*** ETA: Welcome to everyone that is recently watching my video in the year 2020. This video was posted LAST YEAR. I am getting a lot of comments as if it was recently posted, so just wanted to mention it! I do not have fabric available. I destashed it last year when the video was posted. Thank you for watching! *** HELLO! *** I hope this video gives you ideas for your craft room! Please check the links in the description box for the furniture. I am getting a lot of questions that I answer in the video. I know it is a long video, but I did offer the time stamp to the after which cuts out a lot of the time. In the "after" I explain my furniture and link to where to get it. I don't mind answering questions, but after spending so much time on the video and linking the products, I just don't have time to answer the same question over and over. If you have a question and I did not answer it in the video, I will however get back to you! :)
I would like to have a D box unless it's over. And some fabric. I do some sewing for the people in the nursing home. When I can get enough baby blankets and backing to make as many as I can and take them to donate.
LOVE the craft table!! its exactly what I'm looking for to add to my craft room. One question was the table top, you said you doubled them so you didn't have a wasted top, what was it left over from? or did you purchase two Limmon table tops and stack them with the legs? Just want to make sure I buy all the correct inventory hahah!! thanks in advance, and thank you for showing your amazing before and after!!
Just watched as a suggestion, really love the makeover! For more light, there are clip on the desk lights with magnifiers if you like, they may be a good fit for this rather dark room. 💕
I am creating my space and you have a lot of the same ideas I'm currently having. Is there anything you would change or regret if you could do it all over again? I'm worried I won't buy enough shelving or too much and even though it's Ikea it's not necessarily that inexpensive. It adds up quickly. Thank you!
Nice! How about cutting a small strip of packing foam or something to go at the back of the non-distress boxes you’re using for distress pads? It wold keep them from scooting to the back. I love your space because I, too, do paper crafting and sewing/embroidery (and quilting, so I will have to have a large table in the middle for fabric cutting and sewing quilts.). TFS!
Great After - I like the way you put the 'table on table ' by repurposing legs meant for the base units. I might try this when i makeover my main craft room. tfs!
So... watching this as I clean and organize, and I have to admit I was only half paying attention. But I looked up just as you were showing your embellishment stash (4:12) and thought "Wow! I HAVE that!" And I haven't been using it, but never thought to sort all of my die cuts and such in those. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I got a few ideas from your tour, and I didn't mind the length. What I truly appreciate is you confidence in your information and very few uhmmm, or ahhh in your your voice over. Those things make me crazy, ha ha. Nice ideas.
I have just cleaned out all the things I have "out grown" over the years in my craft room. What a wonderful feeling! I too have mine in stations. I only do cards, but still have a lot of things. I ordered Alex drawers for one whole wall and will add a table top just above them for colored pencils and water color items. Have a standard work table like yours, stamp area, die and embossing area, cutting area and airbrush area. Copics are on my main desk. Can't wait until next week when the new drawers come and we add another couple electric outlets. Thanks for being so specific in your video. Keeping the table top from sliding was a nice idea. Congrats on your new room! Go make something!!!
Hello Alicia, Thank for sharing your before and after. Lots of storage ideas. In the future I will be changing up my craft room. I appreciate you taking the time to share. Have a beautiful day!
I am so happy for you. I need to do something with my craft space as it is driving me crazy. You have given me some ideas. Hugs from fellow demonstrator in Canada!
Thank you for showing your craft room. It's very nice, warm and welcoming... I just retired and decided to create a room for crafts. Your room has been the best for providing me with ideas/ways to set up a room to sew, for oil painting and adding papercrafts. It's hard starting from scratch without an IKEA store. I think I can set up desks using storage from Michals and top from Office Depot. They have one from a Card Designer who is on HSN...sorry, I'm typing ideas...lol...I know you don't need them..lol Cost of supplies to begin is quite a bit but looks so fun. I'm excited to get furniture so I can begin. Again, THANK YOU bunches!!!
This video was very helpful---I am at the "before stage"...I work at Michaels and check out their storage supplies mentally all the time...that GREAT sturdy rolly cart--I own 5 of them!!! I have a studio in my basement so EVERYTHING has to be in plastic............thanks for sharing....I can so identify with the storage thing! :)
I also just retired from teaching JH math 37 years!! I wasn't quite ready but got very ill. God used this... I watched UA-cam and learned about papercrafts and cardmaking... In appreciation for your time, effort and thoughtfulness in taping your room and listing everything I will order remaining items from your links. I'll wait until I can place large order.
The “before” space made me so anxious I can’t imagine how you got any work done- but the AFTER totally rocks! I know it was a lot of work but feels so good! Lots of great ideas. Thanks for sharing!
Great Spectrum Noir holder your husband made! So easy to see each color and they are all laying safely on their sides! Your new craft room is beautiful! Thank you for showing the before and after. Everything seems user friendly.
Thank you, Alicia, for the before and after! Amazing amount of work for you and your husband! (He deserves a big pat on the back!). The room is pleasing to the eye and very functional. Can’t wait to see your first card making video. 💝
Girl, you sure worked your tail off! I was exhausted watching your before, just imagining all the work required to reorganize! You did a fabulous job and it looks amazing! Beautiful!
