Craft Room Shame.
I am sharing these hideous photos of my craft room in the hopes that the following might happen:
1) You would feel better if your craft room/house/any room is a mess.
2) You can see the ‘real’ me. AKA: I am not a neat person.
3) I don’t have to write a post about how scary buying a house is and therefore possibly be embarrased if we don’t get it.
4) I will find some extra motivation to CLEAN the craft room.
5) You might give me suggestions on ways to store my fabrics, scrapbooking supplies, and the bits and pieces from the tens of projects that I have started (candle making, recycled paper, quilt making, embroidery, christmas elves etc. etc. etc.
From the door, looking towards the red wall. To the left is a door going out to the backyard…
The whilte shelves sit in the middle cause they’ve just been moved in and I plan to put my fabric on it…
Same view, just looking to the right.
Further right- desk with obsolete computer on it (we’re not getting rid of this)
Further right again. Printers and memory boxes. (Door is next to black printer)
Other side of door- sewing machine. I need to find a place for my overlocker as well…
Main table. Second door (to the backyard) is on the wall to the right). There are two tables here- top one is for storage with the cubes, second one is more of a work space.
January 22nd, 2011
Your room looks like every other creative, crafty person I know. It’s a really hard area to keep tidy as craft is such a messy thing. For a neat freak like me it’s one of the big things that puts me off making stuff. How terrible is that!!!!
I’ve had my study get like this from time to time too and it really bugged me, especially with my neat issues. The main thing, they say, with tidiness, is everything needs a home. If we don’t have somewhere to put things then they get left out or shoved on a shelf somewhere or piled up in a big heap. Oh and the other thing, from an interior design freak point of view- if you make your storage boxes/containers pretty then it’ll be more fun putting things away and keeping things neat. There has to be some sort of reward for cleaning up;) Maybe more shelving too. You may need to design a craft room for your new place with heaps of shelves and a lovely colour scheme that will entice you to it.
just my 2 cents worth xx
January 22nd, 2011
Ack! That is a messy craft room
. My suggestion get yourself to Ikea pronto!
Good luck sorting it all out.
January 22nd, 2011
Looks like my craft room (if that makes you feel better), but mine is smaller. I have similar shelves, I am making simple curtin to hide what is on the shelves. Good luck with the clean & sort. Be harse & purge you’ll thank yourself later.
January 22nd, 2011
Thanks Suzie, that does make me feel better!! I think I’ll make a curtain too- that way it’ll protect the fabrics!
January 22nd, 2011
Yes, definitely need a trip to Ikea!! But what to buy… I always get so overwhelmed!!
January 22nd, 2011
Sometimes I WISH I was a neat freak! But alas, I can never manage to stay neat for more then a few days…
Also very wise advice about things needing a home Kim. I think I need to get some containers to put things in. Maybe I could make the boxes myself? Use up some stuff as well as make it pretty!!
January 22nd, 2011
I’m sure you could find tubs that would fit on those shelves to put your materials in. That would keep them stacked neatly, sorted into projects or types and dust free. They’d work well for some of your other stuff too.
As for the rest…. keep an eye out for things that you can use. I have film containers for buttons and brads and other smaller bits and pieces, old tins that I’ve picked up at garage sales for cottons and ribbons, a floss box for all my embroidery threads, little plastic acordian files for blank cards… it just takes time.