My husband and I ended up with a house too big for us after both our boys left.
As we live in Stellenbosch (a university town) and flat rentals are a very good source of extra income, we converted 2 “unused” rooms into a self-contained flat.
Perfect, BUT…I ended up losing 2 BIG cupboards that had been invaded by my fabric stash over the years.
My Craft Closet is filled to the brim, so I had to think out of the box (No, out of the CLOSET!).
After I did the Locker Love post, I came up with the brilliant idea of adding a row of lockers to an unused space between our garages and the house.
I would have loved to use some recycled lockers, but as I wanted a rather uniform look, I opted to buy new ones.
To my fellow South Africans, I found these lockers at Just Steele, bought them online and four weeks later they were delivered to my door!!!
I chose this one:
Craft Storage: Contributor Solution – My Locker Love – Just Steele 12-Compartment Locker
This one is “slimmer” than the rest of the range and I wanted LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of cubbies.
I chose the two-tone cream and beige color as I thought the grey would look too industrial.
In hindsight, I should have chosen the grey.
My taste is rather industrial.
BUT, in the long run, I plan to have them spray painted fire engine red or with a black chalkboard finish.
In the meantime, I’ve transferred my fabric stash from our extra bathroom to the cubbies.
Here is a “before” pic.
Who can spot the bath???
Craft Storage” Contributor Solution – My Locker Love – My Fabric Stash: Before
I sorted the fabric in groups of dress fabric for summer, plain and printed; dress fabric for winter, plain and printed; curtain; upholstery; sheeting; and, haberdashery.
Want a peek inside?
Craft Storage: Contributor Solution – My Locker Love Fabric in Locker Cubbies
I’m still working on a system of labeling the cubbies and making it SUPER easy to find something at a click of a button / turn of a page, so you’ll have to come back next month to see what I’ve done.
In the meantime, if you have any ideas,
please leave me a comment or share a link.
I would love to see as many ideas as possible
before I make up my mind.
I’m off to get the truck load of patterns sorted that arrived from my mother (and grandmother before her), but that’s a story for another day.
Thanks for looking at My Locker Love.
I’ll be back next week with GREAT ideas for traveling with crafts to keep your little ones busy.
Please check back and all will be revealed.
And when you have a moment, please swing by my blog – PlayAsUGo – and say hello! Hazel
Craft Storage IdeasContributor: Hazel Hamman
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Craft Storage: American Crafts DT Room Tour – Giveaway Winner! We’re sharing the creative spaces from some of your favorite crafters, American Crafts’ design team members!
Hello, fellow storage enthusiasts!
How many of you caught a glimpse of the rooms of the American Crafts design team members?
Inspiring, right?!
If you missed the peeks, check ’em out below.
And if you stopped by ’cause you can’t wait to see if YOU won the $25 IKEA gift card we were giving away, well, wait no more!
Scroll down past the craft room shares below
to see if YOUR name was drawn!
Up first, Gina Lideros and her description of her happy place:
Craft Storage: Craft Room Tour – American Crafts Design Team Member – Gina Lideros
Nicole uses her family’s bonus / play room to scrap.
Her Expedit bookcase is used as a room divider,which gives a little separation between her stuff and the kids’ area while still allowing her to be part of the action.
Craft Storage: Craft Room Tour – American Crafts Design Team Member – Nicole Samuel’s Expedit Bookcase
Hazel shares an office with her husband and she had this to say: “Mine isn’t nearly as neat as hers, nor does it have the beautiful, light, airy and creative feel that I see in her pictures.“
Not everyone is fortunate to have a separate scrap space and it’s great to see people who don’t have a dedicated space make this situation work for them.
Ashley used what she had on hand and we love how she incorporated her stash in her everyday living space. Well done Ashley!
If you previously hopped along to check out all of the American Crafts design team member’s craft rooms | crafting spaces,
and you guessed at which “tool” each and every one of them uses, and left us a comment about what you most like from these spaces,
you just might be the lucky winner of the $25 IKEA gift card!!!
And the lucky winner is…
justasiam!
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Thanks to everyone for joining us for this craft room hop, and especially to those who took the time to wager a guess on the tool these designers love, and to share their thoughts about these craft rooms, both here and on the American Crafts blog.
Craft Storage: Contributor Storage Solutions – Fabric Storage Craft storage ideas for quilting and sewing rooms!
Hello,
It’s Amanda again!
I’m here to share with you a quick solution that I use in my craft room to get those precarious piles of fabric out of the closet and out in the open where my collection can inspire my creativity.
Of course you could use cereal box cardboard, or regular cardboard, if you’re patient enough to save up enough pieces for your stash.
I’m not that patient.
Then, just fold your fabric into a width that is slightly smaller than the height of your cardboard, and begin wrapping the fabric around the cardboard.