LOL... When I watch the before I get anxiety because I can't believe I worked in that space. It is amazing how I feel now that everything has a proper place. It's crazy how something can take a toll on you mentally and you don't realize it until you change it.
really nicely done space, especially the island I have an idea for your reinkers on Amazon you can buy a big roll of 1/4"white circle stickers you could put one on the tip of your finger touch it to the pad, and then stick it on the cap of the reinker wouldn't be a perfect match, but good enough to find it when you needed it, I would also label each pad holder #1, 2 or A, B and so on, then divide the reinkers into 2 boxes labeled to match
Maybe you could put 2 or 3 in one cube with their sides facing forward and put draw handles on the sides and drawer slide rails on the bottom. Then maybe you can maximize the space. Just a thought.
Your after craft room looks so inviting for crafting! I hope you enjoy many hours of creativity there. I am currently moving to a new house we just bought, and taking this opportunity to go through EVERYTHING and purge and reorganize. You gave me some ideas that I think will be helpful. Thanks!
Your video was great. It has made me really think about how I want to organize my craft room. I don't have a much like all the stamps and inks but I can see it takes a lot to get it organized....wow ! I think I will try and see my supplies to a minimum.
Love it!! looks great! To solve your depth problem with the ink pads on display...use foam cut to the proper width and depth to tuck in the cubbie before you put in the ink pad which will take up the extra space and keep your ink pad from being pushed back too far. I came up with this solution on a project I did in my craft corner. Hope this helps! Great before & after, thank you for sharing!
Maybe I missed it but did your cutting mat fit on your island? If it did, you should put it on and then place your other work areas on top of it. It wouldn't show up in your videos and it would be there when you needed it.
I love your before & after...Great job & the closet does look better & you have lots of empty compartments that you may probably put some of your stuff from the closet out into those empty compartments...👍🏻. Anyway, I am interested in the fabric de-stash that you mentioned & I hope I didn’t miss it. Thanks & take care, 🎀 Lily 🎀
Love it Alicia! So happy for you! I totally understand how frustrating it is to be creative when you are fighting to get to your supplies. Can’t wait to see what you create in your new space.
wow, very nice! I am a big fan of the Ikea furniture and you've shown me even more ideas of how to use it. Thanks for sharing your beautifully organized room!
You.did.so.much.work!! It’s amazing. Thanks for sharing the before as well, it’s great to compare! You had a great setup before, but it appears to be so much more functional now. Enjoy using your wonderful, newly-created space! Looking forward to seeing your new videos.😊
WOW!! my sister calls me the "queen of organization" but honey I bow down to YOU!! I cannot stop saying WOW!! I am in love with your room!! Thanks for the Inspiration bc we are building a new house this year and I'm getting a bigger dedicated scrapbook room and I've saved this video to reference 💖💖💖
A really good tip that I saw and use: for the ink pads that have space behind them and you don’t want to push them back. Take card stock, you have to measure everything but you fold the card stock like a fan. Put them in the back and it stops the stamp pads. I have done it and it works beautifully. Could you put a dot of color on the top of the lids for the reinkers?
Hello Crazy Paper Chick! It's been at least 2 years since your video was posted, and maybe you're happy with your lighting as it was redone at the time, but you commented that you're trying to bring more lighting into your craft room. I see your walls are painted a cantaloupe tone, and you have a lovely window to also bring in light as well. If I had your craft room, I would paint all the walls a pretty white color, and I know it means pulling everything away from the walls to do it, but it would be so amazing and so worth the trouble and bring in more light than you could imagine! Thank you for sharing your beautiful, new craft room. I know you must love crafting in your new space!! So fun to see everyone's before's and after's and ideas. Enjoy your beautiful crafting space!! JaniceLynn Jones~
Hello again Crazy Paper Chick, Thank you for commenting! You said you've moved, so I must ask you if you have a new video of your craft room now? Would love to see it if you do! Thank you for replying to my question!
@@jljcal No new video anytime soon. My craft area is a table, so nothing to show unfortunately. When we get a house in our new town, I will have a craft room to put together again. Then I will do a video, but that will be at least a year away.
For my own special design due to my erratic and minimum focus and boredom set in quickly, (I) To design a specific craft/hobby room (small room ok) with 1 wall facing outside ( preferred backyard facing), add a large basin sink inside with closet to hide from sight). Cut a lengthy window so you can access it from outside and inside depending if it’s messy hobby e.g soap making, mixing witch medicinal concoction etc....
I am most impressed with your before and after investment! You have an awesome set up! I am presently redoing my "Babe Cave"! Shelving unit and work table is coming in today. Where your focus is mostly on paper crafts, mine is needle/yarn work. Can't wait for this to be over with, however! Been purging and reorganizing for a month. And my home office redo comes on the end of my husband's office redo. He retired 3 months ago and moved his work office home. We built our house 3 years ago and converted 2/4 bedrooms into our individual offices knowing retirement was looming! Have fun in your "new" space! Looks like a fun place!
I don't know how the costs compare, but I just saw on Michael's they have cube doors made of pegboard so you could sneak a tiny bit of extra storage there, too! great job I'm glad I came across this now as I'm about to get my very first craft room ever ( after many, many years, you've given me many good ideas and things to consider, I especially like the standing desk you made from the four cube units will definitely have to do that in mine!
You did an amazing job! I love the after and I got good ideas from both before and after! My room is still a hot mess, but I’m still working on it! So far I only have a before video. TFS! 💙 Happy crafting!
Thank you fo much for showing us the before and after. You are brave to do that. I’m not brave enough to film mine. Lol love all the ikea storage units. Look heart and work really well.
It's so nice to see a paper crafter that also has a dedicated sewing area, too. I do more sewing so I'm rethinking having my machine more focused than my paper/photo related things. Your room and closet are really well thought out. Thanks for sharing the before and after.
