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Hello and Happy Tuesday! I know I am a little late with the reveal, but alas I finally get to share my Craft Room Challenge Reveal with you!

If you recall my craft room was absolutely non- existent when we first started this challenge at the beginning of the month and it took me a little bit to figure out the direction I wanted to go, but after adding my Hamptons Farmhouse touches and refinishing a few key pieces in the space, it began coming along.

So let’s take a quick look at this room used to be… it was dark and a hot mess.

Yep… (insert gasp here😱)

But now it looks totally different and I love it!

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If you would rather watch the video tour you can check it out here:

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With the white paint on the walls, the stenciled accent wall, the new blinds, refurbished furniture trash that is no longer crowding the space, and unwanted items donated….

I can now say that I have a craft space that I can truly enjoy .

I built my IKEA table and added a custom skirt that I made so that it would hide a couple of storage bins behind it.

The table had a little bit of space underneath the top so that I could fit a skinny tension curtain rod for a skirt. It was one of the reasons I chose that particular table.

One the other side of the table I added this old plastic drawer bin for more storage.

I used the same contact paper that I used for my faux wood centerpiece in order to hide the items inside and give it a clean look. I didn’t remove the backing on it and just adhered it to the front of the drawers (on the inside) with double sided sticky tape.

Then I hot glued antique brass plated label holders that I purchased at Michael’s, but you can also buy similar ones here. And I printed some labels from my printer.

The reason I hot glued them is because if I ever need to use this elsewhere, I could just pop the label holders off very easily. 

I also faced the drawers out to the side so that it gave me more leg room whenever I sat at the table. And with the skirt you won’t even know it’s there. 😉

I added these fabric bins below from my favorite online dollar store, Hollar, to the bookcases I transformed  and I love how I was able to organize some of my fabrics and some projects that I will be working on very shortly.

Check out Hollar here to get a $5 credit off your first purchase.

On the top of this bookcase, I have the fabric scrap jar (with a ton of scraps already)…

And next to it is my craft organizer carousel  that I got from Hobby Lobby. They don’t have it on their site, but here is a similar one at Michael’s. I store my scissors, paint brushes, glue sticks etc. in it.

There are also other options here.

 

On the other bookcase, I used these clear bins that I purchased at Michael’s (normally used to store 12×12 sheets of paper) so that I can keep my projects together as I work on them.

 

So for instance, if I cannot finish something right away, I can still put everything away together and get back to it quickly since all of the items are stored in one bin. Then once the project is complete, I can put everything back in its place.

 

On top of this bookcase I added a gorgeous metal basket I got from Wal Mart and filled it with my corks. I created a cork wreath  a long time ago (you probably have seen it on Pinterest), and I had these left over and I am still trying to figure out what to make next.

Any suggestions????

Then for fun and a little bit of decor I added this letter board that I got for ONLY $9.97 (say what!?!?) at my local Wal Mart. You can find it here.

On the wall, I placed a slender curtain rod to hang my stencils and my fabric pieces as I cut them down. This way they won’t crease or get too wrinkled and my stencils can remain flat.

I laid my Expedit shelves sideways on the opposite wall and sewed little “skirts” to cover the shelves but still have everything really accessible.

My friend Marie The Inspiration Vault suggested I use velcro command strips on the shelves and with the help of adhesive velcro ironed onto the fabric I can make the skirts removable with no damage to the unit.

I gave the IKEA spice racks a weathered look to match the cute clock I bought at Big Lots.

And I added some inspirational items and color swatches to the cork board for some projects I plan on tackling soon.

 

I added command hooks to the wall next to it so I could hang my wreaths.

I added this farmhouse style mouse pad for whenever I work on my posts in my craft room.

 

I also have my planner in my craft room so I can stay organized and plan my projects ahead. FYI… this planner is on sale RIGHT NOW for $13 off if you are still looking for one for yourself. You can purchase them here.

 

Then finally I still have my little wooden cabinet on the other side of the room and I store paint, glue, glitter, ribbon and some unfinished crafts in there.

I also have a huge roll of burlap that I ordered a long time ago and need to make something with. Stay tuned for a DIY!

 

So that is it for now. I didn’t use a couple of items that I purchased from IKEA since at the moment I don’t have a need for them, but if anything changes, I will make sure to share!

I hope this has inspired you to create your own fun craft room or has shown you different ways to use items or reuse things you already have at home.

This was as much fun as it was hard to complete. But I am truly grateful for this challenge.

