Craft Studio Design in the Real World

WARNING: The following article does not contain any craft studio design photos fit for "Studios" magazine or the type of upscale interior craft studio design you see where Martha Stewart or Lia Griffith craft. Few of us are in that league; but we all love to drool, don't we?

Improving Craft Studio Design under Money and Time Constraints is Possible

What I'm sharing is a real working craft studio design in process. My studio is jam-packed with supplies, equipment and projects-in-process. Sound familiar? Thus far, I've organized work stations for each craft type and its related supplies. That has improved my work flow, whittled down my accumulated piles of projects-in-process and made my muse quite happy.

Now I can see the forest for the trees. I can see how the overall appearance of the room can also be improved very inexpensively by improving the craft studio design.

On my list so far are:

1. Repurpose or donate my inspiration board easel - the idea just didn't work for me and the easel takes up a lot of space (though it does hide a multitude of "sins");
2. Set up a scrapbook kit area - using ideas I learned in Stacy Julian's Finish Line Scrapbooking class.
3. Declutter the wall space - I'm not sure how, but for starters I'll get rid of the small cork bulletin board. It's so far away from my desk now that it's useless.

This is what's hidden behind the easel now: various scrapbooks in process and related ephemera and the stacked file organizer which holds scrap paper, old books and book pages, brown paper bags, etc. This will be cleared up more as I use what I learned in "Finish Line Scrapbooking".


This is how my scrapbook supply area looked before. The mess was right out in full view and there was more of it!


Now the same open area holds my nicely organized beading supplies. Organizing them was my first clean-up project of the year.


Making progress feels good, doesn't it?