Great re-do! I’ve got wall to wall book shelves because if I put things in drawers I don’t see it and it won’t get used :(. I wanted a bar height table as well but didn’t want to pay the price so I bought two wide shelving units from Walmart and. table top from Ikea and it works great and was more affordable. I love seeing how others store things. Great ideas.
Great tour. Its great to see the before and after. I like to craft standing up as well because i like to be right over when i am lining things up. My kids used my craft room as a bedroom so my daughter is going to clean her stuff out so i can have it back as shes sick of me crafting in the lounge. Will be great to have a dedicated space back again. Tfs.
What a great and thorough craft room makeover video. I really enjoyed watching. Lots of ideas. That had to be a lot of work and I hope you are still enjoying your current set up. I own the IKEA 25 bin cubicle and it looks nothing like yours. Your set up gave me great inspiration for what I CAN do with mine eventually. 😏 Thank you for sharing!
What an amazing space!!! I can see the creativity just oozing out of you now! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and ideas. I am so happy for you!!
Very nicely done!! So much open real estate. I love your big work table with the raised legs and a cool layer of accessibility underneath. You inspired me to dejunk my own room!!
OMW.... incredible transformation. Love it. Hubby & I only moved house 7th Dec 18 so still in middle of unpacking so I really m having Crafting withdrawal symptoms. Good thing is new house has good size rooms so I get to have the biggest room as my Craft Studio. Having a very very very tiny room before with only a desk, filing cabinet & dresser drawer unit I have not got inspiration from your new room. IKEA Kallax for sure is a way for me to go as I need lots of storage. So thank you so much for sharing. Love from Andrea Triple A Crafts Newtownards Co. Down Northern Ireland xox
I have a huge room in the house plus a 10x13 shed a 9x6 shed n an rv converted to my display room n i use it dor summertime yard sales n arts n craft shows.
Love your new craft room. You mentioned in your video about your drawers of fabric, I am a quilter and if there are any fabrics that would be good for quilt tops please let me know. I make quilts for my family but my quilt guild makes charity quilts.
LOVE LOVE LOVE your craftroom. Absolutely stunning and very functional. Thank you so much for taking the time to show us. You are a real inspiration to us :-) hugs xxx
Empty drawers, unheard of. Lol. Alicia your room turned out awesome. What a pleasant area to craft in. The closet looks great too. I know what you mean about things on the floor. I'm still dealing with that situation but working on it. I'll probably always have a few things on the floor but getting the majority of it off is the goal. I don't think i could give up my ceiling fan, they are a must in Sacramento, CA. This was a lot of work but the end result is beautiful. Congrats on your new room.
for your baggie of scraps.. my suggestion (just now thinking of the fact that im commenting on the before version) is a school binder and page protecters. that's how i store my vinyl and print and cut papers
LOVE your new setup!!! By the way, you mentioned lighting, I just bought a desk lamp called TaoTronics and I love it. Variable lighting brightness and multi settings as to different types/shades of light. No heat and ready to use out of the box. Wonderful on the eyes while getting the job done. Thanks for sharing your fantastic new room!
Loved your before and after of your craft room. I just wanted to pass on a tip I got from another youtuber. For your bottled inks in the drawer, you can swatch the colors on paper and use your hole punch to make small color swatches to stick on the tops of the lids so you can see what you have looking down into your drawer. Again love what you did to organize your craft room.
Thank you. I am getting ready to organize my Craft Room. I have some Alex drawers and love them. IKEA to the rescue. The Kallax shelf unit looks much less expensive than the current craft organizer we see advertised.
TFS and an extra thanks for keeping it real! You have a great space and it is organized well. Sometimes I watch CRT to get ideas for organizing etc., and I feel like I would have to spend a ton of money to get all matching units and/or special systems... it is fun to watch them, but a bit discouraging as far as assisting with how to make my space more functional.. sort of how Pinterest is a fun place to browse, but most of it looks like nobody with children or pets, ever stepped into the place! 😝 TA and God Bless 🙏🏻
Gosh you have been busy 😻 I love that you showed us the before and the awesome after. Love this video and all the work you have done ❤ thank you so much for letting us see your amazing craft room. Happy crafting 👍
Omg, this is one of the best craft room tours I’ve seen! Loved to see how you were able to put like things together, your room looks so inviting and functional!!
It's so lovely 🥰 Your first part looks better than mine even but now.. WOW!!! Maybe one day, I can dream😇 Who knows though now that I now am a Stampin Up DEMONSTRATOR maybe I can get my room finally set up nice to one day!! I sure hope so!! My husband just bought me a few of the cubes from Michaels over the weekend. They were on sale. I am trying to get my room organized and ready for my new business adventure 😍 Thanks for sharing your room 💕
Good luck with you SU! I have been with SU for 2 years and it is a lot of fun. Your room will come together. I had a lot of the items already only having to add a few here and there. It's a slow process, but as long as you have a goal and a plan, you can do it!
Have you ever thought about putting two of your desks together in the middle of the room, or even all three? You would be able to use that magnificent cutting board your hubby had gotten for you. Your desks might not be the same height, but if any of them were, you would be able to open up your dresser drawers without bumping into anything. You would also be able to put up a bookshelf or shelves to take your items off of the floor in which you’ve been upset with bumping or knocking into. Heck, you could put two of your desks together even if they weren’t exactly the same height. There are a lot of choices you could do in covering the desk sizes. Thank you for your wonderful tour. Hope all is well.
