A new craft room!

If you're like me, you have an unused room in your house that becomes the dumping ground for all things that don't have a place. Storage center, filing cabinet, winter coat closet - these are all apt descriptions of how that room was being used. My husband and I both agreed it should become something functional - and would be my space. (since hubby just got a pretty sweet man cave in the basement)

What did I decide to do with it? Make a craft room of course. Truth be told, I really wanted a room to wrap presents - with one of those handy wall racks for hanging rolls of colorful paper. And I wanted a counter height table for wrapping, so I wouldn't spend one more Christmas even hunched over the bed, wrapping gifts with an aching back. 

I had a vision in my head of what I wanted, the color scheme, etc. It's a small room, so it didn't take more than about a week and a trip to Home Depot to make a reality.

This is probably my favorite part of the room - this pegboard wall with the wrapping supplies. We simply bought two pieces of pegboard and drilled them onto the wall.

I made this craft table and it was super easy! I bought two cube shelves, which form the sides of the table. They sell these at Home Depot - they are 36" wide and the same exact width of the hollow door that formed the top of the table (also purchased from Home Depot). We used a saw and cut the door down to a good size, so that I could easily walk around the table with plenty of space. I painted and stenciled the unfinished door, and attached it to the cube shelves with Liquid Nails adhesive.

I had an old brown wooden book shelf, and just painted it with Annie Sloan chalk paint in Paris Grey. The yellow is just sheets of scrap book paper decoupaged on the back. 

A grey linen-wrapped memo board holds items of inspiration, and the white shelves on the left house paint. Furniture painting will not happen in this room, thus big cans are still stored in the garage.

My french chair makeover has found its home! It's been sitting for a year in my living room, but the grey and yellow are perfect for this room. I shoved a grey-topped IKEA desk into the closet (and took the doors off). Now I have a great place to surf Pinterest!

Isn't this rhino fun? I found him at HomeGoods, and new he would make a great addition. And I can hang my apron over his horn!

Now you can see the sewing machine, notions and gift bags all shoved down in the bottom!

I've had a lot of questions about these frames. They came from HomeGoods. But man, they would be easy to make. They're just grey-washed boards glued together. The white is foam core, with a small little piece of plastic covering the photos, with screws holding the images in place!

My wonderful neighbor Tara Sutherland took these family photos. What fun!

So there you have it - my new craft room. So far, I've made Valentine's day keychains in this room, and wrapped a couple of gifts. But, I'm awaiting a craft kit in the mail and will work on it in this space too. More photos to come!