Thursday, July 7, 2011

Craft Room Clean-up, v2

I cleaned up my craft room once, back when we were still apartment dwellers.  But since we're now in a house, I've got to step up my game and create a longer term solution for the "stuffs".

The chaotic before:


The goal was simply to make the room more organized, and less visually confusing. 

And though I could have just found matching boxes for all my supplies, I thought it would be cheaper if I just "hid" it all.

I bought a KVARTAL curtain system from IKEA, and used leftover fabric to make three panels. Penga-Dad helped me install the slider-thing to the ceiling, right in front of all my craft cubes.
Instantly hidden!
The panels slide back and forth for easy craft-access.
Next, we had a wobbly white mini-stand which was so unstable it was pretty much useless.

To give Wobble some more support, I cut out some cardboard, covered it in wrapping paper, and stapled it to the back of the stand.





A little red pizazz and no more wobble!

Since I had some office supplies in lidless cardboard boxes (two halves of a shoebox, really), Sak origami'ed some lids for me.



And lastly, I cleaned up all my crap!




Cleaner! Though I will eventually hang up some pictures and figure out how window treatments work, I feel like I have space to think now, which is good!  Plus, if we ever put a guest bed (murrrphhhyyy!) on the other side of the room (currently an empty wall), visitors won't have to worry about my "hobbies" attacking them like closet monsters in the night!

6 comments:

  1. I love how a simple change makes such a big difference!

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  2. Looks good! This is such a creative solution :)

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  3. Love the curtain thingies! Looks very nice and non-cluttered.

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  4. Hiding stuff sounds like the best solution ever! Just pull the curtains and it's ready for guests to view :)

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  5. Can Penga-Dad come over and install things like that for me? I absolutely love that idea! Love your new house :)

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  6. ohhh I love the leftover photobooth cloth, you really keep all the good stuff well :)

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