@@CrazyPaperChick - then I look forward to your Craft Room Tour. It will look fabulous for sure. Until then stay safe from the bruises. There is an area in one part of mine that has been getting me good. I’m always saying, Ouch! Along with a few choice words mixed in. But hey, you really do have a nice space overall, and it will come together just the way you’ll like it sooner than later. Anything is probably better than mine. I’m in the garage between the wood stack and coal. Since I’m here more often than naught, it is my duty to feed the Dragon 🐉. The colder it gets the hungrier she is. Wood and coal is her staple. She’s big too. I love how I will need something I don’t use often or need a certain paper pad and I have to climb up, over and around and do a squeeze in between to get to them. I would love a guest room or even a small tiny room to do my work. It’s just not in the cards for awhile. So, if you bump or trip over one of your items on the floor and have exhausted yourself of a certain colorful language, just think of me, and I’m probably getting the same welcome to my shins thousands of miles to the north west. Wishing you all of the best and stay smiling, life is good. 🌷
wonderful job, i love the way you showed us how it really is, what you liked and didn't like. So often people stage their craft rooms and they don't look real or used. You video def help me decide on what I was thinking of getting and a couple of things i never thought of, so thanks. and btw your space looks great.
This is an amazing room!! You did a great job organizing everything! I think it turned out absolutely perfect! Thank you for sharing the before and taking us along for an after tour. I got a lot of great ideas!
Bravo. You obviously put a lot of thought into what was working vs not and what you wanted to change to make your studio/craft room functional for you right now. Enjoy your space; you deserve it, Sunshine!
Nice job. Hope your enjoying your space. This comment is 1 yr later. On your closet you mentioned you would like to get rid of the shoe rack. It looked like Stampin Up stamp cases on there. Ikea sells Knedby units which are tall and hold lots of dvd cases. One of these would go great to left of your lg. Alex drawers. Just wondering if you are still happy with the standing desk, I'm thinking on this for myself.
Yes, I love the standing table. I do have a bar stool to sit on, but I find myself standing more than sitting which was the goal. Plus the table is real handy when cutting fabric or wrapping presents!
Oh wow what a difference in your afterwards. My craft room is shared with my husband office space, and I really need more room and the drawers from Ikea would provide that form me as well as the finger nail polish rack for my 2oz bottles of paint. I just want to thank you for sharing, and providing links to reasonable priced items from Ikea. Again I love your new, and improved craft room.
There r lights that attach to under ur shelves that could provide good lighting if ur looking for more lighting for sewing plus lights that goes under ur sewing machine throat to help with seeing what ur doing. The good thing about those lights is that they don't take up that much room. And if someone else suggested it I'm sorry for a repeat.
Fantastic redo! I really love the island in the middle, & the 5x5 cubes! When I got mine they only had 4x4. You’ve done a lot of work & it looks amazing! Enjoy you’re space.
So happy for you. I know it's nice and more relaxing when you have something you planned for turn out the way you envisioned! Looking forward to seeing more of your creative designs!
*** ETA: Welcome to everyone that is recently watching my video in the year 2020. This video was posted LAST YEAR. I am getting a lot of comments as if it was recently posted, so just wanted to mention it! I do not have fabric available. I destashed it last year when the video was posted. Thank you for watching!
*** HELLO! *** I hope this video gives you ideas for your craft room! Please check the links in the description box for the furniture. I am getting a lot of questions that I answer in the video. I know it is a long video, but I did offer the time stamp to the after which cuts out a lot of the time. In the "after" I explain my furniture and link to where to get it. I don't mind answering questions, but after spending so much time on the video and linking the products, I just don't have time to answer the same question over and over. If you have a question and I did not answer it in the video, I will however get back to you! :)
I have the same lamp in my classroom too, and the same thing happened to the pink shade on mine.
I would like to have a D box unless it's over. And some fabric. I do some sewing for the people in the nursing home. When I can get enough baby blankets and backing to make as many as I can and take them to donate.
LOVE the craft table!! its exactly what I'm looking for to add to my craft room. One question was the table top, you said you doubled them so you didn't have a wasted top, what was it left over from? or did you purchase two Limmon table tops and stack them with the legs? Just want to make sure I buy all the correct inventory hahah!! thanks in advance, and thank you for showing your amazing before and after!!
Just watched as a suggestion, really love the makeover! For more light, there are clip on the desk lights with magnifiers if you like, they may be a good fit for this rather dark room. 💕
I am creating my space and you have a lot of the same ideas I'm currently having. Is there anything you would change or regret if you could do it all over again? I'm worried I won't buy enough shelving or too much and even though it's Ikea it's not necessarily that inexpensive. It adds up quickly. Thank you!
Nice! How about cutting a small strip of packing foam or something to go at the back of the non-distress boxes you’re using for distress pads? It wold keep them from scooting to the back. I love your space because I, too, do paper crafting and sewing/embroidery (and quilting, so I will have to have a large table in the middle for fabric cutting and sewing quilts.). TFS!
Great After - I like the way you put the 'table on table ' by repurposing legs meant for the base units. I might try this when i makeover my main craft room. tfs!
So... watching this as I clean and organize, and I have to admit I was only half paying attention. But I looked up just as you were showing your embellishment stash (4:12) and thought "Wow! I HAVE that!" And I haven't been using it, but never thought to sort all of my die cuts and such in those. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I got a few ideas from your tour, and I didn't mind the length. What I truly appreciate is you confidence in your information and very few uhmmm, or ahhh in your your voice over. Those things make me crazy, ha ha. Nice ideas.
