My Craft Room

I'm hesitant to post about this because it's not quite done yet, but projects this large tend to be completed in stages, so there's no telling how long it will take. In fact, we were supposed to start last summer, so there ya go.

I finally converted our dining room into an official craft space back in Birmingham, but we had to take it down a couple months later to put our house on the market. Upon moving to Nashville, I decided to use our master closet as my craft room. Now, don't start feeling sorry for me that my husband has an entire bedroom for his office and I only get a closet. This closet is huge! I'm not really a fashionista, so I couldn't imagine filling this entire thing. It lends plenty of space for an office and what really sealed the deal is there's a window, so it's much more room-like. I have all sorts of plans, but for now I'm writing about the desk because that's the first and most important detail to get this room ready for crafting.

Last year I decided this Ana White corner desk would be perfect for me! I also really want this craft table, but there's just not the room in here. Maybe one day when a kid moves out. :) Anyway, it didn't happen last year so when my birthday rolled around again, it's the only thing I told hubs I wanted. I saved up Christmas and birthday money to buy the supplies and his gift was the actual labor of building the desk.

The first three pieces cut! This was the bulk of the cutting 

and with it the desk is already taking shape!

 Hubs workin' hard...at least this was an excuse to use power tools, right? :)

 Will helping. He fell in love with the measuring tape and went around

measuring everything he could find, it was cute

 structural supports being added

 both boys came out to help :)

 Once the building was complete, I got to work painting, here it is

with the first coat after wood conditioner!

I found a couple filing cabinets at Goodwill for $7 to use as the base instead of building our own, or building cabinets underneath from the original plans. With the desk well underway, I got to work spray painting the filing cabinets in between painting the desk.

 Then came the big day when we moved the desk upstairs! Before 

all this, I went through and did some major de-cluttering of the space

 All put together! And with a cute little accessory to boot :)

Since the highly coveted craft table could not be used in this space, I decided to use my old computer desk as my sewing table. It doesn't offer the room to have a cutting/crafting area and a sewing area like the craft table would, but it's rare I'm cutting and sewing at the same time. Or doing either of those while I'm crafting either, so I'll just have to rotate out.

 Before & After. I debated awhile on what colors to do everything. Initially, I wanted both the desk and sewing table to be white since all my craft storage is. Then I had a brief moment where I considered doing the desk two tone- white table top, filing cabinets black or aqua. In the end, I decided to keep the desk one color to match my storage and give the sewing table a little pop by painting it aqua. I really like how it turned out!! Stay tuned for more pics as I continue to make progress in my "little" craft room! :)