What do you love & what do you hate about your craft space?

what i love? all the STUFF

what i don't love? that i had to downsize from an entire room to my bedroom. i don't have room to work or even move half the time. it drives me crazy and therefore i've hardly scrapped this year.

doesn't seem to stop me from buying though!

My likes:
- It's my own space
- It is a good size with a lot of wall space for storage
- It makes me happy to be in even if I'm not crafting
- It has allowed for a lot of growth and change over the years (although I'm now at capacity, lol)
- It has a bathroom and therefore a sink (the entire bathroom was a godsend when I was pregnant, though)
- All of the furniture looks good together. It's mostly Ikea with some other bits thrown in, but I honestly don't get the excitement from people in room tour videos when they show off a hodge podge of mismatched furniture they've acquired from yard sales or dumpster diving. It looks messy and disorganized even when everything IS organized...at least it does to me. I really love the cohesion of uniform colored furniture and matching organizational pieces. No 'candy buffet' using random milk glass for me.  I understand that some people like the look and other people are happy just to have furniture at all because of budgetary concerns, it's just not my cup of tea.
- I can close it off (it's a downstairs space) when people are over, especially people with children because I can close the door and still entertain.
- The lighting - I had some electrical changes made a few years ago and in that, I had recessed lighting put in...before that, I had a single light on one side of the room, a floor lamp PLUS an ott light just to get by. Not anymore!! I also use daylight bulbs, so everything is nice and bright in here.

My dislikes:
- It's closed off from everyone else so I'm separated from what goes on in the rest of the house
- There isn't enough room to fit multiple people in here easily even though my goal when I made some modifications last year was to make that happen
- There isn't a big open space in the middle for the giant work area that I would love to one day have that legitimately allows me to have multiple projects going on at once
- This room isn't what it was initially intended to be (a former owner closed off the formal living and dining areas into a bedroom...my office...and a den...hubby's office) so the air circulation sucks...it's too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter unless I crank up or down the temps for the ENTIRE downstairs.  It's easy to grab a portable heater...not so easy to grab a portable a/c, so I suffer in the hot months (I'd rather be too cold and have to layer up than too hot because there isn't much you can do about that...there's only so much you can take off, lol).

Honestly, other than the few dislikes I have that I hope to one day implement in my dream craft room (which requires a HUGE construction project...I want to close in the second story of our 2 story living room and make a family space...I'd probably occupy about 50 or 60% of the wall space and have a huge work area in the middle, but I could easily fit 3 work areas for my kids to craft and to do homework near me and my husband's office stuff would fit there with room to grow, I'm sure of it), I enjoy this room...it's not perfect, but it's more than I could have ever hoped for. It's the larger of the 'extra' rooms in the house and even though neither of us had much to fill the space when we viewed the house, hubby immediately said it was mine when I joked that we'd have to fight over who got this room. It's suited me well over the last 6 1/2 years.

Love that I have my own room with plenty of storage and desk space. Dislike that it is upstairs and the room has carpet.

I love:
- my own room with a door
- it has a bathroom attached
- that eventually in a few years we'll be rehabbing the room (We're rehabbing the entire house) and I'll get awesome lighting and electric outlets exactly where I need them. And by then, I'll know where I want it all to go.


I dislike:
- It's the only working bathroom at the moment, but this will change.
- that the room is off of the main living area.
- that there isn't enough room. The treadmill is in here as is a large unit and a bookshelf for bathroom supplies and outdoor wearing gear (hats and rain jackets in spring to fall and scarves and gloves in fall to spring). Hopefully these will get moved to the upstairs linen closet once it and the upstairs powder room is finished. Or some could go to the other bathroom downstairs when it gets redone.
- that it becomes the dumping ground when the family cleans up. Don't know what to do with it, well, it obviously goes on mom's craft desk.
- only 1 long slim window

I love having my own space. But I need another bathroom available so guests do not have to go traipsing through my messy space.

I love that I have my own room with terrific natural light.

I hate that the room is carpeted and I've allowed it to become a dumping ground instead of a retreat.

My crafting space is an sunroom enclosed porch.
Like-
More room to work
Huge table, with wheels to work on
Some storage, Im adding ikea rod and buckets selves behind a door but it's slow going into brick.
Tons of windows, can watch kid out one while I sew
Dislike-
door to backyard
I made part of room a play area for kid, but all the toys migrate over to my side
Only one lighting fixture
Huge table is covered with stuff so little space to work.
Need more storage.

It might not be pretty, but when I keep tall things in my Raskog that I don't want to flop over, I cut up old cardboard shipping boxes or use some sturdy chipboard.  If you have sets of chipaboard stickers you don't reach for often, that might work as well.

I like that I have a room with a decenty comfortable chair, TV and all my stuff. I hate the rest. the table is too big and doesn't have drawers (dining table), the furniture is a mosh mosh of pieces that don't match, it's carpeted, needs to be painted and because the table is so deep I can't go vertical in storage.

Next month, I'll be swapping out some of the storage pieces for kallax book cases. Then I need to figure out the desk/workspace situation. I'll manage that in the fall when I have some time off of work.

I love that everything is organized and in the proper area. I love that my six tiered Clip It Up olds a lot of embellishments. My furniture was all purchased for the scrap room. It is a six piece credenza and could be used in any office space. I love the colors and the big window that looks into NORAD.

I want a bigger room. The current room is a 12 x 12.

I have a kitchenette in my bedroom that I turned into my scraproom_ I've edited a few things


What I love:
It has a window
Lots of cabinets
Counter is perfect height because I stand when I scrap
I have most of the storage because I have the most stuff, but I need to quit buying because I'm running out of room and parts are unorganized

What I don't love:
Overhead lighting is terrible
Sometimes I wish the space was all mine (shared with kids, although only one uses it and she doesn't take up much room). It just gets crowded when we're in there and I can't spread out which makes it a little harder to scrap but she's a good scrapping buddy
My Cameo/computer is upstairs which makes inconvenient 
Don't have any privacy unless the fiancee is gone, but he does like me "crafting" which is great but I can get more in a flow when I'm alone


What I would love to do someday is paint the cabinets cream and put in a wood counter like we did in our kitchen. My future step dd made a great point that we have craft counters now so if they get a little messy its ok- can't argue with that!

I took a year off from my room to redo it because it was such a hot mess. I love I got rid of the furniture. I love I have rolling carts in my room now. I love the way I placed my desk. I don't feel so boxed in.

What I don't love is reorganizing all my items into new storage systems. The worst is my huge collection of paper ephemera and paper. It is taking forever. I would love another closet in my room.

Luckily it is not a dumping ground. My cats and dog bring all their toys in my room so they can play while I create. When I stand up I am always stepping on a mouse or squeaky toy.

This is a great thread!


I love:

That I even have a space to create that is all my own. My scrap area is in my bedroom. I have a door to close!

I have a desk and chair. It was such a struggle to scrap when I was leaning on my bed or trying to work on the floor.

I have a BH&G 8 cube storage unit for my albums. Though, it's nearly full since I moved all my albums from the storage attic area to my room. But I'll figure it out when it happens.

I have enough room to hold all my scrapbooking things in one room.


Cons to my room:

It's a small bedroom. Smallest one in the house. I chose a bookshelf over having a clothing dresser. I have to chose everything I bring in very carefully because there is no where to put things.

The lighting is original to the house. There is one single light fixture on the far wall from my scrapbook desk. But it was the only wall that the bed (twin size) would fit, so it is where it had to be. I should get an Ott light, but I haven't decided to dedicate money to that right now.