Where oh where do you scrap?

When we built our house (ten years ago), I had a scraploft included in the design. My hubby shares 1/2 of the desk (it is a square desk with two seating areas facing one another) but the rest is mine and I love it!

I'm in my basement in a 12x36 room. It's kinda laid out in three areas, a TV room in the front, my scraproom in the middle and my WFH office at the other end. I have three of the dark brown Ikea Expedits and one Kallax along one wall, an Ikea desk with my home computer, two tables - one for scrapping and one with my WFH set up, and a stand-up desk from Costco. I like being able to scrap and watch TV but my table is only 5' long. I'd like to get something bigger. I found out after buying the stand up table that I don't like standing to scrap. So that has my cutting machines on it and all my Sizzix dies, my Selphy.

I need to go through my stuff and organize it better. The Expedits/Kallax cubes are full and stuff is starting to pile up on the floor. I need to have it done before the March Crop & Create event!

I do cardmaking stuff at an antique desk in the corner of the dining room which is the central room of our little house. The rooms are all in a big circle, no hallways, so the dining room is kind of like a hallway between the living room, kitchen, office bedroom, which you have to walk through to get to the Jack and Jill bathroom. Nothing is more than 20 paces from anything else and my space is visible from almost everywhere in the house.

Here and there I do digital scrapping at that desk but usually I kneel at a Japanese style dining table in front of the TV in the living room. I have a little kneeling stool so my feet don’t go to sleep.

Sometimes I wish I had my own space with walls and a door and enough space for my die cutter and paper trimmer to be on my desk at the same time, but what I have works pretty well and actually looks quite nice.

I usually am on these types of threads immediately because they are some of my favorites. I missed this one--so great that you bumped it, Linda.

I live in a 120-year-old house close to downtown. It's just my husband and I, but the house has three bedrooms and two floors. We turned the upstairs into a guest suite/Scrap Attic. There's a kitchenette up there with a microwave and mini fridge as well as kitchen cabinets and a sink. Then there is a full bath and a small guest bedroom. Other than the bedroom and bathroom, the entire upstairs, probably around 400 SF or so, is my scrap attic. I use the kitchen sink to clean up my paper crafty messes, and the cabinets are all filled with my stuff. There's a TV up there and a recliner, and a large-ish scrap desk that we made from a piece of wood and two Ikea sawhorse table supports. There are two reach-in closets. We took the doors off both. One became the office for my long-time WFH job, and the other holds more supplies. I changed careers two years ago, so I no longer work from home. That office-closet is now a space for my crafty electronics and our household paperwork.

It's currently a huge mess up there right now so I can't take photos without shame, but I've shared some old ones here before. What's in those photos is mostly still accurate, though I changed out the scrap desktop for something smaller so I could move around more easily, and I've added or moved a few things around.

Overview of the room from opposite the entrance by Seanna., on Flickr


Kitchen side of the room by Seanna., on Flickr

Standing near the secret bookcase door by Seanna., on Flickr

The double doors visible in this photo are no longer there. That's one of the closets, the one we turned into a WFH office after I decided to move upstairs during the pandemic. My husband was suddenly working from home, coordinating hearings (loudly) in the living room, and I needed quiet to do my job. So now we have an awesome, gorgeous office-closet. Another cool thing is that white bookcase that looks like a built-in next to the double closet doors on the right? That is a secret door that leads to the unfinished part of the attic. It's a fun feature of our home that I never grow tired of. Who would?

Standing near the entrance of the room by Seanna., on Flickr

On the same desk that I WFH on. SO I usually only scrap on weekends.

Before we moved, I scrapped wherever worked. We had a small house, and “wherever worked” changed as needed. Then I started scrapbooking with friends. We scrapped at the LSS when we had one, then changed to the library after the LSS closed, and later to various homes, until 3 of us moved to different states. Now I scrapbook in my craft room. It’s really nice to have one. I get more done when I craft alone, with no distractions.

Here is the desk/table area.