craft room
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All wrapped up
I can’t believe that the start of school is approaching. It always has a way of sneaking up on me. I start to panic when I think of the start of school, because that means that the holidays are just around the corner. For the past few (a lot) of years I have had issues with storing my wrapping paper. With the completion of my craft room, I was determined to have a place to both organize and store all my wrapping supplies. I have seen so many wonderful ideas on pinterest and I was debating on whether or not to incorporate the wrapping station right into the room, or…
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Some words, a vignette, and a runner
I have been showing some finishing touches I have done to my craft room lately. As I came down the bottom of the stairs it was plain and lacking some personality. I had hung pictures in other parts of the room and basement, and I didn’t want the space to feel like a gallery. I decided to get on my silhouette, and with my hubby’s help, I found my favorite quote and cut it out with vinyl. Most of the words except the word create were cut out in Navy blue and I decided to do the word create in a gray color with a different font. I love this…
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Finishing touches
I have been gone for the week on a family vacation. We had a great time visiting the Oregon coast. The ocean was cool and beautiful. A refreshing break from our hundred degree weather. I have been working on some finishing touches for my craft room. I love putting the general room together, then stepping back and adding some fun touches like curtains. These are one of my favorite things to add. My room started with my chair and moved on from there. I knew I wanted to add another fun fabric and pattern, and had just the place to start with. I found this old screen at an antique…
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Finished Craft Room
It was a lot of work, but we finished. We took a basement that had an awkward layout Tore out the wall of one bedroom and created a fun and way functional new family craft room. We installed laminate hand scraped acacia flooring. I decided to go with laminate in the basement instead of wood just for the practicality. I wanted a space we could glue in, paint in, and just have fun in without worrying about carpet. We put a butter color on the walls, and painted the cabinets white. I found the knobs at hobby lobby and decided I needed a pop of color. I sprayed the knobs…
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Re purposing furniture
Painting furniture…one of my favorite things. I love how a piece of furniture can change so drastically with just a can of paint. A while ago my daughter had an armoire in her old bedroom that stored her clothes. We have since moved and did a whole different bedroom for her and she did not need to use that armoire. I decided that it would be great if I could put that piece of furniture in my craft room and use it for a sewing cabinet. The only problem was the paint color. I had painted it pink and creme originally, and those just weren’t going to be the colors…
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My French Door Table
When I started this craft room process, I wanted a table coming out into the center of the room. A lot like a kitchen island. I wanted to be able to use my sewing machine and have room to pull fabric through, kid’s school projects that seem to always use poster board, and just have a space where more than one person could be sitting comfortably doing a project together. We looked into doing cabinets that resembled a kitchen island, or buying a table to go in the center. Both were pretty expensive, and kind of generic to me. We came up with the idea to use a French door…
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Painting cabinets
My room is taking shape and I am excited to get cabinets put in. We painted a valspar paint on the walls called butter. Yellow is hard to pick, and this is the perfect shade of yellow for me. Not to bright, but still very happy. I always paint my walls with an eggshell finish, and my trim with a satin finish. We decided to go with the unfinished stock cabinets for this room. I thought to myself, I will just paint them quickly and get them installed…no problem. They are trickier than they look. I have painted so many finished cabinets in my day, and these are a little…
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A little bit of demo
There has been a little bit of demo going on around here. I didn’t like the floor plan in our basement. It felt like it was just a maze of rooms. We did not need one of the rooms by the stairs, so we decided to tear out the wall and make it one open space. We didn’t need a family room right there, we have a theater room in the basement already, so we decided that a great craft space would be awesome for our family. Here is the floor plan and what it looked like before we took out the wall. It was a small room and the…
