Ask Santa for a Craft Room

ellie48 I especially like the first picture. The use of the china hutch is brilliant. I like the sawhorse table, the moonstone color on wall, all-over white, lots of drawers and all of those windows letting in lots of light. The covered chandelier. A great work space.
Open. Bright. Airy.

Janell Beals - House of Fifty Mag Now wouldn't that be a fabulous gift!! Great craft rooms shown!

Between Naps on the Porch Ellie...I really like the way they redid the hutch, too!
Isabella...it would indeed be awesome! Think Santa can fit that into his sleigh? ;)

Becky Harris These are great Susan! I think even I could be crafty if I had a room like these, especially Lockette's!

mizjayne No one who does craft has a craftroom that tidy. I can only see the top of my worktable a few times a year. Christmas & birthdays usually….. Or sometimes at the end of a show, when I put away all the trims I've been using & get ready for the next one. It lasts about 35mins.

Nat Who wouldn't love to be creative in any of these rooms? Sigh....

young_gardener Hi! I wanted to share the Craft Room that goes with the closet pictured above (SL idea house, senoia). I think it will help you see why they didn't put a table in the closet.

Enjoy!

cookingchick I LOVE #4...so visually stimulating! I have taken over a walk-in closet in one of our spare rooms and I have a fairly large glass top table set up for my scrapbooking and crafting space...with lots of storage for supplies. To keep it from feeling closed in, I have the table situated facing the wall opposite the door and have various sizes of mirrors hung over the table which reflect the light and view from the window outside the closet on the opposite side of the room...if that makes sense.

moco just a reminder to those designing sewing rooms - while those glass-fronted fabric storage ideas are lovely, your fabric will fade over time. if you're going with something like that, add pretty boxes to protect your fabric from light.

Roberta Philbrick I agree with you on the "craft closet"...designed by someone who obviously doesn't craft...lol Besides I have to have natural LIGHT in my space in order to even think about being creative. Some of us don't even have the luxury of a corner or closet so my studio is my dining/living room. It works for us because we don't have kids at home anymore and the reality is that we just do not sit down at the table to eat so it's my studio now. Lucky me...my studio was featured in Cloth, Paper, Scissors STUDIOS this season because I am able to create more now than ever, with less space. Here's a peak at a few of the photos from the 6pg. spread...woo hoo! Enjoy...Roberta
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Between Naps on the Porch Younggardener...thanks for the pic. I didn't remember seeing in the furniture in the Ideahouse in the room adjoining the closet. It certainly would work better having a big table to work on in an adjoining room. :)
Cookingchick...that sounds neat...would love to see photos of your room/closet.
Moco...good advice. I didn't realize that could happen. Explains why the fabric on my dining chairs has mysteriously faded over the years.
Rlph...thanks for all those great photos! What an awesome space!

linensandlaurel I just LOVE everything about the first one, right up to the shade on the ceiling light. We have a room for crafting/biz/office in our new CA home. Since crafting supplies is my biz, there won't be room for everything, but there is plenty of work space. That room is great inspiration since we still need to unpack, set up and decorate. Maybe I can get Santa's elves to help for a week after Christmas as my present? Thanks for the ideas!

Between Naps on the Porch linensandlaurel...Sounds like a good plan! :)

Nancy Great article Susan! Love the rooms you shared, I am always looking for ways to improve mine and have been wanting to have a table at waist height too so the table in Locker's room would work. Looks like I need to make a trip to Ikea to get new legs for my table top. photos of my studio can be found here in Houzz it's titled Nancy's Craft Studio :) And by the way, LOVE your new Blog header!!! You sure have grown in the time I've been following you! Hugs from Conroe, TX! www.lovestocreate.com

Between Naps on the Porch Thanks, Nancy! Great studio! Love all the storage. I just added a few pics to the end of this Ideabook...glad you have those uploaded here at houzz.

Nancy Awe, thanks Susan!!

shopplussize I agree, these are tooooo neat. I try to look at the positive with a chaotic craft/office, sometimes you have happy accidents. Things get placed side by side and you would have never have thought would work together but they do. A happy accident.

Mary Roseling Fun Fun Fun! We are moving Saturday into our new home and I am getting some great ideas! I keep my fabric in a armoire's, lateral filing cabinets and dressers. So far I like the armoires the best as I can easily scan stacks of fabrics to pull for projects.

momof2cuties Fantastic examples..I dream of this someday to have with my girls!!

Rebekah Zaveloff This is an awesome and topical post! Who doesn't want one of these for the holidays??? Dreamy.

Between Naps on the Porch Shop...I love that! Funny how things do happen that way.
Maryrose...Congrats! Hope your move goes great!
Momof2...that would be wonderful! A craft room would make a great gift for Mother's Day, wouldn't it? :)
Rebekah...you are so right! Thanks!

luckykats Thank you, thank you, thank you for this idea book! My DH is in the process of finishing the walls in my craft room and soon I'll be able to start putting my furniture design together. Luckily, it's a very large room with lots of space for everything I'll need and I love this idea book so I can figure out what I want to put, where. How about a Craft Room Idea Book, Part II???

melodiev Will start decorating my very own craft room very soon! For now I love gathering ideas and appreciate all the clever storage solutions!

Kitchen Cabinet Kings These craft rooms are awesome! I could stay in there for hours, or maybe days?

Paintings by Kirsten Elizabeth Gilmore When the craft room is also a painting studio, I would argue you need the same, large, flat table surface as shown in the sewing room. Varnishing large paintings requires flat drying space. So does building extra heavy texture. Not all art is made on an easel. ;)