Organizing Craft Scrapbook Room Makeover

Lots of organizing ideas for Craft Scrapbook Sewing Room Makeover looking inside the cabinets.  I love having all of my scrapbook and craft goodies this organized.  I feel much more creative in a clean, organized room. 

 

Scrapbook Room Craft Sewing Studio Makeover Reveal Continues

My scrapbook room / craft / sewing studio reveal continues.  I have everything moved in and decided to go ahead and take more photos. The timing was perfect because right after I took these photos today, I received a custom order from my ETSY shop and lets just say, my desk is not so clean right now.  I have had several crafting spaces but this is for sure the most creative space I have ever had.  I am very thankful! 

 

 

 

Scrapbook Room Makeover

When I started my scrapbook room makeover, I knew I wanted to keep my Cropper Hopper storage items but wanted them moved off the counters out of sight.  I really like organizing with Cropper Hopper products.  One of the first storage items I purchased years ago was a Cropper Hopper embellishment box /organizer.  I liked it so much that I added a few more in various sizes.  I even use Cropper Hopper photo storage boxes for my Close to My Heart stamp pads and ribbon spools. 

Craft Room Makeover Sewing Quilting Table

This is the first craft room makeover reveal from my newly decorated scrapbooking / crafting / sewing room.  In the past, I only scrapbooked in this room because I have a sewing area in my laundry room.  But since I like the light and the space in this room, I decided to add a sewing table that is big enough to handle quilting, cutting and a small pressing board, plus roomy enough underneath to hide three pink plastic storage bins.

My sewing table is 36 inches deep, 80 inches long and 30 inches tall.  There is a 15" wide cabinet on the right of the table and a 36" wide cabinet on the left end of the table.  I added a rectangle shape leg made from 2x4's that I put behind the small cabinet to support the width of the table top.  The fabric is covering the area of the leg.  The oak cabinets are unfinished stock wall cabinets from Lowe's and are only 12 inches deep.  I painted the cabinets with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint and waxed them.  I love the color, pink is very calming to me.  The color was made using 1 cup Old White chalk paint with 10 ml Emperor's Silk.  It is a perfect pink, not too purple and not too orange, just a pretty shade of pink.

I used a hollow core door from Lowe's for the table top but I do not recommend using hollow core doors.  The door is too flimsy to handle the vibration from my sewing machine, it bounces all around while I am sewing.  I now have a 1"x12" piece of pine shelving under my machine which helps a little but I do plan to change the counter top in the near future.

I used hollow core doors throughout my room for counter tops and now I wish I hadn't.  Although the sizes were perfect, they are not sturdy enough for me. I got the idea to use the doors from Pinterest of course, but obviously that person never tried to use a sewing machine on top of those doors. 

My old counter/table tops were made from plywood topped with laminate flooring.  They were sturdy and so much more practical.  I didn't worry about scratching or staining them.  I will be going back to that idea just as soon as I pick out laminate flooring!  As you can see, I didn't finish the edges of the door since I am going to be changing them out soon. 

I made the pressing board from plywood covered with a towel and placed inside a pillow case that I made with my pretty vintage fabric.  It is just the right size to press quilt pieces and it is lightweight and movable.  The fabric is from 1990 and I love it!  I bought the entire 25 yard bolt back then and made curtains for my family room, I am using what was left over.  I saved it all those years hoping to use it for a special project and I think it is perfect for my room remodel.

 

Creative Spaces My Dream Scrapbook Room

Creative Spaces / Craft Studio / My Dream Scrapbook Room / Cool Crafting Space  is all reorganized with the new armoire for storage. 
edited:  my cool creative space is organized and still clean 10 days later...I have made three two page layouts, and two projects and it still looks just like this photo!!  So happy!!
When I have friends coming over to scrapbook, I move the blue chair out and put up two 6 foot folding tables for them.  You can't see in this photo but in the right lower corner in front of a window, I moved my desk with the sewing machine on it. I can't believe how clean and organized it is!  Now it is time to scrapbook and mess it all up! LOL
I love the blue chair and ottoman.  I call it my creating chair, it is sooo comfortable and gently rocks so I can sit there and think...sometimes you will find me with a piece of 24 inch cardboard on the ottoman working on a layout, the ottoman makes a great working table. LOL

