My Space

I have a super cute house that DH & I (plus our amazing building crew & super fabulous friends) worked very hard on.  The rooms were each planned carefully and then the house was designed to make the most of the space.  I love being home with just my family and enjoying life together.  But I also LOVE to have it filled with friends & family...eating, laughing, playing games...and of course Scrapbooking!

At our former home my craft area shared space with our laundry area and our back porch/mudroom/barn closet.  Oh and pantry!

This time I have a dedicated spot.  I can leave a project midway and no one will put a stack of laundry on it.  Or the mail.  Or their snack.  Yeah, life happens that way in a multipurpose area.  And it worked for me for a very long time, but I'm thrilled to now be able to have a fantastic space! 

First off, I have a ton of storage.  I live in the country.  If I run out of adhesive (gasp!), I cannot go get some very easily.  The nearby town (25 minutes away) currently has a little scrapbook store, but it's sort of limited.  And to be honest....the stores have come and gone so much in the last 5 years that it's hard to know from one day to the next.  So I buy in bulk and store it.  And then I shop a little more. :)

I have great lighting.  I have ample space for friends to come and papercraft with me (shout out to my girls!).  And I have a permanent place for my sewing machine to stay up, a spot for the Cricut (that I still have not mastered....come help me Carin), just a space for everything.

Now while I have a beautiful space, I'm also very frugal.  I repurpose things often.  I buy on sale.  And I even purchased a really cool desk from a local cabinetry design center.  It just so happened to be their design counter and was absolutely huge.  So huge that it would have taken my whole room. 

So far I have put a long table in the center of the room and just used that.  Then I brought the cabinet bases in and got a feel for how it would work in the room.  I'm so glad I did that.  When first measured out on graph paper I thought I wanted it a certain length.  But after working between two bases (putting a table top over them so I could make a mock desk) in my wheeled office chair....it was just a little too tight.  So I grabbed the masking tape and started over, measuring and planning.  Meanwhile DH got a fantastic new table saw for Christmas....so I think he can do my 'remodeling' on the bases & table top.

All that to say, my room is still a work in progress.  Yes it's new.  Yes it's perfect.  Yes, it's still evolving into what I really want it to be. Yes, I'm going to share it with you. :)

Here's what you see when you walk in:

Then directly to my left I have two big closets...like this:

Straight ahead:

Directly to the right of that:

And then looking back toward the doorway:

And the wall to the right of the doorway (as you are coming in the room):

I love to organize!  When I get a chance I will show you a few of my organizing finds that keep things at the ready for me to use. :)

Thanks for taking a peek at my space with me!