1. This is the entrance to my scrap room from the kids’ play room. The scrap room was a storage room for the previous home owners. It’s “unfinished space” but had sheet rock, a ceiling and carpet (ugly and cheap as it is!) already in it. There are two sets of bi-fold doors but we only use the one left set and they stay open now that the kids are older.
2. View from when you first walk in the room. Kids’ craft/art area is to the right and my stuff is in the back half – my table I work on to the right and my sewing table to the left along with a shelf I use to store things.
3. Kids’ craft area – they have a shelf with supplies. The “window” is the entrance to our crawl space under the house. We have a ˝ basement which was all finished when we bought the house. There is an old school desk beside their shelf of supplies and behind the card table you are looking at. The window treatment was used in Elizabeth and Andrew’s nursery at our previous house. Wade wanted to keep a room in our new house the same color of our children’s nursery so we would always remember that color. ??? So it got to be in my scrap room which I don’t mind – it’s not a bright yellow as it’s showing in some of these photos but more of a light buttery yellow. My “dream” scrap room will not have this color though; it will have to be in his workshop or something!
I used pillows from their nursery in my room too.
4. View from my desk – a large cabinet which houses more craft supplies for the kids, a few scrapbook supplies, gift-wrapping supplies, and my photo boxes and other miscellaneous things (junk!). Our cat also sort of shares this room with her litter box (lower left corner) and that door to the far left goes under the steps. That’s the thing with this room – working with all of the doorways (four to be exact!!). The shelf to the right has my completed albums, idea books and past issues of magazines.
5. Standing in front of the kids’ supply shelf. You see my sewing table (stereo under that), my shelf with supplies (and my LCD TV!!), etc. I have my thread kept in an old toilet paper holder that someone made and gave us when we were married. I spray painted it white. My “diploma” from CKU Nashville (in March 2004) hangs above my sewing table (sort of as a joke and sort of b/c it reminds me of how much I enjoy this hobby).
6. View from my desk – that door goes to my husband’s workshop. See my little space heater on the blue crate? LOL In the summer, my scrap room is the perfect temperature but in the winter it stays probably around 64 degrees down there (b/c there are no heat ducts in that room) so I use the space heater.
7. Another view of my shelf and how I store my scraps which I had posted on another thread. Top shelf has a few cards I’ve made and a photo of the kids; the second shelf is my TV; and the third shelf has miscellaneous things and my Quickutz tool and binder sit on top of the plastic storage drawers. The last to the bottom shelf has my CM cutters, my embellishments I store by color, fabric swatches, silent eyelet setter, acrylic paint, etc. Bottom shelf has two plastic boxes – one has my inkpads and one has my alpha stamps, the blue thin thing has all my ABC embellishments organized in it by letter.
8. My six foot table I work on (and it’s never this neat!! LOL) with a bunch of stuff to the side of it. I need to buy another shelf to go there and organize those things that lay in the floor there. To my left when I work is my cork board where I keep new embellishments and old ones that I want to try to use up.
9. This is how I store my paper. Although it’s not very pretty to look at, it IS very functional and was cheap ($30 at Staples). It rolls under my table when not in use to keep dust from settling on the paper. (I’ve never had this problem in my room but just in case.) At the time when I bought this, I could not find 12x12 hanging files so I made my own from regular legal file folders (just cut them and taped). It also has two sliding drawers under it that I don’t use effectively and it has a place for 8.5x11 hanging files which holds what is left of that.
This is for our thread on "dream scrap spaces or rooms" in the discussion forum.
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