Welcome to the second issue of the FaveCrafts Craft Rooms Exposed series! As promised in our monthly craft question post, for 8 more weeks we will be featuring one craft room every Monday. Get inside tips from some of our favorite bloggers and designers and find out how they turn their craft rooms into lean, mean crafting machines! And now without further adieu, let’s explore our first featured craft room.
Featured Room Designer: Berta Gilholm, a featured FaveCrafts designer
Organizational Tip: Berta says: I organize my craft room so that I can see the materials I want to work with easily. I make things stackable so I have room to go up.
The Tour:
Berta says: The gray slot file chest is in alphabetical order. Inside is paint, glue, and other small crafting materials. The hardware drawers above it are for bead work. The storage case with red containers are for the yarn and the transparent drawers underneath them hold all of my needlework supplies. I have two black chests that hold all computer patterns, craft books and paper. This seems to work well, but I never have enough room!
Don’t forget to stop by next Monday for a new tour with new tips!
Awesome Berta! What an inspiration to see someone’s craft area so organized. It blesses my heart. I have something a bit similar going on but you’ve got quite a wonderful stash of craft supplies there! I love that you can see things so easily and it really helps to find the supplies you need when you need them. Great job! Thanks Fave Crafts for featuring Berta’s space.
Great room. My problem is that I have too many different crafts. I have yarn, paint, cross stitch, card-making materials & tools, and books (reading books). Books I have read are in one location, and books to read in another
Nice craft room! At least you can see what you have for crafts. Looks like it would be more effective then my dark plastic bins for sure. And faster you see can what your looking for unlike me…..lifting the bins, opening them up search search search uuugg. I just got really exhausted thinking about it……
I wish my sewing room looked like yours my , knitting ,patching ,crochett. reading . sulking , room looked like yours. mine looks like a tip. my darling husband calls it the black hole, love to you all vron xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Oh I just love that you can see your yarn. Makes me want to shop.LOL Lynn
Your room is so incredible! OMG, can you come over and help me organize mine to look like yours? It is so organized, I have one that has all that you have, in items and space, but it is a “private” room in that a motivational fairy is needed to make it look as neat and tidy. You set the example that is for sure, I love it! Fantastic organizational skills!
What a nice space Berta. I also have to many different crafts that I do which include stone inlay, Japanese Temari, jewelry, quilting, mosaics, paint supplies, beading, embroidery, and cross stitch. (I think I’m missing a few things). I’ve been trying to get my craft room organized so that I can actually use it instead of it being a storage area.
I just took everything out of my craft
room to reorganize, you have given me some wonderful idea’s.
Thanx Berta!
I call my room MY NEST’ My yarn is in 4 big, stacked, see-through bins sorted by type of yarn. I have a cutting table and a sewing machine table with drawers and a computer center with drawers. I use stacked plastic bins with labeled drawers to keep thread, elastic, buttons, tools, etc. I place fabric on stacked pant hangers in the closet. I have book shelves for books and I have a cork board to hang tools. I have plenty of light including a window and 5 lamps. I’m pretty happy with MY NEST.
When anyone says “their craft room” I assume that it is a separate room by itself, and you are so lucky! My craft room is my bedroom. My husband has done everything possible for me to use existing space. He has hung shelving for my clear shoebox type storage and will be soon hanging more shelves for all my sewing, quilting, etc. books. Last year we bought 2 corner cabinets and hung them over the doors, I have to use a 3-step ladder to get up to them. Under my bed are three clear bins filled w/yarn. I have a 3-drawer dressor under the window, on top of which I press and do some cutting. We had a shed built (4′x8′) which he put shelves in and where I keep labeled bins of fabric and more yarn. Needless to say, in my room, I have a double bed and therefore only a small aisle to get around in. He also built me a sewing table, nothing fancy but it works for me. Thanks for the ideas you all share.