craft room | Hicks House

I was asked by WeWork, to write about what I love about my work space. The request seemed to come at the perfect time as the craft room has been pretty neglected lately. Not only have I not written about the space in over a year (gasp!) I haven’t done anything to further customize the space in just as long.

Although the room is still far from done, the request from WeWork to see pictures, sparked some momentum towards organizing the space.

The original organizational idea centered around cube storage systems we had set up between the two windows. In theory this was great, it offered the choice between open shelving or pull out baskets… in practice not so much. The cubes were an odd size, in order to utilize them for fabric, it needed to be folded JUST right, and the pull out cubes required the fabric to be placed standing up, which would only work with the perfect folding job. Keeping everything so perfectly folded made me scared to use any fabric, and thus the cubes remained predominately empty for over a year.

They were also set up in between the two windows which seemed to close the room in and would infringe on my future plan to make and display some beautiful curtains. Once I finally accepted that they were not going to work, Ken helped me map out and execute a new organizational plan.

The small cube that housed the TV was turned on its side and one of the two massive cubes was moved next to it to display the TV, creating a 3 cube high, 5 cube wide storage area that now works well for yarn storage.

The second 3×3 cube was donated to a friend for their little girls playroom and replaced with two IKEA dressers. They offer the ability to keep my fabric organized in drawers and out of site, should they not be immaculately folded.

What I love most about this room is that it is a sanctuary for all my crafts and projects that is now set up to best utilize the space. The sewing desk is right next to the fabric dressers which is next to the fabric cutting table. This area looks across the room towards the TV so I can watch HGTV while I’m working away (a must have feature). The windows are now free to accept my upcoming custom curtains and the whole room feels light and bright.

To recap past posts and this one my favorite things about the room are:

The beautiful patterned chairs
The new amazing organization of the space
Having my own personal craft and project space where I can close the door off from the rest of the house

Still to be done, need to be updated:

Paint the room
Make and hang custom curtains (more grommets anyone?)
New fabulous uber-girly light fixuture

So what do you think? What do you love most about your work space? Check out some of WeWork’s other locations here.

Back in July I posted my mood board for the craft room inspiration. I am one step closer to a beautiful room and well within the functional room.

sewing table

The room features separate areas for sewing, ironing, cutting, storage as well as housing the computer for the house. Ignore the box in the corner, that hasn’t been unpacked yet.

In the left side of the picture you can see a cube storage system which will eventually house all of my fabrics so that they are all easy to see and quickly grab what I’m looking for. I’m still trying to figure out the best method for how to lay that out.

In the back in the sewing table, complete with awesome patterned chair – which will compliment the curtains I have yet to sew and the walls I have yet to paint… That’s Stage 2 and Stage 3.

To the back right is the ironing board and to the right is the massive cutting table complete with table sized cutting mat. It’s all set up so you grab your fabric – cross the room – cut the fabric – iron it – then sew.

cutting table

Here is a closer up photo of the awesomeness that is the cutting table and the chair. Having the computer in the room, is ok simply for the fact at how happy these chairs make me. Seriously how can you not be happy looking at this chair? It’s slightly different than the one in my original mood board, but it was on super sale and I think I actually like it better.

It’s a step in the right direction! I can’t wait to get the curtains sewed and hung, walls painted and a super girly sparkly chandelier of some sort to top it off.

What do you think?