2 Craft Room Designs or turning a Guest Room into a Creative Space!

When you redecorate a room you reach pivotal moments.  Four of the five voices in your head say this could be a bad idea. My craft room design is at its pivotal moment.

Post Update: I’ve included my craft room design for my studio in our new home.

Eek!

I’m s~l~o~w~l~y redecorating a guest room and turning it into a home office and craft room…while keeping it as a guest room.

Because we get a guest lately about once every two years!

I think we need a smaller home. (Please note what I just typed) Since writing this article, we moved into a home over twice as large!!

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Craft Room Design – in our cabin style home

Guest Room for Guests

Above is the daybed we ordered from Amazon. It’s perfect for a single guest or couple if one doesn’t mind sleeping close to the floor.

Although, Otis found out he can see outside from the daybed.

Above is the doorway to the area between our guest rooms.  The other room will remain a true guest room.

Notice the revolving bookcase filled with craft supplies.  Oh, and the woven duct tape stool!  I’ve never repainted the stool, but it finally needs paint.   I realized the post for the stool published EXACTLY 4 years today!

I had plans to build a frame around the TV with storage for small craft supplies. But…

instead, I did this! I covered most of the wall with old boards, plus an old headboard. It’s a great place to take photos of craft projects.

Above is the area set up for filming craft shows. I love doing quick videos on Pinterest.

Above are the two window areas.  The top is a “window” seat.  Although the window is too high to look out!  My plan is to cover the 4-inch memory foam mattress with a drop cloth.  One with those large roll edges.

The daybed will sit under the other window.  Right now there are two twin headboards with spindles waiting to become another DIY project. 😉

In the corner, I squeezed in a drop leaf table.  My blogging desk with my computer is mainly downstairs.  But I can work there when I need quiet.  Plus the table opens large for crafting and painting.  I added furniture sliders under the table legs.

Over the years of blogging, I called this guest room the room where “DIY projects go to die.”  Some projects I donate to our Humane Society thrift store.

Please let me know your thoughts.  Be brutally honest. Why? The best ideas come from brutal honesty.

Craft Room Design in our European Farmouse

Now in our current home, we have six bedrooms. The two smallest bedrooms are my craft studio and home office. I know, I got lucky! 

Craft Studio at Poncton Abbey 

This is a photo collection of my craft studio in our new home. Make sure to pin it to remember where you found great ideas to use in your craft studio of any size.

Storage This is my top tip!

Half of my craft supplies are stored in theses cabinets. I need to repaint the outside. The inside contains storage containers, and a few storage drawers. If I had the chance to buy new cabinets, I would pick this one from Amazon! I love the extra storage areas in the doors.

Bedroom closets are perfect places to keep rolling craft carts. This closet hold two carts. This one is my favorite and most used cart. It comes in some great colors. Mine is black.

This is my smaller cart. I keep extra basic supplies and tools in it to roll to my office or the studio landing area.

This bedroom has a sitting area, great place for journaling and reading. Plus, there’s more drawers behind doors on both sides of the window seat.

Having a craft room near a bathroom makes cleaning paintbrushes easier. 

The scrap wood mantelpiece makes a great backdrop for Pinterest pictures. 

For videos, I’m using the same drafting table shown above. By the way, it looks like the drafting table Mike Brady used at home in the Brady Bunch! We found it at a yard sale for $20. It had a green plastic covering over the top, which I scraped off to reveal the wood. 

The light holds my phone for videos overhead. Perfect for small craft ideas, mindful painting, and paper crafts. 

Please leave a comment about your craft area. I enjoy learning about creative spaces in our homes.