LOL, well "uhmm's" do pop up in my other videos occasionally. Hate it too because I don't realize I say it until I edit.
Love the double decker work station. Great ideas, thank you for sharing your work room.
i keep watching it still... love the island. and thank you for pointing out that the linmon top is not flushed with the 2x2 kallax.
What a huge & lovely craft room you have 👍👍. You did an awesome job too 👏. It looks so pretty, very neat and organized. Thank you for sharing.
I have just cleaned out all the things I have "out grown" over the years in my craft room. What a wonderful feeling! I too have mine in stations. I only do cards, but still have a lot of things. I ordered Alex drawers for one whole wall and will add a table top just above them for colored pencils and water color items. Have a standard work table like yours, stamp area, die and embossing area, cutting area and airbrush area. Copics are on my main desk. Can't wait until next week when the new drawers come and we add another couple electric outlets. Thanks for being so specific in your video. Keeping the table top from sliding was a nice idea. Congrats on your new room! Go make something!!!
This is the best makeover video ever! Thanks for sharing it with us. I'm stealing your island idea for my cutting table. Thanks again!
Hello Alicia, Thank for sharing your before and after. Lots of storage ideas. In the future I will be changing up my craft room. I appreciate you taking the time to share. Have a beautiful day!
What a wonderful space! I am sure you are looking forward to creating in your new room. Thanks for sharing
Thank you! I have been enjoying it so much more. :)
I am so happy for you. I need to do something with my craft space as it is driving me crazy. You have given me some ideas. Hugs from fellow demonstrator in Canada!
Thank you for showing your craft room. It's very nice, warm and welcoming...
I just retired and decided to create a room for crafts. Your room has been the best for providing me with ideas/ways to set up a room to sew, for oil painting and adding papercrafts.
It's hard starting from scratch without an IKEA store. I think I can set up desks using storage from Michals and top from Office Depot. They have one from a Card Designer who is on HSN...sorry, I'm typing ideas...lol...I know you don't need them..lol
Cost of supplies to begin is quite a bit but looks so fun. I'm excited to get furniture so I can begin.
Again, THANK YOU bunches!!!
Thanks, Nancy! Glad you found this video helpful! :)
I enjoyed this tour. I love what you did. It was not boring at all.
This video was very helpful---I am at the "before stage"...I work at Michaels and check out their storage supplies mentally all the time...that GREAT sturdy rolly cart--I own 5 of them!!! I have a studio in my basement so EVERYTHING has to be in plastic............thanks for sharing....I can so identify with the storage thing! :)
You really did a fantastic job redoing your room. Kudos to your hubby for all he's done!
Yes! Very thankful for his help in putting everything together.
I also just retired from teaching JH math 37 years!! I wasn't quite ready but got very ill. God used this... I watched UA-cam and learned about papercrafts and cardmaking...
In appreciation for your time, effort and thoughtfulness in taping your room and listing everything I will order remaining items from your links. I'll wait until I can place large order.
The “before” space made me so anxious I can’t imagine how you got any work done- but the AFTER totally rocks! I know it was a lot of work but feels so good! Lots of great ideas. Thanks for sharing!
Great Spectrum Noir holder your husband made! So easy to see each color and they are all laying safely on their sides! Your new craft room is beautiful! Thank you for showing the before and after. Everything seems user friendly.
Thank you, Alicia, for the before and after! Amazing amount of work for you and your husband! (He deserves a big pat on the back!). The room is pleasing to the eye and very functional. Can’t wait to see your first card making video. 💝
Girl, you sure worked your tail off! I was exhausted watching your before, just imagining all the work required to reorganize! You did a fabulous job and it looks amazing! Beautiful!
LOL... When I watch the before I get anxiety because I can't believe I worked in that space. It is amazing how I feel now that everything has a proper place. It's crazy how something can take a toll on you mentally and you don't realize it until you change it.
really nicely done space, especially the island I have an idea for your reinkers on Amazon you can buy a big roll of 1/4"white circle stickers you could put one on the tip of your finger touch it to the pad, and then stick it on the cap of the reinker wouldn't be a perfect match, but good enough to find it when you needed it, I would also label each pad holder #1, 2 or A, B and so on, then divide the reinkers into 2 boxes labeled to match
Maybe you could put 2 or 3 in one cube with their sides facing forward and put draw handles on the sides and drawer slide rails on the bottom. Then maybe you can maximize the space. Just a thought.
Your after craft room looks so inviting for crafting! I hope you enjoy many hours of creativity there. I am currently moving to a new house we just bought, and taking this opportunity to go through EVERYTHING and purge and reorganize. You gave me some ideas that I think will be helpful. Thanks!
Your video was great. It has made me really think about how I want to organize my craft room. I don't have a much like all the stamps and inks but I can see it takes a lot to get it organized....wow ! I think I will try and see my supplies to a minimum.
Awesome room! What a difference from before! I need to come up with a plan now for my work area! Thank you for the ideas!
Your space is awesome. It's well set up and organized. Thanks for taking the time to share it with us.
Love it!! looks great! To solve your depth problem with the ink pads on display...use foam cut to the proper width and depth to tuck in the cubbie before you put in the ink pad which will take up the extra space and keep your ink pad from being pushed back too far. I came up with this solution on a project I did in my craft corner. Hope this helps! Great before & after, thank you for sharing!