Craft Storage: Contributor Storage Solutions – Fabric Storage, Wrapping the Fabric Around the Backer Boards
To secure the end of the fabric to the mini bolt, use a sewing pin, or a clothes pin if you’re worried about poking fingers later.
Craft Storage: Contributor Storage Solutions – Fabric Storage, Securing the Fabric to Itself Using a Pin
For storage, simply line up your mini bolts of fabric on a shelf or bookcase.
Super simple!
It looks like you have a mini craft store right in your craft room and the fabric is out where you can see it.
Just seeing all the pretty patterns together makes my fingers itch to turn it into a beautiful quilt or to sew up a cute stuffed animal!
Craft Storage: Contributor Storage Solutions – Fabric Storage, On A Shelf
(This is Steph: I don’t even sew and I’d love to have this kind of inspiration in my craft room! Great idea, Amanda!)
It’s been fun – thanks for joining us today!
And when you get a chance, please stop by my blog, Krafting Kreations, and say hello! Amanda
Sometimes you can make the most amazing storage from things that you have lying around, things that you might even need to get rid of.
Dinah of DIYInsired.com took the spring from her daughter’s crib and combined it with some baskets, pails and mason jars to make this fun and interesting storage item!
Craft Storage as Unique as You Are! Re-Purposed Baby Crib Spring via DIY Inspired
Well maybe you can take a cue from Johnnie of Saved By Love Creations and put it together, paint it up, and add rods and clips, and it can store all sorts of fun things.
I can especially see this as a display area for kid’s artwork, scrapbook pages or your handcrafted masterpieces!
Steph’s thinking this would also make a great storage solution for your papercrafting embellishments, or even crafting tools!
Craft Storage as Unique as You Are! Re-Purposing Scrap Wood via Saved By Love Creations
These ideas are a reminder that your creativity doesn’t have to stop with the projects that you create in your craftroom.
Harness your creativity to create storage and organization options that are perfectly suited to your needs.
What do you think?
Are any of these ideas well suited to your craft storage needs?
Please share your thoughts about these options,
and share your own unique storage ideas,
in the comments – we can’t wait to see what everyone’s using, and creating, for craftroom storage!
It’s been fun – thanks for joining us today!
And when you get a chance, please stop by my blog, Krafting Kreations, and say hello! Amanda
Craft Storage IdeasContributor: Amanda Corbet
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Hi everyone, it’s Kim from Stamping Imperfection to share some fun ways to upcycle metal storage containers to use as craft storage.
I love giving new life to old items destined for the trash and I’ve noticed that this is a trait of all truly serious crafters!
We have a tendency to buy new crafting supplies and then figure out a craft storage solution for them before we even craft with them!
Why is it so satisfying to be able to take something from a thrift store or a garage sale and completely revamp it into something that not only has a useful purpose, but looks great?
Honestly, that is a crafting/DIY project unto itself!
Metal items can be a great addition to your craft room storage solutions.
You find them available everywhere and there are so many ways to change them up for just a few dollars.
They generally don’t require a ton of sanding and prep like a wooden item might.
Check out some of the clever ideas that I found to share with you for your craft storage…
Here is a tool box idea created by Virginia Fynes of fynesdesigns.com.
Tool boxes are great craft storage solutions.
You’ll see these at garage sales and thrift stores all the time and they are fantastic portable storage solutions that are sturdy!
Whether you choose to leave the metal storage items as they are or you choose to use your craft skills to transform them into something new and fabulous, don’t pass these items by at garage sales, thrift stores and clearance bins.
They have unlimited possibilities!
Please leave a comment – let us know what great metal finds
you’ve transformed into useful craft storage!
Thanks for stopping by today and please stop by my Stamping Imperfection blogand say hello and check out my latest stamping projects!
Craft Storage IdeasContributor: Kim Skinner
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Craft Storage: Craft Room Tour – American Crafts Design Team Members Check out the creative spaces from some of your favorite crafters, American Crafts’ design team members!
Hello, fellow storage enthusiasts!
It’s Hazel here to share a few posts over at the American Crafts blog that took my fancy.
They had a Scrap Space week!
Each of their design team members had a chance to share their happy craft spaces.
I was so excited, I got up a bit earlier on the days that I had appointments to read all about it before I had to be on my way.
Let’s start with Gina Lideros and her description of her happy place:
Craft Storage: Craft Room Tour – American Crafts Design Team Member – Gina Lideros
Nicole uses her family’s bonus / play room to scrap.
Her Expedit bookcase is used as a room divider,which gives a little separation between her stuff and the kids’ area while still allowing her to be part of the action.
Craft Storage: Craft Room Tour – American Crafts Design Team Member – Nicole Samuel’s Expedit Bookcase
I share an office with my husband and I can tell you this, mine isn’t nearly as neat as hers, nor does it have the beautiful, light, airy and creative feel that I see in her pictures.
If you’ve hopped along to all the American Crafts design team member’s scrap spaces,
let’s see if you can tell us what “tool” each and every one of them uses.
