The Odd Girl's craft room

Kristy the "Odd girl" is an illustrator who is not odd at all, back in July she revamped her studio cleverly using a closet storage system.





For a more detailed view of Kristy's room visit her blog post for more on Kristy, her site is at www.theoddgirl.com

Elizabeth's closet

A couple of days ago I posted a dinner cabinet refurbishment. Today,  we share this closet recycled into a perfect scrapbooking storage area.

Elizabeth recently removed the closet doors and changed a linen closet into a scrapbook storage area. We have had other entries with closets, but it is nice to be reminded of this simple idea, which I think is easy to do as long as you have large closets without any clothes in them.

Heather's craft room

Heather's room is full of craft tools and goodies.

This is what Heather says about her room.

My room is 5 ft x 9 ft with a 2 ft x 3 ft Cutout "Closet" area.  I have a 4ft Pony Wall that seperates my husbands side of the office with the same dimensions.  We converted 1/2 of our garage to make this space, and had our contractor put in the window.  He built doors around our Furnace and Hot Water Tank.

Click here for a lot more photos!

Patty's play room/studio

Although Patty says that this is her play room rather than her studio. Well, to me it does not make a difference, this is the room where she creates and by the looks of it also relaxes. Crafting is for many of us a hobby and the main aim of a hobby should be to enjoy, relax and play. And I think this is a room that offers just that.

This is what Patty says about her space:

 Even though I don’t do a whole lot of designing,  I do love to make all my cards and have enough supplies to make them for life!! I needed to recycle things I already owned when I was able to move my craft room in to my daughter’s old room (redecorated for me!), and I wanted most everything to be in the closet. I picked up a few inexpensive items – the hanging jewelry organizers, the cube units, and my big splurge was a cart made especially for housing 12 x 12 papers.  I have most of my fun organizing and reorganizing the stuff, and I love to try to let the supplies show through in the containers I do have out, letting their fun colors be part of the décor. 

The room is 14' x 14'.
Click here for a lot more photos and explanation from Patty on what and why she stores crafty stuff.

a few small changes can make a HUGE difference...

Over the last 18 months or so, we have gone through our tiny condo and put in some storage shelving in each of the closets.  It's helped SO MUCH!  Although the pictures below are not specific to my crafting space, you still get the idea.  It might cost a little up-front (please keep in mind that we didn't use anything fancy...just a few options from our local Home Depot), but extra space is totally worth it!  :)

Click here for more details!

If you've got some before and after pictures of your closet re-organization, please leave a link in your comment.  I would love to see what you've done.

-Anne