Now I have a great space to call my very own and I can get creative all day long!

I would love to hear what your favorite part of the room is! Let me know your thoughts below!

 

 

 

Welcome to the 2018 Craft Room Challenge! From January 3rd through January 31st, 14 crafty bloggers will be sorting, organizing, cleaning, and decorating their craft spaces. Each of us has a very different craft space to tackle, so chances are you will find one similar to yours. We’d love for you to join in on the fun challenge and clean right alongside us. Follow along and join in on social media by using #craftroomchallenge and #confessyourmess. You can also find us and the challenge via our social media accounts you’ll see listed on each of our sites. We’ll also have 15-minute mini daily challenges for you in case you have limited time to dedicate to the challenge. We hope you share your messy spaces and progress with us so we don’t feel alone this month!

Before you see the rest of the crafty spaces, please meet our lovely hosts:

Marie & Aleisha from The Inspiration Vault • Pam from P.S. I Love You Crafts

Yami from The Latina Next Door • Jolene from Create Pray Love

Habiba from Craftify My Love • Lyne from The Paper Addict

Megan from C’Mon Get Crafty • Erlene from My Pinterventures

Shirley from Intelligent Domestications • Valerie from Val Event Gal

Michelle from Our Crafty Mom • Rebecca from The Moments at Home

Stephanie from Crafty Ladybug Creations

Now, let’s take a look at their craft rooms and spaces! 

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Okay, so I am a little late with the update. But alas, I am here and I have finally made progress!

It seems like all I have done is paint and purge. My bookcases that I transformed look even better than I thought. And they ended up looking perfect on either side of the window.

To get the same look on your bookshelves you can watch my video tutorial here.

And I am sure you noticed that back wall!

I stenciled it and it turned out great!

I did this same stencil in my last home in the breakfast area and I shared how I did it.

Since this is my third go-around with stenciling (my last one was the laundry room floor) I will be adding a complete tutorial on my YouTube channel as well as sharing all of my tips & tricks on getting that same faux cement tile look.

I will go over everything so stay tuned!

Now, I am excited because I finally get to organize!!!!!

I bought several things to help me out so far and I wanted to share a few of them with you. I hope to use everything, but you never know until you actually start so I may or may not keep everything.

First up I got these cute spice jars and spice rack at Ikea.

These are good for buttons, safety pins, rubber bands, etc. and at $2.79 for 4 of them you just can’t beat that!

 

Next, I got these Sunnersta containers along with their rods to mount on the wall.

I know you have probably seen these below:

Well the Sunnersta collection is a much more inexpensive option.

The metal buckets above cost $5.99 a piece. The rail costs $8.99 and the hooks cost $2.99 a pair.

Meanwhile the Sunnersta container costs $0.79 and the rail only $1.99. Plus they don’t need hooks.

Then I purchased the items below as well:

I purchased the lazy susan (top left) to hold scissors etc. and I was able to purchase it at Hobby Lobby for 50% off!

I tried to find it on their site with no luck, but they have a similar one at Michael’s.

Then I purchased the large glass container (top right)  at Target so I can keep my scrap fabric handy whenever I need to practice a particular stitch.

And finally I purchased 6 of the gray fabric bins from my favorite online store Hollar. These were only $3 each and they are super durable!

Get $5 off your first purchase by using my link here.

Next I need to built my work table and start putting everything together. Let me know what you think so far below!

Stay tuned for the stencil video and next week’s update!

 

Welcome to the 2018 Craft Room Challenge! From January 3rd through January 31st, 14 crafty bloggers will be sorting, organizing, cleaning, and decorating their craft spaces. Each of us has a very different craft space to tackle, so chances are you will find one similar to yours. We’d love for you to join in on the fun challenge and clean right alongside us. Follow along and join in on social media by using #craftroomchallenge and #confessyourmess. You can also find us and the challenge via our social media accounts you’ll see listed on each of our sites. We’ll also have 15-minute mini daily challenges for you in case you have limited time to dedicate to the challenge. We hope you share your messy spaces and progress with us so we don’t feel alone this month!

Before you see the rest of the crafty spaces, please meet our lovely hosts:

Marie & Aleisha from The Inspiration Vault • Pam from P.S. I Love You Crafts

Yami from The Latina Next Door • Jolene from Create Pray Love

Habiba from Craftify My Love • Lyne from The Paper Addict

Megan from C’Mon Get Crafty • Erlene from My Pinterventures

Shirley from Intelligent Domestications • Valerie from Val Event Gal

Michelle from Our Crafty Mom • Rebecca from The Moments at Home

Stephanie from Crafty Ladybug Creations

Now, let’s take a look at their craft rooms and spaces!