Let us know what you like about these craft spaces,
and tell us what tool each AC designer uses,
and we’ll enter you in a drawing
for a $25 gift card…
from IKEA!
Entry Deadline: Midnight (central, GMT-5), Sunday, August 23, 2015
That’s it!!
I loved visiting not one, but a whole design team’s scrap spaces in one go.
Make sure you leave comments on their posts over at the American Crafts blog as well as on their individual blogs.
Being on a design team is LOTS of work and sharing their intimate spaces with us is awesome.
Thank you for visiting Craft Storage Ideas today.
Have a GREAT day and please come back to see what my fellow contributors and I have to share right here.
And when you get a chance, stop by my blog, Play As U Go, and say hello, Hazel
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Craft Storage Ideas: Craft Room Tour – Tried & True Teeny Tiny Craft Room Craft room storage doesn’t have to be huge to be great!
Hello to my fellow craft storage enthusiasts!
It’s Hazel, all the way from currently not-so-sunny South Africa, and today I’m inviting you to join me on a tour of Vanessa Brady’s Teeny Tiny Craft Room.
As my Craft Closet is very small, I tend to look in awe at crafters having even less space and making more with it.
That canned fruit wouldn’t have lasted in my Craft Closet!
According to Vanessa, she lives in a sweet little house built in 1936 and, while that makes for great character, it doesn’t necessary mean a lot of space to work with.
Just look at this slatted wood panel gifted from her sister.
Supplies are added with hardware clips, the baskets for markers and pens are from Target‘s dollar section, and the baker’s twine is in an office in/out basket with some dowels strung across the openings.
The washi tape is in a thrifted hanging wood basket – it fits absolutely perfectly!
Everything is within easy reach and, as Vanessa says, what she lacks in space, she definitely makes up for in GREAT storage systems.
Craft Storage Ideas: Craft Room Tour – Tried & True Teeny Tiny Craft Room, Everything Accessible from the Desk
Craft Storage: Recycle, Re-purpose & Re-use – Garage Sale Finds Check out three garage sale finds that are ideal for storing crafting supplies!
Hi!
It’s Amanda here!
I’m back to share with you some great storage ideas for your crafty space!
It’s summer and every weekend you see garage sale signs all over the place.
The saying goes that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure.
Well, there are hidden gems that you can frequently find at garage sales and I have three ideas
I’d like to share with you today.
Craft Storage: Recycle, Re-Purpose & Re-Use: 3 Garage Sale Finds to Use for Crafting Storage
This wooden toolbox is great for keeping brushes, paint and paint misters handy,
right on your work table.
And, if you need the space, it’s easy to move to another location – just grab
the big handle on top.
Craft Storage: Recycle, Re-Purpose & Re-Use: 3 Garage Sale Finds to Use for Crafting Storage – Tool Box Paint Storage
This would also work great to hold jars of your most frequently used tools like scissors,
pencils, a ruler, glue and more!
Craft Storage: Recycle, Re-Purpose & Re-Use: 3 Garage Sale Finds to Use for Crafting Storage – Tool Box Tools Storage
Next up is a vintage metal tool box.
This is the kind of toolbox that you would expect to see in a home or a garage.
I just love the vintage look!
Craft Storage: Recycle, Re-Purpose & Re-Use: 3 Garage Sale Finds to Use for Crafting Storage – Tool Box Jewelry Tools Storage
This keeps my jewelry-making tools corralled and in a handy spot right next to my beads.
If I want to work somewhere else in the house, it’s easy to close the lid and transport my tools wherever I need to go.
Craft Storage: Recycle, Re-Purpose & Re-Use: 3 Garage Sale Finds to Use for Crafting Storage – Tool Box Jewelry Tools Storage
Now, if you’re looking for a great way to display some of your crafty goodness, look no further than a wooden DVD storage cabinet!
Craft Storage: Recycle, Re-Purpose & Re-Use: 3 Garage Sale Finds to Use for Crafting Storage – DVD Cabinet for Craft Project Display
This cabinet was originally designed to hang vertically, but I added some little angle brackets from the hardware store, along with some screws and anchors, and I have a shelf that fits perfectly above my book case and allows me to display some of my carefully crafted projects.
You could, of course, use this method to store just about anything on a shelf, all from something you can pick up at a garage sale for a few bucks.
Craft Storage: Recycle, Re-Purpose & Re-Use: 3 Garage Sale Finds to Use for Crafting Storage – DVD Cabinet for Craft Project Display
So, when you’re out prowling around garage sales (and flea markets, yard sales and vintage fairs) keep an eye out for things that can be used as crafting supplies, tools and projects storage.
Shiny and new is nice, but when you’re on a budget, it’s nice to find storage solutions with character that work for your space.
I hope I’ve inspired you to think outside the box and re-purpose something that works great for you!
Thanks for stopping by and please come visit me at Krafting Kreations, Amanda
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