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Cleaning the studio Part 1

My studio is in  super sad shape. I haven’t really cleaned/organized it since we moved last July. There are/were things in there that could find a home in another storage area. So, with some incredible help by my family as they were my arms and leg. I did some searching on Pinterest to come up with some good ideas of craft room storage.

Here are some of the great ideas that I found.

This photo is from Pulpsushi. You can find the whole blog post here. http://pulpsushi.typepad.com/index/2013/04/guest-post-craft-room-organization-made-easy.html She has tons of great ideas on how to organize you craft space.

This photo of the pegboard is from Apartment therapy.

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/wallmounted-craft-stations-100835  The pegboard looks planned not haphazard and the shelves for the cone thread are so necessary. we hung pegboard back in the Spring and it has been useful but I think it can be so much more!

http://debscountrycrafts.blogspot.com/2009/02/craft-room-inspiration.html This is just gorgeous. I like the lights under the shelves the jars of buttons and the magnet stripes under the shelves. It looks handy and easy to keep clean.

http://fancyfrugallife.com/old-headboard-to-craft-nook-my-new-craft-space/ This is from Fancy Frugal Life. I love the splash of color that she uses and the mix of patterns.

http://www.madiganmade.com/2011/08/my-colorful-ombre-basement-craft.html

Madigan did a great job transforming her basement into an easily cleaned, well organized, super pretty space. I love the labels on everything. I will need these so that the we can all find and return things to their proper places.

Here is how bad it was yesterday:

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It was out of control. This is an example of what happens when you have a craft area that four people use and no one knows where anything should get put away. I shared this room with some furniture items that are in long term storage; the kids rocking horse, the baby rocking chair, the girls tea table. We moved them to another storage area.

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That is a pretty bad photograph. I apologize for the bad photo but the kids were using my phone to take the pictures. Here is what it looks like after working on it all day yesterday.

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You can see the carpet and there is a clear walkway through to our bedroom.2013-08-04 19.49.21

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You can see that there is still a bunch to get done, hopefully it is going to only improve with more effort. IMG_0015There is the big comfy chair and ottoman. It works well in this room as I like to sit down and put my feet up when I hand sew. You can see the carpet and the fabric is now mostly contained. I am off to do more work today, hopefully the kids will continue to help as enthusiastically as they did yesterday.

Talk to you later,

Karen