 

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Well, we have made it to Week #3 and things have been super hectic at our house…. it all started with sick kiddos… yep! We are still battling to get back to 100% and tomorrow schools have been closed due to inclement weather.

I do have a little of good news and more bad news….

Good news first though.

I purged and it feels so good!

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You can also check out the video recap of Week 2 & 3 along with a shopping haul for supplies below!

 

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You don’t realize how much junk you have until you go through it. I had so many things I hadn’t used in years!

• Easter lights!
• Empty bottles.
• Yogurt containers for a long forgotten project.
• Yarn ( I don’t even crochet or knit!).
• Ribbon.
• Leftover “thank you” cards from our wedding. 😱
• And some plain ole trash!

Out they went to either to a donation box or the trash.

I am super happy about this. I do know there are a couple of other boxes down in the basement to go through, but honestly, I won’t get to those anytime soon so the boxes in the main level will have to do. Plus, really, there are only 2. I can handle those once my room is complete.

Other great news is that I finally got my paint order in! Check out this lovely shade of blue.

 

I am using this milk paint to change the look of these bookcases that will go in the craft room for storage.

Bad news is I have never worked with true milk paint before and I have hit some snags. But I will work through it and update these babies like I had hoped. It’s definitely a learning process so I will take it as that. However, everything keeps to be dragging so I have gotten a little frustrated these past couple of days.

But on a better note, I think I have finally found my decor style!

You ready?

I love the farmhouse style that Fixer Upper has brought to us,  but I also love coastal decor with a touch of sophistication kinda like the Hamptons… so I’m naming my style Hamptons Farmhouse… not sure if that’s a thing, but I’m keeping it. LOL!

Let’s just hope I can actually get what’s in my head to translate into my work. No pressure, right?

I hope to share their transformation next week so stay tuned! I am determined to get them done.

And finally, you remember the white walls I shared in last week’s post?

I am giving them an upgrade! To the tune of this…

So this week I am focusing on the following:

• Finishing my projects
• Setting furniture back in place
• Throwing away more items I don’t need.
• Start grouping things to make them easier for storing.

I would love to hear what your thoughts are so far!

 

 

Welcome to the 2018 Craft Room Challenge! From January 3rd through January 31st, 14 crafty bloggers will be sorting, organizing, cleaning, and decorating their craft spaces. Each of us has a very different craft space to tackle, so chances are you will find one similar to yours. We’d love for you to join in on the fun challenge and clean right alongside us. Follow along and join in on social media by using #craftroomchallenge and #confessyourmess. You can also find us and the challenge via our social media accounts you’ll see listed on each of our sites. We’ll also have 15-minute mini daily challenges for you in case you have limited time to dedicate to the challenge. We hope you share your messy spaces and progress with us so we don’t feel alone this month!

Before you see the rest of the crafty spaces, please meet our lovely hosts:

Marie & Aleisha from The Inspiration Vault • Pam from P.S. I Love You Crafts

Yami from The Latina Next Door • Jolene from Create Pray Love

Habiba from Craftify My Love • Lyne from The Paper Addict

Megan from C’Mon Get Crafty • Erlene from My Pinterventures

Shirley from Intelligent Domestications • Valerie from Val Event Gal

Michelle from Our Crafty Mom

Now, let’s take a look at their craft rooms and spaces!

 

*Some of the links below may be affiliate links, please see full disclosure here*

Hey there! So we are strutting along with this craft room challenge this week and I will say that I am not as ahead as I thought I would be. But I have good excuses, I swear!

So if you recall, from last week’s post (Week #1), my craft room was a dark hot mess, so we took everything out.

>>>If you would rather see this on video you can watch below!<<<

I purposefully did not edit this picture because I wanted you to see how dark it was on a full sunny day. I just couldn’t handle it.

We prepped the floors and walls by putting down our favorite tape and plastic combo – we love this stuff cause it goes right on your baseboards and you pull the plastic out easily. No need for bulky drop cloths.

Go here to check them out.

We used Pure White by Sherwin Williams in satin since I had a gallon and a half left over from another project (we also used that white on these walls in my office), however, these walls soaked up every bit of the paint.

