Where is your scrap space located?

I use an extra bedroom as my scraproom and home office... It's on the second floor so I don't have to worry about what it looks like, and when it's really messy I can close the door... It's on the west side of the house and has three windows along the west wall... It the morning the light is bright but not direct/glaring, and in the evening it's warm and cozy... There are two huge maple trees on either side of my house (one in front of each of my neighbour's), so it feels like I'm in a treehouse when I'm in there... There's a little nook where two of the windows are and I have a chair and ottoman there... My storage is IKEA cabinets - with doors so I can hide it all, and a dresser that I keep wrapping paper, cards, packing material, and gifts in... I have a small TV in there and my Mac is in there too, so I'll watch a movie on Netflix when I'm on a roll...lol

When we built our house we closed off the open entry and made it my scraproom. I scrapped upstairs for years until we finished our basement. My room is down there now and I love it. Its a disaster right now still trying to organize but its mine!

I have an open loft space at the top of the stairs (2nd story). It's nice and bright with super good lighting. I can see out the windows to the front of the house, I'm close to the upstaires family room and of course near the staircase. Downside would be that I need to keep it clean since it's so open and it isn't child proof (but my kids are older so that isn't a problem). I actually feel bad that I have such a nice place to scrap when I rarely scrapbook anymore.

My studio space is the finished basement. The WHOLE basement, except for the utility/storage space (which is mostly filled with my junk too). I work from home so it's my office as well. It's a nice big area with two sides. The one side has two large daylight windows so there is some natural light. This is the side where my desk is located and where I work for the most part. The other side has no windows which makes it nice for storing paper, fabric and anything else that I don't want to fade.

I'm in the process of getting some cabinets put in, which means I have about four weeks to move all of the stuff that has been piled up along the walls for the last two years and that won't be fun. But once the cabinets are in, I can get the shelving guy to come back to put up more wall shelves above the cabinets and I can finally get the rest of my stuff unpacked which will be VERY exciting.   I can't wait to go through all of my boxes of treasures again! Once the cabinets and shelving are in and stuff is unpacked, I can decorate and put up my huge vintage chalkboard and the wall decals I bought from Blik three years ago before we even closed on the house. That will be fun.

I'm almost as excited to get the 20+ boxes of crap that should be downstairs out of my hall closet so it can be converted into a proper mud room. It will feel good to be able to go through everything and finally get rid of all the crap I never had the time or space to go through at our old house before we moved.

I have an upstairs loft that looks down on our great room. It's perfect! I can interact with my husband while he is downstairs. Sometimes, I watch the same thing upstairs that he's watching and it's just like being together -- except that I'm getting my craft on!
We will probably be buying a new home in a year or so and our top criteria is a scrapbook room to equal this one...I'm skeptical; but hopeful.

Ground floor closet.. when we had our house built, it could either be a 1/2 bath or closet, we opted for closet cause we needed storage space... One day it dawned on me, ummm that would make a great scrapbook room..  husband was on board.  Had a counter made for it and built it and put a cabinet and shelving up.  Right now I have to pack it all up because I am now using it as a work office for awhile.  Hopefully I will get some scrapping space again... probably when my DD leaves for the Air Force next year... so longgggggg yet to fast.. lol

My ranch style house is set up so that we have a finished basement.  I have a large laundry room down there and then the rest is an L-shaped space that we use for:  the dining room, the computer center (where the boys do all their homework, the family room & the playroom (when they were little).  

I scrap at the dining room table.  I have taken over a large closet w/sliding doors for all my goodies.  

The positives are:  1) the room is large enough that I have another long folding table & large card table right next to the dining room table so I can have 3 friends over and everyone has plenty of space.  There's enough room for me to have at least one more person.  2) It's in the basement, so my creative mess is out of sight  

The negatives are:  1) if the boys are home, I am sharing the space w/them (they're teens, so can be an issue) or if they have friends over, I am out  2) I have to clear out if I'm entertaining.  It's time-consuming, annoying & puts a cramp in my mojo  3) I am outgrowing the closet and since the space is technically my dining room, I'm going to have to be very creative in my storage solution as it's going to be put right next to my china cabinet.  4) It's in the basement, so lighting is a problem.

Being in the same space as the kids was great when they were younger.  Now that they're older, I really need my own space.  So while this is doable for now, I'd be happier if I had my own room.

My scrap space is half of my office which is just a bedroom without a built in robe. I use my computer a lot while scrapping - either for printing my own photos or journaling, or for digi layouts. I have a big couch in there as well which I love. I'm close to the main areas of the house so I can scrap in between cooking or washing and am close enough to smell when the food starts burning if I've gotten a little too involved in what I'm doing. It has a south facing window which is the only drawback as the daylight is limited (I'm in the southern hemisphere) and although I could move to a room with a northern or western aspect it would put me upstairs away from everything.

Have you looked at the scrapbox? It's awesome!

I must have seen some imitation version of the scrapbox. The one I saw had cream colored opaque containers, where the scrapbox Has clear containers. The actual scrapbox is perfect. My husband is balking at the price, but I won't find anything better.

My favorite thing about my scrap room is my view straight into NORAD. We live in the foothills of the Rockies and I never get tired of the view.


Here is my view.

www.scrapbook.com/myplace/index.php?mod=galleries&u=399295&m=view&id=2308069&type=-1&size=0

Our family room is my scraproom. Sometimes I feel bad having the largest space in our house to myself, but most of the times I don't My dd has a desk in there with me and there is also a sofa and large TV so the family can join me when they want.

It does work well for me. I do share the space with the cat. He has a HUGE cat tree, his own pillow in the window, his food and his litter box in there. So I guess maybe it's the cat's room and he's just sharing with me

I have all my supplies in a Rubbermaid tub with a lid on it (my albums are in different bins, though) .

I scrap in my dining room.

I dream of having a space all my own one day.