Craft Storage Most Popular | Alex - from IKEA - the most used craft storage unit?

When I recently had a look through my Pinterest Crafty Storage board to see what kept reappearing.

And the most popular item was the Alex drawer unit from IKEA. (Links for the UK IKEA site, search Alex on the main page of IKEA)

There is of course the tall thin version as well.

There are literally hundreds of units used by crafters and artists, and I cant feature them all but here there are some of my favourite photos of the Alex used to store crafts. ( Click on the photos for the link to their blog post for more photos and/or explanation!)

Anna's is one of my favourite as she has creatively remove the top two drawers to create an extra open tall drawer at the top.

Amy makes it a lovely sewing area desk unit.

I like how inside all these drawers there are extra organisers for smaller items, idea from Caprice.

Anita's used three of them to create a working island. Perfect for those die cutting machine as well as trimmer area.

Ikea Hackers has also a step by step tutorial on how to decoupage with old maps one of these popular units.

There is even a Flickr gallery (highly recommended) and a Hero Arts Flickr discuss groups on the Height and depth of them, Alex wide here and the tall and thin here. 

Or a Splitcoasters Thread on them which again I highly recommend to visit as it discusses the height of the drawers.

Kristina Werner has even done a video on hers:



Well, I have got one of those units and I have to say it lives up to the hype!

Andrea's Studio

 Andrea submitted her studio a few weeks ago and immediately wanted to featured it but I wanted to do it properly so it has taken me a few weeks to find the time to do so.

The room is 11 x 10.

One thing I loved is that Andrea has a lot of tools that are usually hard to store but she has them out and ready to use without being an eye sore.

Like all the die cutting materials.

I love this trolley to store paper by colour.

You can see far more photos on Andrea's Flickr. Click here to go to there.

From games room to a craft room: Banu's craft room

A lovely room, you will agree, and it is much better to have a craft room than a games room!

Click here for the full post over at Banu's blog.

From spare room to craft room

I suppose this is what happens to most spare room when a crafter is in the house.

Click here to read the story and see more photos.

Debbie's room

Debbie's room is so pretty! The room is 15' 4" x 15' 4" and has a L shape.

And look how she has her Cricut cartridges. Isn't just so adorable?

Love the day bed behind the table.

Click here for more.

Denise's multipurpose studio

I will let Maryse explain her friend's studio.

Denise's studio is a room that has 3 purposes : laundry, nails and scrapbooking.  She chose the three wall fixtures specifically because they allow her an easy access to her favorite accessories such as flowers, lace and ribbons.  All while decorating the room for her customers.  

It is important that the working space of a "scrapbooker" is set-up in a way that everything will be organized to allow him to know exactly where is everything at all times, allowing his creative side to work freely.  

The room is 12' X 11'2 (feet).

Click here for more info!

Paula's craft room

Paula's craft room is 12ft x 12ft approx. 

Click here for more photos and ideas!

And click here to know more about her Promarker storage.

Kirsty's Craft Room Tour

Kirsty has invited us all to take a tour of her craft room - although she calls it her dungeon as it takes up almost the entire basement! - take a look at this for organisation!

This is Kirsty's ink storage:


Some of her button and ribbon storage



Click here to visit Kirsty's blog for the full tour.

Margy Vogel-Coomer storage

When I received Margy's submission I loved the way that she had selected a colour combination, Red and off white, as well as a shabby chic rustic look.

I am specially in love with this library card storage conversion.

Melanie's studio

Melanie has posted on her blog a tour of her studio.

It is full of clever of good storage ideas.

It is here.

Spices & Buttons?

What does this (see pictures below) have to do with Crafty Storage?

A few months ago I decided that it was time to get my spices off the counter. Living in a condo, we have limited space in our small kitchen. So, I made some tins to hang on the fridge. That left me with an empty spice rack. It's no longer taking up space on our kitchen counter, instead, it's in our spare room (my make-shift craft room).

The spice rack is happy to hold colorful embellishments now!

Do you have any "unusual" crafty storage advice? I would love to hear from others! :)

- anne...just because

More Card Candy

This is another idea on how to store the Card Candy. I do admit that I am hooked on this product, so I have masses of it. As I am crafter by colour, I like to have my card candy organized by the colour spectrum, rather than collection of colours. So I use an ArtBin Solutions Box (4006AB) to store my Card Candy. By the way, dividing the card candy by colour is a job for only patient people.

This way I know when I have too many of a particular colour and not enough of another. And as you know I am storage fan -how, otherwise, would you explain the existence of this blog?- the Card Candy Storage box gets recycled for other uses.

So, what did I do with the Candy Store? Well, I use it to store other items like buttons or ribbon, or die cut shapes.

It is actually perfect to store small embellishments such as beads or brads. By the way, Craftwork Cards sells those ribbon boxes.