Maybe I missed it but did your cutting mat fit on your island? If it did, you should put it on and then place your other work areas on top of it. It wouldn't show up in your videos and it would be there when you needed it.
No, unfortunately it doesn't fit. It would hang off the top of my table.
I love your before & after...Great job & the closet does look better & you have lots of empty compartments that you may probably put some of your stuff from the closet out into those empty compartments...👍🏻. Anyway, I am interested in the fabric de-stash that you mentioned & I hope I didn’t miss it. Thanks & take care, 🎀 Lily 🎀
Love it Alicia! So happy for you! I totally understand how frustrating it is to be creative when you are fighting to get to your supplies. Can’t wait to see what you create in your new space.
wow, very nice! I am a big fan of the Ikea furniture and you've shown me even more ideas of how to use it. Thanks for sharing your beautifully organized room!
YES, I am interested in your stash ... Oh, did I just yell yes. Your room is already great. Can hardly wait to see what you do!
Love your new set up! You did an awesome job!
Wow! That looks GREAT! I really enjoyed seeing your craft room and the "before" and "after" pictures. Thumbs up. Thanks for sharing! Beth
You.did.so.much.work!! It’s amazing. Thanks for sharing the before as well, it’s great to compare! You had a great setup before, but it appears to be so much more functional now. Enjoy using your wonderful, newly-created space! Looking forward to seeing your new videos.😊
Yes! It is so much more functional, thank goodness. I don't think I realized how dysfunctional it was until I really started to look at things.
WOW!! my sister calls me the "queen of organization" but honey I bow down to YOU!! I cannot stop saying WOW!! I am in love with your room!! Thanks for the Inspiration bc we are building a new house this year and I'm getting a bigger dedicated scrapbook room and I've saved this video to reference 💖💖💖
Thank you! Hope I can stay organized! :)
I LOVE craftroom tours and yours was a great transformation!! Enjoy your new space! Thank you for sharing.
A really good tip that I saw and use: for the ink pads that have space behind them and you don’t want to push them back. Take card stock, you have to measure everything but you fold the card stock like a fan. Put them in the back and it stops the stamp pads. I have done it and it works beautifully. Could you put a dot of color on the top of the lids for the reinkers?
SOOOOOOO JEALOUS!!! I have less than half, and my room looks like the 'before"
Hello Crazy Paper Chick!
It's been at least 2 years since your video was posted, and maybe you're happy with your lighting as it was redone at the time,
but you commented that you're trying to bring more lighting into your craft room. I see your walls are painted a cantaloupe tone, and you have a lovely window to also bring in light as well. If I had your craft room, I would paint all the walls a pretty white color, and
I know it means pulling everything away from the walls to do it, but it would be so amazing and so worth the trouble and bring in
more light than you could imagine! Thank you for sharing your beautiful, new craft room. I know you must love crafting in your new space!! So fun to see everyone's before's and after's and ideas. Enjoy your beautiful crafting space!!
JaniceLynn Jones~
Thanks JaniceLynn! We have moved, but thanks for sharing your lighting tips.
Hello again Crazy Paper Chick,
Thank you for commenting!
You said you've moved, so I must ask you if you have a new video of your craft room now? Would love to see it if you do! Thank you for replying to my question!
@@jljcal No new video anytime soon. My craft area is a table, so nothing to show unfortunately. When we get a house in our new town, I will have a craft room to put together again. Then I will do a video, but that will be at least a year away.
For my own special design due to my erratic and minimum focus and boredom set in quickly, (I) To design a specific craft/hobby room (small room ok) with 1 wall facing outside ( preferred backyard facing), add a large basin sink inside with closet to hide from sight). Cut a lengthy window so you can access it from outside and inside depending if it’s messy hobby e.g soap making, mixing witch medicinal concoction etc....
I am most impressed with your before and after investment! You have an awesome set up! I am presently redoing my "Babe Cave"! Shelving unit and work table is coming in today. Where your focus is mostly on paper crafts, mine is needle/yarn work. Can't wait for this to be over with, however! Been purging and reorganizing for a month. And my home office redo comes on the end of my husband's office redo. He retired 3 months ago and moved his work office home. We built our house 3 years ago and converted 2/4 bedrooms into our individual offices knowing retirement was looming! Have fun in your "new" space! Looks like a fun place!
I don't know how the costs compare, but I just saw on Michael's they have cube doors made of pegboard so you could sneak a tiny bit of extra storage there, too! great job I'm glad I came across this now as I'm about to get my very first craft room ever ( after many, many years, you've given me many good ideas and things to consider, I especially like the standing desk you made from the four cube units will definitely have to do that in mine!
You did an amazing job! I love the after and I got good ideas from both before and after! My room is still a hot mess, but I’m still working on it! So far I only have a before video. TFS! 💙 Happy crafting!
Crafting and Relaxing me too! 😂 (before video)
Way to go girl....looking good there! You did a super job!
Thank you fo much for showing us the before and after. You are brave to do that. I’m not brave enough to film mine. Lol love all the ikea storage units. Look heart and work really well.
It's so nice to see a paper crafter that also has a dedicated sewing area, too. I do more sewing so I'm rethinking having my machine more focused than my paper/photo related things. Your room and closet are really well thought out. Thanks for sharing the before and after.
Hello WOW what a transformation it's beautiful the before made me dizzy lol. I love the design now. Enjoy 😁
Great re-do! I’ve got wall to wall book shelves because if I put things in drawers I don’t see it and it won’t get used :(. I wanted a bar height table as well but didn’t want to pay the price so I bought two wide shelving units from Walmart and. table top from Ikea and it works great and was more affordable. I love seeing how others store things. Great ideas.
