Craft Room Tour

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I finally shared my paper and yarn craft room tour after years of procrastination. While my craft room isn’t large or otherwise special, it’s important to me to share it because of the craft storage solutions I’ve discovered along the way. I know throughout building out my crafting space, I refered to many other bloggers recommendations and tips, so I know how helpful posts like this can be.

Watch My Craft Room Tour on Youtube

About My Craft Room

My craft room is a 12X12(ish) bedroom in our home. For years, it was my oldest daughter’s bedroom. She moved off to college in 2014, only coming home for holidays. In 2015 she got her own apartment and the room became vacant. My heart hurt and so I left everything as it was, like a shrine to her. It wasn’t until 2018 that I finally started to wiggle into the space, creating a duel office/crafting space combo. At the end of 2019 – the day after Christmas, actually, my husband and I went to The Container Store and my craft room began to come to life.

I opted not to use any ikea furniture in my craft room because there isn’t an ikea convenient to me. It would take a 3 hour drive and the rental of a truck. No thanks.

Shop My Craft Room

I’ve gathered up links to all of the things featured in my craftroom tour so you can easily review them against your needs. You’ll find my craft room tour shopping list here.

My shelving units are all custom elfa from the container store – I started with just two little sections and added to it as finances allowed. It’s really simple to get your own custom elfa craft room storage – you just measure the space you’re working with and take a photo and pop into your nearest container store. For a long time I had the same rep and would just email her what I wanted, she’d build it out and I’d click purchase!

You can hang all of the shelving yourself but I have no experience with that as we always paid for the professional installation. I do not trust my luck with heavy things.

My Top Craft Room Tips

1. It’s okay to start slow and build out your solutions gradually. My space took almost 8 years to get to where it is today. Prior to that, some twenty years ago, I had a little desk in the corner of our dining room.
2. Get the things that inspire you out of drawers and on the wall. Things that are in drawers become collections so if you want to use and appreciate your supplies, get them out in the open where you can see them. Keep utilities in the drawer, like stamp platforms, hole punches, etc. Ink pads, markers, and paints that are in your eye range will get used. That’s what we want, right?
3. Pick storage solutions that give you room to grow. Don’t purchase a storage bin that’s just big enough for your current stash. Give yourself a little wiggle room otherwise the first unexpected good deal or gift from a friend will now render your storage solution unsuccessful.
4. I realize not everyone can do this – but if you work with paint, I highly recommend forgoing expensive flooring. In fact, I ripped out all of the carpet in my craft room one day because I hate to stop and clean up paint – the concrete floors give me their blessing in spilling paint and just walking away.
5. Lighting, lighting, lighting. I still struggle with overhead lighting but my under cabinet lighting has been infinitely helpful as. I craft.