✥ Reader Feature: Craft Room Reveal ✥

I am having a fabulous week with my grandmother. She's here visiting with me from Cali. This has meant a week off from blogging- well, for the most part. I did find the time to share this awesome craft room from Anna @ Directions Not Included with you guys!  

 You've all heard about my spare bedroom that multi-tasks as a place for guests to stay, an office for the Hubs and myself AND a dumping ground for projects past and present!! 

So obviously I am super duper jealous of your guys' craft rooms and this one from Anna is like a little crafty dream come true!

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Hi there! I'm Anna from Directions Not Included. I'm so excited that Becca asked me to share my craft room/office with all of you. This room has been my special haven as we tackle a full house renovation by ourselves. It is actually the first room in the house you can consider finished. I have my priorities straight!

I share the space with the hubby so we have two desks. The one on the right is his computer desk and the one on the left is my main crafting area. Both desk tops are made from hollow doors we stained and sealed. The bases are IKEA drawer systems for me and some repurposed file cabinets that I painted for him. 

The room is a decent size but the key to an organized craft room is using all your space wisely. Little nooks make a great place for my calendar and keeping everything contained helps create order when I'm making a mess crafting away. 

This cubby system from IKEA was an inexpensive investment that helps me contain a bunch of odds and ends within reach of my work area. 

Shelves on the left of my desk help organize and display some of the more colorful pieces of my supply stash. Who doesn't like looking at ribbon and thread on display. Same goes for glitter organized on some cheap picture ledges. 

Opening up the closet by removing the door and adding a simple DIY curtain helps maximize the storage for all the stuff I don't want hanging around outside. 

This is the hubby's area where he runs the business part of his ceramics studio. I'll admit I cleaned up his desk for these photos. He's the messy one with piles of papers. Since he helped me get this room finished, I can let the messiness slide most days ;)

Seeing as this room looked like this at the beginning of 2011 when we bought this house and when renovations started, I think we've made some good progress.

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After:

Becca, thanks again for letting me share my room. I hope you all enjoyed and please stop by Directions Not Included to see what else we are up to in our crafty and DIY adventures. Hope to see you around!

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I love the color scheme Anna chose and how white and crisp all the is furniture. It makes me want to learn how to sew just looking at it- OK, well maybe not that! But it does make we want to plow through my huge pile of half done projects!!
 I love the creative use of a hollow core door for the desk top- I think it looks like a million bucks! Anna creatively extended the length of the door since one was not long enough to cover the desk and extend to the wall. Check out her tutorial if you're thinking about doing the same type of project.
She also has a ton of craft tutorials you should check out when you have a minute.

✥ My Style Defined ✥

In case you missed this post I did for Jennifer at a Place 2 Call Home- here it is. She invited me to talk about my design style, so pull up the computer, get cozy!

 Here's a pic of our home- ok, let me be more clear, it's the dining room part of the living/dining room/kitchen which I call "livitchen". For the past three years, the condo life has been, livitchen.

This pic is perfect for showing my love for both styles! I love the vintage globes and suitcases above a brand new Ikea mirror and very modern moose head! 

Truly, my style falls into four categories: "NEW-NEW", "OLD-NEW," "NEW-OLD," and "OLD-OLD."

The New-New- Our sectional is what you would call "new-new". It's a custom made sectional from Basset Furniture and I designed it to have clean lines and a modern feel. Pretty much all the pillow cases on the couch are also "new-new." Surprisingly, "new-new" is kinda fun to say!

The New-Old- This is when you buy something with the intent to change it into something that looks "aged". Take a look at the curtain panels behind my couch. They are new Ikea curtain panels that I stenciled with a damask stencil. I wanted to create an aged looking fabric to balance the newness of the couch.

The Old-New-These are the things we already have that get a makeover to resurrect an old item and make it into a new one. The lamp on my front table in the livitchin was a brass monster, but had these gorgeous lines. I used a 20 cent clearance can of spray paint to makeover the lamp and also the mantel clock beside my couch. It was this ugly old thing the hubs received as a gift ages ago. I gave both a fancy little face lift and transformed the look. 

The Old-Old- We should all be familiar with this category. These are all our vintage finds- the stuff we scour thrift stores and maybe even Ebay for.  I have several vintage finds scattered around the home. I heart the old blue mason jars and their zinc lids and old fans like this turquoise beaut on the table.
My apiary sign on my gallery wall is old-old- but it was a makeover too. It was an old wood sign that looked a mess and I painted it to look like a different old wood sign. My husband says it's the wild west in me... even though I'm from the east coast.

Thanks for touring my crib!

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