal living room. It is the first room you see when you walk in our front door and is connected to our formal dining room. Last January I made the switch from formal room to functional room and moved all my scrapbooking and crafting supplies here. You can read all about that here.

I was in love with the crafting side of the room, but the sitting/reading side of the room was still blah. That mainly had to do with our fourteen year old sofa. Last month I finally got around to selling it on craigslist and purchased the Ikea ektorp sofa {you can read about that here}.

The room is now what I would consider finished {for the most part} and I am thrilled to share it with you today.

This is the view from our front door.

I love my bright yellow side table a craigslist diy project and the framed photo of our first home.

This little table was a garage sale find.

This is the view from our dining room. I brought in my painted stripe curtains from the family room.

Another view from our dining room. You can see my craft space tucked into the corner and our entryway. 

My favorite part of our entire house!

This room was a long time in the making, but I'm glad to have a space that my family and I will actually use. I spend a lot of time at my desk on my computer or crafting. The sofa is the perfect spot to sit and read, and my girls like to sit at the coffee table and do homework and craft as well. 

Thanks for coming by!

Amy

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Office clutter and a new gallery wall

Last Wednesday my kids all returned to school! My son started his freshman year in high school which had me a little nervous {my little man in that big school with all those big kids}. I have one daughter in middle school {7th grade} and my baby is in her last year of elementary school {5th grade}. Of course I was waiting at the door when each one arrived home to grill them about their day! As usual everything went great...no one got lost finding their classrooms, all lockers were opened with ease. So now that we are in week two I can relax a bit knowing they are fine. I guess it just goes to show that no matter how old they get us parents will never stop worrying about them. EVER!

 

 

What I really wanted to share with you today is the hot cluttered mess my office was last week! Over the summer I kind of let things slide and the clutter started to take over {which drives me crazy}.

 

You all remember what my office/craft space looked like when I first showed it to you awhile back.

 



 

It was so clean and organized, I was in love!

 

Then summer break happened and I got busy hanging out with my kids and my office became a little neglected.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was driving me insane!

 

So once the kids were back in school the first thing I did was clean out my entire desk area.

I am an organized person by nature all of my crafting supplies and paperwork have a designated area. The problem was that things laid around on my desk for a couple weeks before I had the time {or energy} to put them away. My solution was to come up with an "in transition" space.

 

 

 

 

Now all that "stuff" has a place to go until I can put it away for good. For example papers that need to be filed in the filing cabinet have a home until I file them. When I print coupons they have a home until I can cut them and get them in my coupon binder. I even made a spot for my husband and all the odd's and end's he leaves around!

 

Luckily I already had the paper trays {previously used to store my scrapbooking paper in} and I just used glue dots to attach the labels to the fronts.

 

 

I also used some small bowls to contain paper clips and push pins that were constantly getting lost.

 

And since I was on my cleaning kick I decided to hang a little gallery wall over my expedit with frames and items I already had around the house.

 

 

 

 

 

Even though my office wasn't overly messy it was bothering me {a lot}! It feels so good now to be organized again and ready for another school year!

 

Thanks for hanging out with me today for awhile!

Hope you'll come back again!

 

                                                                                                  Amy

 

 

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My new craft room

Today I'm ready to share how my new craft room is coming along. It's not completely finished, but I do have the crafting/office section set up. We moved all my Ikea expedit's upstairs and had to purchase one more for some extra storage.

So here is my new craft room in what was our formal living room. 

I used all the same Ikea furniture, but just arranged it differently to fit the space.

I did have to purchase one more small expedit because I was combining all my scrapbooking supplies plus everything that was previously in my computer armoire in the living room.

Everything is labeled so I can find things easily.

This expedit fit perfectly in front of the window. I LOVE having a crafting space with a window plus I will be able to work and keep an eye on the kids when they play out in the cul-de-sac. 

More album storage.

Some of my favorite scrapbooking and decorating reads.

I am thrilled with my new space and can't wait to finish the other side of the room. I'm still trying to sell our living room furniture and then hopefully I will be able to purchase a new sofa for the room. 

Next week I'm planning on sharing more on how I organize my crafting supplies and even opening up some of my personal scrapbooks to share with you.

Have a wonderful day!

                                                                                       Amy

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