Whether you are starting a handmade cottage business, want a better place for stitching and knitting supplies, or fantasy of a dedicated area to get your holiday wrapping, you might need some inspiration for organizing your space. Following is a group of some favorite inventive workrooms and storage closets filled with ideas to get you started.
Burnham Design
Utilize boxes and trays to keep things neat. Designer Betsy Burnham’s studio remains organized via shelves filled with white boxes and a string of functional trayscapes.
Martha O’Hara Interiors
Get the most out of a large laundry room. This distance by Martha O’Hara interiors combines an office, laundry area and craft space. O’Hara custom made the wrapping center rods and stands for this particular distance, which she dubs”Practical Magic.”
Martha O’Hara Interiors
Have a designer create a system to meet your needs. Here is a closer look at just how well organized the ribbons and papers are.
Michelle Hinckley
Have fun with colour. Among my favorite color combinations is yellow, black and white, and designer Michelle Hinckley has shone on that taxicab palette in this room. Her usage of symmetry keeps things balanced and pleasing to the eye.
Lots of us have searched high and low for reasonably-priced organizing boxes and magazine holders and have discovered the best deals are from IKEA. Caution: You are going to push your fingertips on those little metallic label tabs when you are placing them together, but they’re worthwhile.
The Locker
Utilize a combination of storage solutions. Flat files, cabinets and open shelving assistance Etsy artist and blogger Lockette keep her supplies organized.
Take over a large closet. This walk-in closet in an idea home was tricked out with rods for wrapping papers, hanging space for fabrics, and baskets for corralling craft supplies. The adjacent craft room remains neat and organized thanks to the closet.
Shoshana Gosselin
Take over a not-so-large closet. I understand most people do not have the luxury of a walk-in we can dedicate to crafts, not as an entire craft space. If this is true, consider transforming a two door closet to a craft space. This is a good use of a guest room closet. (See how this designer made her circle-inspired wall stencil.)
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Perk up the backdrop. Reinvigorate your supply storage with fun paint or wallpaper like this mild aqua inside Vivian’s craft closet.
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Make the most of built-ins. A wall of simple built-ins, along with the above IKEA boxes, transparent drawers and a countertop make the most of one little area of the room.
Surge – ATX
Bring in the experts. If you want to take it to the next level, have an architect, interior designer or closet company design an organizational strategy suited to all of your storage needs.
Contemplate a pegboard system. Borrow the pegboard idea from the garage workbench to hang organizational containers and rods. Paint it an inspiring color; this one is painted”Lakeshore” by Sherwin-Williams.
Paul DeGroot
Learn from a kitchen layout. A island in an art studio or craft space can function much as it will in a kitchen. It offers an extra work surface, drawers for tools and even flat files and/or slots for paintings and drawings. Its location in the middle of everything enhances efficiency.
Jeanette Lunde
Use distance all the way to the ground for storage. If an island is a pipe dream, boxes and baskets on the floor near your desk can assist you in keeping rolled-up programs, sketches and papers handy.
Van Wicklen Layout
Require over a guest space. Designer Jeanette Van Wicklen is blessed enough to have a guest home on her house. She turned one large, light and bright room to her style studio.
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Get the most out of natural light. This studio is where artist Tjasa Owen gets the magic happen. Wall space, natural light and easels are important components for a painter’s workspace.
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ZeroEnergy Design
Take over the attic. In case you have extra space in your attic and need a house studio, consider renovating it. Dormer windows and/or skylights can be added to allow in the natural light.
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