So we had to buy more which I was not expecting and apply a total of 4, yes 4, coats.

We would have used primer, but since the paint we used has primer in it and we used it in the office we thought it would be okay…. but boy, were we wrong! 🙄

Here it was after the first coat (I had already cut the room twice) …

So there is the first reason I’m not as far as I would have liked.

Also, let’s talk about the “boutique” light fixture that gave out no light…

This picture is unedited and you can see how dark it is.

We removed the light to paint the ceiling and almost burned out fingers off it was so hot! I was not comfortable with that at all even though it had insulation between the light fixture and the ceiling (my husband used to be an electrician and he says that insulation is sometimes placed there to help with light fixtures that get too hot).

I was like hell naw!

That was not going back up. So I totally went shopping for a light fixture. It was a little bit of a splurge in my mind, but oh so worth it!

Check this baby out along with my new white walls.

Here is a close -up…

You can check out the specs of the light fixture here.

It comes in a larger four bulb and a smaller one bulb size.

It’s from the Boswell Quarter Collection. They didn’t have any at my local store so we had to drive a little farther to get it. They only had 2 on hand so we had to make that a priority.

QUICK TIP: For items like this that aren’t necessarily seen on floors or are of limited quantities, make sure to order online and schedule a store pick-up. This ensured that they had it there when we arrived and they take it to customer service for you so you DON’T have to go looking for it and waste time. 

Boswell Quarter Collection Light

I added Eddison bulbs to give it that rustic feel.

Here is the rest of the progress. The walls look so much better now!

I ended up moving my IKEA shelves to the side wall and put it on its side. I was going to use the table that attached to it originally but then decided against it because it wasn’t that large and I wasn’t happy being stuck in a corner.

So I purchased a new table from IKEA (the MELLTORP) instead and it was only $65.

I purchased it for several reasons…

• The first, it was cheap (cause I was already over my budget).
• The second, it was white and I need a white surface for my crafting videos on my YouTube channel.
• There is a third, but I want to make sure I can do what I am thinking first because I tell you, so I will come back to that when I test it out. 😉

Here is the other side of the room. I still have not added the outlet plates yet on that wall, because that wall is too bland and I need to do something to it…. something else I’m adding to my plate, I know!

That bookshelf was supposed to have been painted by now, but the paint I ordered was on back order…. of course it was! So there it sits, waiting for the makeover.

As you can see, we replaced the sun burnt blinds with this bamboo shade. I used this because I already had it (for several years I might add and my husband was about to throw it out) and it fit the window…. so at least I was able to save some money there.

But the wall looks so plain now. I have an idea of what I want to do, but I want to leave it as a surprise so be sure to check in next week to see what I came up with.

So obviously there are things I need to finish from last week and need to do this week.

Craft Room Challenge Week 2

• I need to add character to the blank wall
• Install wall plates
• Paint the bookshelves
• Build the IKEA table
• Purge all outdated fabric
• Get rid of craft supplies that I have not used in years
• Get rid of trash
• Make sure all supplies work (like pens etc. and only keep the ones that are in good shape)

Whew! This week is going to be hectic! Let’s see if I can get it all done!

What do you think of the changes so far? I would love to know…

Welcome to the 2018 Craft Room Challenge! From January 3rd through January 31st, 14 crafty bloggers will be sorting, organizing, cleaning, and decorating their craft spaces. Each of us has a very different craft space to tackle, so chances are you will find one similar to yours. We’d love for you to join in on the fun challenge and clean right alongside us. Follow along and join in on social media by using #craftroomchallenge and #confessyourmess. You can also find us and the challenge via our social media accounts you’ll see listed on each of our sites. We’ll also have 15-minute mini daily challenges for you in case you have limited time to dedicate to the challenge. We hope you share your messy spaces and progress with us so we don’t feel alone this month!

Before you see the rest of the crafty spaces, please meet our lovely hosts:

Marie & Aleisha from The Inspiration Vault • Pam from P.S. I Love You Crafts

Yami from The Latina Next Door • Jolene from Create Pray Love

Habiba from Craftify My Love • Lyne from The Paper Addict

Megan from C’Mon Get Crafty • Erlene from My Pinterventures

Shirley from Intelligent Domestications • Valerie from Val Event Gal

Michelle from Our Crafty Mom • Rebecca from The Moments at Home

Stephanie from Crafty Ladybug Creations

Now, let’s take a look at their craft rooms and spaces!