Furniture in scrap room

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My dedicated space is painted pear green (i.e. Sherwin-Williams Hearts of Palm) with white moldings/trim & plantation shutters. It's a crisp, clean, & neutral backdrop to the dark furniture & white, orange, & pink accessories.


Furniture includes a discontinued wheat-stained Pottery Barn (PB) Bryce Project Table, two black PB Studio Wall Shelves that holds photos & supplies, a discontinued black PB Bedford 5-drawer Cabinet/flat file for stamp storage, a black/brown Ikea Expedit 2x2 as a diecut station, a black saddle stool, a PB Basic chair & ottoman with white Ikea Ektorp slipcovers, & a black-brown Ikea Lack side table. I selected furniture that wasn't scrap-specific & could be repurposed elsewhere in our home.


HTH & best wishes!

Man, Ashley, your scrap room sounds like my dream room! I love vintage style stuff!

My craft room is the smallest bedroom in the house, and has a twin sized bed set up as a day bed, for a place for my boys to flop and hang out with me in here. LOVE that they do that! I also have an antique kitchen table as my desk, it's small for a kitchen table, 48x30 but perfect for what I need. That's currently in the corner by the closet. I also have an ugly 6 ft long folding table, that I have against the wall and underneath the 3 wood shelves I have mounted on the wall. I have burlap thrown over it as a tablecloth, and then over that is clear vinyl9?) used for table cloths or something, I bought it at walmart from a huge roll.  I can dirty it up and wipe it off without messing up the burlap underneath.  This is where my computer and printer are. When the room is being used for company, I will take down the folding table and move the antique table into it's spot underneath the wall shelves, to give more floor space, and I move the wicker chair from the gameroom in for our guests. ( side note- which is actually done way more than I had anticipated! My daughter lives in another state and visits a couple times a year, my sister has stayed with me, and a friend is coming down from Chicago next month. Who knew I had so many single, traveling chicks that actually like me!??)

I keep ALL my scrapbook and craft stuff in the closet, nothing is stored in the room itself other than my photo boxes that take up one of the shelves. In the closet, I took out the rods and have 5 wire shelves along the length of the closet, and have removed the sliding doors. ( That was an accident, way back when this was my youngest son's room - he kept pinching his fingers in the doors so we took them off) Now I just have a shower curtain tension rod with a sheet hanging off it for a closet door, which is usually pulled off to one side and draped over a hook on the wall so I can see and get to my stuff.

The walls, my son's sweet girlfriend helped me paint them a beautiful tranquil blue this summer. LOVE it, with the warm wood of the desk, and wheat colored simple window panels. I love the rustic-ish, vintage beachy vibe. Not that you asked about it, but above the daybed, I have a collection of my favorite beach photos taken on various vacations through the years. I adore this room, it by far reflects my loves and taste more than any other room in my house. Smallest room in the house, but it's where all four of us plus the two dogs can be found hanging out together. Go figure.

I won't have my room for a few more weeks, until we move in and change out the carpet up there, but here's the plan for my little space in the attic:

My computer and printer will sit on a desk made from a door and two file cabinets. I have a really crappy chair I bought from Staples last year, and the pleather is all cracked and flaking off. I know "you get what you pay for," but really? Less than a year and it looks horrible. Still functions though.

My work space will be an old kitchen table that's very sturdy. I have some wooden chairs I'm going to paint in bright colors. I'm also going to have an old toybox for extra seating, and inside I'll be keeping giftwrap, bows, and bags. 

Behind the table, against the wall, I'll have two white 2x4 Expedit units, both horizontal. Unfortunately, I'll only get to use 8 of the 16 cubbies for craft stuff because the bottom row will be used to store sleeping bags and extra blankets. On top of the Ikea shelves I plan to keep a bunch of Sterilite 12x12 three drawer units. I'm not sure how many, but they'll probably be stacked two units high. I have some cubes I want to fit on that wall too, maybe on the ends? I'll see what I have for room when it's all in place.

On another wall, I'm also going to have a small bookshelf to keep extra school supplies for the kids, and a Raskog cart to keep next to my table.

And in another corner, I'll have a bed for when my mom comes to visit.

Other than that, I'll have one odd piece. We have a sectional sofa that is getting a makeover in the family room. Instead of setting it up as intended, with 2 seats plus 3 seats plus the corner, I'm turning it into a 5 cushion straight line sofa and keeping the corner piece in my craft room for 11 yo DD to snuggle up on. And I'll give her a little table for her laptop so she can plug in near me. 



ETA: My walls are some shade of off white right now. I don't know what I should paint them. Some kind of "greige" neutral, I suppose.

What a great piece. I'd love to see a photo of your room. Sounds like it has so much character.  