Great tour. Its great to see the before and after. I like to craft standing up as well because i like to be right over when i am lining things up. My kids used my craft room as a bedroom so my daughter is going to clean her stuff out so i can have it back as shes sick of me crafting in the lounge. Will be great to have a dedicated space back again. Tfs.
What a great and thorough craft room makeover video. I really enjoyed watching. Lots of ideas. That had to be a lot of work and I hope you are still enjoying your current set up. I own the IKEA 25 bin cubicle and it looks nothing like yours. Your set up gave me great inspiration for what I CAN do with mine eventually. 😏 Thank you for sharing!
What an amazing space!!! I can see the creativity just oozing out of you now! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and ideas. I am so happy for you!!
Thanks, Beverly :)
Very nicely done!! So much open real estate. I love your big work table with the raised legs and a cool layer of accessibility underneath. You inspired me to dejunk my own room!!
OMW.... incredible transformation. Love it. Hubby & I only moved house 7th Dec 18 so still in middle of unpacking so I really m having Crafting withdrawal symptoms. Good thing is new house has good size rooms so I get to have the biggest room as my Craft Studio. Having a very very very tiny room before with only a desk, filing cabinet & dresser drawer unit I have not got inspiration from your new room. IKEA Kallax for sure is a way for me to go as I need lots of storage. So thank you so much for sharing. Love from Andrea Triple A Crafts Newtownards Co. Down Northern Ireland xox
wow one of the best transsformations ever. clutter free and stress free space.
I have such a small apt, I would have loved even your old set-up. Lol. However, I love the new set-up. Super cute and efficient!
I used to live in a studio when I started sewing.. Everything was on a card table. It was brutal at times, lol
wow! Such a great space! I really like the idea of the legs for that shorter storage. I really need to organize. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the tour. My brother is coming round today to help me put some new storage. You’ve given me some ideas to organise my Kallax.
Fabric! Yes please! Great Idea for pens! will try making my own, for my cricut pens
The liteman table how tall is it? and is it comforable to use while standing?
I have a huge room in the house plus a 10x13 shed a 9x6 shed n an rv converted to my display room n i use it dor summertime yard sales n arts n craft shows.
The wonders of IKEA... It was interesting to see your craft space, thank you for sharing before and after in such detail 😁
Do you have ‘plans’ available for your new table? I especially like the raised top for storing all those larger flat things.
A great change and you can set UA-cam on fire now!!!! So Happy for you and enjoy.
Awesome video! Thanks for showing us your before and after. You'll have a lot of fun crafting in your new space! It is gorgeous.
Love your new craft room. You mentioned in your video about your drawers of fabric, I am a quilter and if there are any fabrics that would be good for quilt tops please let me know. I make quilts for my family but my quilt guild makes charity quilts.
LOVE LOVE LOVE your craftroom. Absolutely stunning and very functional. Thank you so much for taking the time to show us. You are a real inspiration to us :-) hugs xxx
Beautiful set up! Updating your creative space is always super exciting!
This is amazing. Thank you for sharing. I have such wonderful ideas running though my head for my craft rooms now. ❤
Empty drawers, unheard of. Lol. Alicia your room turned out awesome. What a pleasant area to craft in. The closet looks great too. I know what you mean about things on the floor. I'm still dealing with that situation but working on it. I'll probably always have a few things on the floor but getting the majority of it off is the goal. I don't think i could give up my ceiling fan, they are a must in Sacramento, CA. This was a lot of work but the end result is beautiful. Congrats on your new room.
I will need to bring a stand up fan in my room eventually, lol. Especially during the summer!
Sorry for commenting so late, I just watch it. I absolutely love ur art/ craft room!!!! Love you! Hope u stay safe and keep doing what ur doing! 💓
for your baggie of scraps.. my suggestion (just now thinking of the fact that im commenting on the before version) is a school binder and page protecters. that's how i store my vinyl and print and cut papers
LOVE your new setup!!! By the way, you mentioned lighting, I just bought a desk lamp called TaoTronics and I love it. Variable lighting brightness and multi settings as to different types/shades of light. No heat and ready to use out of the box. Wonderful on the eyes while getting the job done. Thanks for sharing your fantastic new room!
Loved your before and after of your craft room. I just wanted to pass on a tip I got from another youtuber. For your bottled inks in the drawer, you can swatch the colors on paper and use your hole punch to make small color swatches to stick on the tops of the lids so you can see what you have looking down into your drawer. Again love what you did to organize your craft room.
Thank you. I am getting ready to organize my Craft Room. I have some Alex drawers and love them. IKEA to the rescue. The Kallax shelf unit looks much less expensive than the current craft organizer we see advertised.
Love this room. I am in the process of redoing my craft room. It is a big mess right now lol. Can’t wait to get mine done.
Your room looks great. love your center desk.
TFS and an extra thanks for keeping it real! You have a great space and it is organized well. Sometimes I watch CRT to get ideas for organizing etc., and I feel like I would have to spend a ton of money to get all matching units and/or special systems... it is fun to watch them, but a bit discouraging as far as assisting with how to make my space more functional.. sort of how Pinterest is a fun place to browse, but most of it looks like nobody with children or pets, ever stepped into the place! 😝 TA and God Bless 🙏🏻
Beautiful space! Thanks for sharing. I know it was a LOT of work. Great job!
