How To Organize Your Craft Room | Hacks, Ideas, And Inspiration
The term “crafters” is almost always associated with the term “hoarders.” We can’t help it! We collect supplies and patterns for our favorite crafts for that time “in the future” when we can work on it.
Unfortunately that often leads to a cluttered mess where it can become difficult to find what you actually have. You could also be like me where you know where everything is but it just doesn’t look that nice in its current organization.
We are going to start first by showing you over 50 different Craft Rooms so that you can see what others are doing in their own homes.
Following that will be some ideas on how to get there. What storage products you can use, how you can repurpose things you already have at home, and how to maximize the space that you have.
Craft Room Inspiration
25 Craft Room Storage Ideas
Maybe you don’t even know how you want to store everything! Where to start? Check out this article that displays 25 different craft rooms of dedicated crafters across the internet.
19 Craft Rooms That Have It All Figured Out
This post literally pulls together 19 separate craft rooms that have beeen collected from across the internet. What’s great about this article is the pure diversity of the rooms.
The lesson here is to work with what you have to create the perfect space for YOU!
10 Creative Crafts Rooms And Home Offices
Even more craft room design and organization ideas can be found on this list! The bonus is some extra office organizational ideas as well. Many on this list are
Craft Storage Projects You Can Copy
The Best IKEA Craft Room Storage Ideas
Jennifer of Jennifermaker.com has compiled a great list of IKEA storage products that can help you organize your craft room. She has a great post on how she planned and executed her perfect craft room design. This is a great place to get started if you just don’t even know what you want to do.
IKEA is a common source of less expensive office storage products for many of the crafters in this post. The products are also usually light-weight and bright in color to match almost any crafting room design.
Craft Room Organizational Pegboard
One of the least expensive and most efficient ways to organize your crafts is by using a pegboard. We’ve seen these pegboards used for years in garages to organize and store tools, materials, and other equipment. Why can’t we use this same technique for our craft rooms?
This post contains a multitude of pictures showing the author’s own pegboard. Detailed close-up photos shows how she accomplished every aspect of the project.
DIY Framed Organizational Pegboard
Jennifer is back from Jennifermaker.com to show up step-by-step how to actually make a framed organizational pegboard. My favorite part of this post is her showing how you can have the fine folks at Home Depot actually cut the pegboard into the pieces that you actually need.
This is a great post and site for any crafter who wants to do it all on their own.
How To Turn A Closet Into A Craft Room
Let’s face it – crafters need their own space but sometimes it can be difficult to find that space in a crowded home. What about turning one of your closets into the craft room of your dreams?
We know not every closet is going to be big enough for this project, but if you have one that you can fit a desk into then that’s a good start! I love how the author shows her step-by-step makeover of her cluttered closet. This really looks like a crafter’s private haven in the end.
Final Word – Check My Pinterest Board For More Ideas
I have hundreds of posts on my Pinterest board about Craft Room Storage that you may want to peruse. There are so many examples of how others are organizing their crafting space on their own while spending little money to achieve huge results.