My room is cream color with one accent wall painted tomato red.
My furniture consists of a Espresso 4x4 Expedit, a vintage oak dresser painted black.
My table is a vintage post office work bench, approximately 3x5 (a little smaller) and is counter height.
I have 15 cubes from Target, from the home dept. along one wall for all my paper, tools etc. These are bigger than the scrap cubes.
I have 3 more cubes tucked into a corner next to the Expedit.
I also have a small little four drawer chest, from my childhood bedroom.
And one more piece that is my old changing table that is now my die cutting station.
I also have 5 wooden drawer sets that Ikea used to sell.
And my Raskog cart that is my tool caddy.
And my room is small, just a little bigger than 9x10.
It is a tight fit, but I make it work.
My room used to be slightly bigger, but I traded rooms with my son to be closer to the kitchen/family area. I now have a bigger window for lots of light and a beautiful ocean view.

Daughtryfan, that is beautiful!! A great find!

Wow Mary, that is a GREAT cabinet find!

My room is really piecemeal with absolutely zero charm.

My expedit, desk and Alex unit are the things I couldn't live without.
I have a kitchen table as my desk. My Alex (Ikea) fits under, although I keep my cameo on it, so I only push it party under. It's one of my favourite pieces. My other favourite is my expedit with all my pps and stamps and pictures and albums in it. Within reach of my desk too.

I have the cubes from M's but they hold older/less used stuff.

My walls are a cheerful warm yellow, important since I'm in the basement with ZERO windows!!!
So I guess I'd have to add that my Ott lights (1 floor model, 2 desk) are pretty important too

I'm hoping to do my new space in a cream color for the walls. The room has only 1 narrow window and not much light. Plus I like to display photos, thought my original sage green would clash with those. But I've been going back and forth between built-in cabinets, just open shelving (I love seeing everything), and finally shabby chic styled. I flip back and forth, but I really want the vintage finds with a shabby touch so I'll be hitting garage sales and junk stores in the spring. Until then, I'll use what I have which is just regular cheap-o bookcases on the side. My standing work surface, which will not change unless I build one myself, is rubber maid cubes with melamine board on top. That is so functional and I've really enjoyed it.

My walls are a peachy color, window treatments are gray velvet.
* Large custom-made farmhouse work table with the X legs
* Large 7 x 7 cupboard that was custom made to look like one at the local Anthro store
* Industrial chic sofa table
* 3 drawer printer stand (also an Anthro knock off of their popular ordinal chest).
* A pink visitors chair (World Market)

Right now I have a lot of stuff just sitting around not put away or organized, so I can't tell you if the room is actually functional or not, but it has furnishings that make it feel more like a room and less like an office or kitchen.

I will have to take some current pictures later today. Right now it looks like a bomb went off! 

My house is traditional southwestern style (I live in NM), so lots of wood and colorful mexican tile. 

Wow, that sounds AWESOME, Ashley!

ETA: Mary, I LOVE that cabinet! That was a great find.

my walls are a violet color and the ceiling is blue - love it, my 'girly' space that dh had no say in.

I have Ikea cabinets along the walls...with their butcher block for my work surface
also 2 Ikea shelves and an older silver colored bakers rack for my cricut 'center'

Right now I also have an 'island' created by putting 2 microwave carts back to back (where my cutterpillar sits) BUT that will change once my kids move out and their bedroom becomes my crafting 'overflow' room.

My scrap room is in what is supposed to be our formal dining room, but we're not the dinner party type and I don't see the sense in having a formal space I will never use. Now, it gets used every day! I have a kitchen island with a butcher block top that I use as my primary work surface that I got from Big Lots a few years back. It sits in the center of the room angled so that I can see out the window, see into the kitchen and see into the living room. Then I have an old kitchen table and chairs that we use as the art/homework table so the kids can do their work in the afternoon and not have to move everything off the kitchen table for dinner. It's on the wall to the left. My girls also like to sit there and do projects when I'm in there at night or on the weekends doing my scrappy stuff. I have what I think is supposed to be a microwave cart that is made out of stainless steel that I use as a printer stand and my Cricut fits nicely on one of the lower shelves. Got that cart on super clearance at Target for $15 3 or 4 years ago. It lives to the right of the window. Then I have some Jetmax cubes (9 total) that are stacked 3 high that fit nicely under my window and that's where my Project Life stuff lives. All my other supplies are in a 7 drawer tall Sterilite drawer thingy. I have to have a place for everything and put everything away to start with a clean and neat space or else I get distracted by the clutter! I know a lot of people are the opposite and have to see everything at once, but not me. My walls are painted a medium slate gray with lots of blue/green undertones, so it changes throughout the day depending on the light. It's a Valspar color called Peaceful that I got from Lowe's. Since the room is the dining room, there's also white wainscoting, so the blue is only on half of the walls. It's a bit of a hodgepodge, but it works for now.