Dream Scrapbook Room Organization

Organizing my scrapbook room, again...it seems my Cricut Cartridges and Quickutz alphabet needed a new home, they had overgrown their previous space. I think this means no moreQuickutz pink binders and no more cartridges. LOL

If you have looked at the slide show (in the right column of my blog) of my dream scrapbook room you may already know this story. These wooden bookshelves were made by my husband when my two oldest children were very young.  He made one shelf for each child, and they sat their bigger toys on the shelves and had plastic baskets that contained Star Wars, Gi Joe, Strawberry Shortcake and Barbie, get the picture?  These shelves used to be six feet tall. But when I started making a scrapbook room, I didn't want to put much money into the room and I do like to upcycle/recycle so the shelves were in the garage collecting dust and I thought, "why not cut the shelves in half so I have two pieces from one shelf and we can put a top on it to use for an island in the middle of my scrapbook room", so that is just what we did.  We used a box of leftover laminiate flooring on top of a piece of plywood for my counter top, it works perfect.  DH screwed a piece of wood on the sides of the two shelves to make them more secure and not worry about them drifting apart.  the cool part is it cost nothing to make and I use this more than anything else.  This island is the perfect height of 31 inches with the counter on it so I can either sit and scrap or stand and it works for me.  It has changed with me everytime I redo my scrapbook room.  The other side of the shelf has nothing on it right now, I put my feet up on it or lay things that I am working with to keep them off the counter surface.  If I could keep only one piece of scrapbook furniture, this would be it.

The following two photos show the extra piece of wood to hold the two halves of the shelf together.  I used to store my paper on one side and baskets on the other.  Then I decided I needed more room for friends to come over and scrap so I moved the island to make room for folding tables and it is a better location for me also, right next to my sewing machine so all I need to do is turn in my chair and there is my sewing machine.
I still have the other 6 foot shelf in the garage...I keep trying to figure out what to do with it in my room.  Maybe it will go upstairs in the office.

My Perfect Scrapbook Room

My perfect scrapbook room!! With the help of dd#1, I am now all organized and ready for our girls scrapbook retreat in 13 days!!

I am so excited, I love having the girls here, so much energy and creativity in one room. I wish we could do this more than once a year. Someday, when I win the lottery, flying the girls in monthly will be second on my list of how to spend the money. First will be paying off my house. LOL Seriously, that is how much I love having the girls here. It is a happy feeling that lasts for the next 12 months until we do it again.

I have often thought about having crops at my house again like I did years ago. But that would mean I would have to keep my room this clean all the time and I know that isn't possible. But I do like the small group setting, me and about 4 others, just enough that we can all talk at the same time and never miss a thing. That is what going to a crop is all about anyway, isn't it, spending time with friends and having a good time with a little bit of scrapbooking. I can scrapbook any day of the week, but my crop time is more special. Do you get what I mean? Sharing, laughing, having a good time!!

Scrapbook Closet...she does all those beautiful pages in there!!

This is my daughter's scrap closet!! Have you ever seen a scrap space more organized and user friendly. It is tucked away in a hall closet. When I visited her I had the opportunity to sit in her space and it was great!! She does beautiful layouts and has all her scrapbooks displayed in her living room. I love looking through them and remembering good times. She is not much of a scrapbook collector of stuff except maybe her Quickutz which I like to contribute to at birthdays and Christmas.
She is a Close to My Heart consultant as one might guess by all the stamps and stamp pads. On the right side of her closet are all of her paper packs and embellishment boxes toward the bottom. She does buy all of the CTMH paper packs and uses them frequently for her scrapbook pages. Her sweet darling daddy made her the paper boxes and her sweet darling hubby installed her custom shelves and desk top made to fit her perfectly. Her desk is only 24 inches deep by 40 inches wide.  Notice how the shelves are smaller at the bottom and get bigger as they go up, giving her the feeling of more space and head room when sitting in the closet.
Under her desk she stores her rolling cart always ready to go to a crop, and her Cricut in the CGull rolling cart which is awesome!!
Check out her blog for some of her inspiring scrapbook layouts. http://www.mysweetarts.blogspot.com/

MY SCRAPBOOK ROOM / CRAFT / SCRAP / CROP

The walls are still bare, but I do have plans for what I want to make to put on them. I am so excited and this is probably the cleanest it will ever be. LOL!