Beach Brights' Awesome Craft Room

Who needs a formal living room anyway?!  Let's see:  You spend a lot of time in your comfy cozy family room and the formal living room gets little traffic.  You do crafts on the dining room table or the coffee table or even the floor. Sound familiar?  I love that Christy from Beach Brights found a better solution in her home. I would have done the same thing.  A little-used area becomes a functional awesome VERY useful area!

Her formal living room before:

After...yes!  That's what I'm talking about!

Beautiful cabinetry, awesome island work-space and love that colorful rug!

 There's even an extra handy outlet in a great spot - can you see it?

 Look at all of the awesome storage for perfectly organized materials!

I love when everything has a place.

See MORE jealousy-inducing  jaw-dropping beautiful craft room pictures at Beach Brights' Work Space.

Amazing job, Christy! WOW! It's a crafty DIY-girl's dream!  I can't wait to see the creative ideas you share from that gorgeous room!  :)

Christy has so much more for you to see!

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Closet Office - More than Rubies

With a new baby on the way and a craft room turning nursery, Amber from More than Rubies was looking for a place to organize her craft supplies and create an office space.  After a lot of research, they decided to turn the guest room closet into an office. Here are some pictures of her inspiration:

From blisstree.com

from dwellerswithoutdecorators

First, they cleaned out the closet (before):

Second step was to re-vamp an old computer desk (a GoodWill find).

They used 7ft piece of plywood to extend the desk top to fill the closet.

Sanding, priming, and painting.

After getting the painted desk and desktop into the closet, they added some side shelving for additional storage...

As a finishing touch, they added a piece of molding to the front of the desk so that the plywood addition wasn't so obvious. It worked out perfectly!

Now, they have an fun space for Amber's craft supplies and a small organized office area!  

The total cost of the closet re-model was about $100 dollars. Amber plans to find curtains to cover the opening for when it's not in use.  

Creative use of space, Amber - I love that it's so organized/out of the way!  Thank you so much for sharing your hard work!

For more of Amber's DIY projects, visit her blog at MORE THAN RUBIES.  

Creating an Office/Craft Space

I got this letter from Ashli:

I wanted to share our recent renovation with you. I started a blog www.maillardvillemanor.com

We had a very ugly powder room, about 3 steps from our dinning room ewwww. . . 
what we needed was a computer and craft room.

We took out the pedestal sink and toilet. My husband capped off the plumbing, we didn't want to remove it, for resale purposes, and we installed some ikea kitchen cabinetry.

The bottom corner piece is an ikea upper cabinet. The other lower cabinets are scrapbook storage boxes from Michaels Craft Store.

The counter top is a wood one from ikea. We cut it to size using a table saw and a jig saw. The upper cabinets are ikea uppers and in between them we use simple ikea shelves and baskets bought from ikea also.

We installed some key hooks to keep our spare keys organized.

Are you as excited to see it as I am?  Here it is!

BEFORE

AFTER

Ashli -holy cow!  You guys did a fantastic job!  What an awesome office/craft area and I love that you didn't permanently remove the possible back-to-the original bathroom function for the future.  Genius.  I love how organized and pretty everything is! You have an awesome space to get creative with everything you need in it's place and at your fingertips.  Thank you so much for sharing!

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