Gosh you have been busy 😻 I love that you showed us the before and the awesome after. Love this video and all the work you have done ❤ thank you so much for letting us see your amazing craft room. Happy crafting 👍
This is well done. I love you island and you 5x5. Gave me some ideas,
Omg, this is one of the best craft room tours I’ve seen! Loved to see how you were able to put like things together, your room looks so inviting and functional!!
It's so lovely 🥰 Your first part looks better than mine even but now.. WOW!!! Maybe one day, I can dream😇 Who knows though now that I now am a Stampin Up DEMONSTRATOR maybe I can get my room finally set up nice to one day!! I sure hope so!! My husband just bought me a few of the cubes from Michaels over the weekend. They were on sale. I am trying to get my room organized and ready for my new business adventure 😍 Thanks for sharing your room 💕
Good luck with you SU! I have been with SU for 2 years and it is a lot of fun. Your room will come together. I had a lot of the items already only having to add a few here and there. It's a slow process, but as long as you have a goal and a plan, you can do it!
Have you ever thought about putting two of your desks together in the middle of the room, or even all three? You would be able to use that magnificent cutting board your hubby had gotten for you. Your desks might not be the same height, but if any of them were, you would be able to open up your dresser drawers without bumping into anything. You would also be able to put up a bookshelf or shelves to take your items off of the floor in which you’ve been upset with bumping or knocking into. Heck, you could put two of your desks together even if they weren’t exactly the same height. There are a lot of choices you could do in covering the desk sizes.
Thank you for your wonderful tour. Hope all is well.
Room was too small to really do that, but definitely something I have thought about for my future craft room that will hopefully be bigger
@@CrazyPaperChick - then I look forward to your Craft Room Tour. It will look fabulous for sure.
Until then stay safe from the bruises. There is an area in one part of mine that has been getting me good. I’m always saying, Ouch! Along with a few choice words mixed in. But hey, you really do have a nice space overall, and it will come together just the way you’ll like it sooner than later.
Anything is probably better than mine. I’m in the garage between the wood stack and coal. Since I’m here more often than naught, it is my duty to feed the Dragon 🐉. The colder it gets the hungrier she is. Wood and coal is her staple. She’s big too.
I love how I will need something I don’t use often or need a certain paper pad and I have to climb up, over and around and do a squeeze in between to get to them.
I would love a guest room or even a small tiny room to do my work. It’s just not in the cards for awhile. So, if you bump or trip over one of your items on the floor and have exhausted yourself of a certain colorful language, just think of me, and I’m probably getting the same welcome to my shins thousands of miles to the north west.
Wishing you all of the best and stay smiling, life is good. 🌷
What a difference. It looks great!
wonderful job, i love the way you showed us how it really is, what you liked and didn't like. So often people stage their craft rooms and they don't look real or used. You video def help me decide on what I was thinking of getting and a couple of things i never thought of, so thanks. and btw your space looks great.
and I love your Sanderson Sisters... those are awesome...
Aren't they adorable?! I need to find a spot that is not in the closet for them to be on display.
@@CrazyPaperChick I saw those in your closet and love them. Wherever did you find them?
@@Scrappingpinklady Etsy! www.etsy.com/shop/LunaMoonGothic
This is an amazing room!! You did a great job organizing everything! I think it turned out absolutely perfect! Thank you for sharing the before and taking us along for an after tour. I got a lot of great ideas!
Loved the idea of the before and after! Great after!
Bravo. You obviously put a lot of thought into what was working vs not and what you wanted to change to make your studio/craft room functional for you right now. Enjoy your space; you deserve it, Sunshine!
Nice job. Hope your enjoying your space. This comment is 1 yr later. On your closet you mentioned you would like to get rid of the shoe rack. It looked like Stampin Up stamp cases on there. Ikea sells Knedby units which are tall and hold lots of dvd cases. One of these would go great to left of your lg. Alex drawers. Just wondering if you are still happy with the standing desk, I'm thinking on this for myself.
Yes, I love the standing table. I do have a bar stool to sit on, but I find myself standing more than sitting which was the goal. Plus the table is real handy when cutting fabric or wrapping presents!
Very functional set up. What is the square footage of your room? My sewing studio room is 9'x 10'. It badly needs organization !
Oh wow what a difference in your afterwards. My craft room is shared with my husband office space, and I really need more room and the drawers from Ikea would provide that form me as well as the finger nail polish rack for my 2oz bottles of paint. I just want to thank you for sharing, and providing links to reasonable priced items from Ikea. Again I love your new, and improved craft room.
There r lights that attach to under ur shelves that could provide good lighting if ur looking for more lighting for sewing plus lights that goes under ur sewing machine throat to help with seeing what ur doing. The good thing about those lights is that they don't take up that much room. And if someone else suggested it I'm sorry for a repeat.
Wow! Your new craft room is amazing! Everything is organized beautifully.
Take your refill bottles and stamp the tops into the matching pad making it easier to find the refill color you need.
Fantastic redo! I really love the island in the middle, & the 5x5 cubes! When I got mine they only had 4x4. You’ve done a lot of work & it looks amazing! Enjoy you’re space.
I did not find channel until today Feb if you have anymore fabric I would be interested, just starting. Thanks Debra
Wow! It is a beautiful space! Happy crafting and TFS!
I really like the island idea. thank you for sharing your ideas
So happy for you. I know it's nice and more relaxing when you have something you planned for turn out the way you envisioned! Looking forward to seeing more of your creative designs!