Laurana’s Little Craft Room
Today we have a special treat. Laurana’s invited us into her 1.5 square meter (16 square foot) craft room. It used to be a closet; now it’s a completely drool-worthy space. Want to take a little tour with Laurana? Here’s what she has to say:
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I used to scrapbook at our dining table, which was usually so full of my crafts supplies that we had to eat in the living room… To improve the situation a little, we planned to assemble some new shelves for my supplies in our small walk-in closet.
But at some point I realized that hey, maybe it could be possible to fit in a little desk and transform the closet into a tiny craft room! My fiancé was a bit skeptical at first, but finally agreed to completely refurbish the closet with me. And I’m very happy with the outcome of our hard work. It turned out even better than I had expected!
Well it’s nothing like some stunning, spacious craft studios I’ve seen, but it’s cute and it’s mine and I love it :) I’m inspired by its vibrant colours, and it’s great to have all my scrapbooking supplies on display close to my desk.
Small work space is also very practical; it’s easy to keep things organized when everything’s on hand, and you just have to tidy up often because you don’t have enough room to work if there’s stuff laying around.
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Amazing, huh? Laurana makes me want to rethink the little corners of my own home and use lots of color. To catch more pictures of her space and her life, check out Laurana’s blog. Unfortunately for you and me, it’s not in English… but don’t worry. It’s still as totally drool-worthy as this redesigned small space.
What a wonderful use of space!
That is just great! It’s much better than my little desk in the pantry which stores all of my cake decorating supplies with the water heater, furnace, bread maker (and other small appliances) and food. Maybe some day I will get a small room or closet just for my crafting!
OH WOW! I think that is a totally AESOME job! It may be tiny, but beautiful and well organized.
I LOVE THE CAT!!!!!
Thank you so much for the tour! Have a good day!
WOW! That is amazing. The cat on the shelf cracked me up.
OMG!!! This hot pink on the walls and that Hello Kitty(???) looks so gorgeous! I love the organized space she created there:)Way to go girl!
Oh and i just saw the cat on the shelf MomInHighHeels was talking about.. I’m laughing my socks off:))))
I also love that there’s a space for the cat. I noticed that you keep the kitty’s litterbox right in the closet too — not only is there not enough space for clutter, but there’s not enough space to let the litterbox sit for more than a day. Small rooms + litterboxes = scooping more often.
Yes, it’s amazing! And I love the little cat on the shelf – so cute! It is practical *and* stunning. What an awesome room!
That was excellent and beautiful to boot!
wow ! that room is amazing ! i love it !!
amazing! and the cat is fabulous…
Wow! What an amazing transformation! Love it!
Isn’t that cat watching the progress of the whole thing just the cutest?
I’d like to thank everyone for your lovely comments. I’m glad you liked my tiny craft space (and my cat Peppi ;))!
HOW FLIPPING ADORABLE…and I love the hot pink!
This is fantastic! I’m eyeing off all the cupboards in my place now. Storage, who needs storage?
Wow! What an amazing use of space!
I’m so going to have to study this and take notes on her and your blogs. We’re moving to DC and the house I like is fairly small. I’m going to have to make good use of all the square footage we have. So I’m very interested in small space organization right now!
That really does make you rethink areas in your own home. Thanks for the idea.
Is that haruhi suzumia?
OMG I LOVE THAT SHOW!
ITS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE! haha.
Watch TORADORA! =]
I love your space. You are right, and I have to remember, that small spaces ARE practical. I have an entryway from the living room to back yard for my craftspace. It’s hard to keep organized. Thanks so much for the space space ideas. Love the little kitty.
Oh oh oh…I now desperately want to paint my walk in closet raspberry pink.
LOVE the Haruhi Figurine! LOL. great space and very well organized
I LOVE that little craft room. I want to turn my front closet, into a sewing room, so I am just looking for good ideas, and this is a great one! Thanks
Very cute, and loving the manga on the wall. I am seeing some Fruits Basket and Yotsuba&! it seems.
Quick question, if you turn your closet into a work area, where do you put your clothes?
Good question, Jordan. At least in Germany – homes don’t even have closets. It’s pretty common to purchase large pieces of furniture for clothing storage/hanging. Kinda strange, huh?
Katie
SOSOSOSO cute. I’m just a kid, but I make tons of crafts and sell them for quite a bit of money, but i don’t have a craft room, so my bedroom is my craft room!!! it’s totally covered in craft supplies and I want to do something like this!!! LUV IT!!! and katie hope u can find more fab craft rooms like this to post!!! :) :) :)
I am in the same situation we are moving out and my new craft areais going to be our dinning table, too bad we don’t have a walk in closet. Anywho it looks great esp like how you have stony area for your manga. I had to toss and give away a lot of collections for more space.
ok well my closet is very little, but is still a walk in closet, got any ideas for that?
Belle,
Our kitchen is 36 square feet. Since we don’t actually have closets in our apartment, I can tell you that for our kitchen, we took a lot of time thinking about what we most wanted. And more importantly, we thought about what we most NEEDED. We thought about how we would use the space. And slowly, ideas came together.
Hope that helps you.
Katie
Love the use of vertical space. Brave use of a bold color, but like most scrappers is not the draw of color one of the reasons we like to scrap. I just would not feel comfortable with my back to the door. Thats a me thing, still an awesone room!!
Love to see all these craft room ideas. I have just retired and now have a 10×12 room (with fold out couch in it) for my jewelry making. I love the empty picture frame idea — stylin’ yet a place I can put empty frames my husband uses for matting and framing.
Keep those great ideas coming. Anyone out there have jewelry making room ideas?
Love it!! It just works so great, the color the shelves. I hope my own little tiny room makeover goes just as smoothly!
http://theseasol.blogspot.com/2010/10/tiny-room-makeover-plan.html
I’m getting ready to organize my own craft room, and have been searching for inspiration! I featured your creative space on my blog! Thanks for inspiring! Here is the link:
http://oopsey-daisy.blogspot.com/2011/01/craft-room-inspiration.html
~Alison
This is GREAT! I’ve been designing my craft room and the bedroom I’m using isn’t very big. I never would have thought I could use the closet for another work space! I’m thinking it will be perfect for scrapbooking!!!! Such an awesome idea! Thanks for the inspiration! How long did it take? :-)
This is just what I was looking for to help me with my craft closet :) I have a small space and a lot of things I need to organize. This looks great! Although, I would love to see close ups on the organinzation you have hanging on the walls.