sewing | Hicks House

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?

One of my favorite things about this house is that I finally have a place to do my crafts. As the owner and designer of Dani Designs, having my headquarters on the dining room table of our old condo left much to be desired. All my fabrics and accessories were upstairs, sewing machine downstairs so doing a project required lots of stair climbing. A bit of a workout however not the most productive use of time. Having to constantly pack up and put away my sewing machine also didn’t bolster my creative spirit.

So with a designated Dani Designs Headquarters in the third bedroom, the creative wheels start spinning on just how to decorate such a space. Much time was spent on Pinterest and Houzz looking at endless inspiration photos, then much more time spent looking for things that you didn’t need to be a millionaire to afford.

This is the original room I saw on Houzz that had me swooning:

Traditional Home Office by Mckinney Interior Designers & Decorators JDS DESIGNS

Isn’t it dreamy? Everything about this room is so welcoming and makes me want to create things here. However it doesn’t really meet my needs as this is more of a home office than a sewing room, plus it looks oober expensive. So this is the mood board I came up with for the room that is more practical while retaining the color scheme of the inspiration room:

craft room mood board

I think I’m going to keep the pale blue and white color scheme, I just like the feel of it. Hopefully I’ll eventually get a glamorous chandelier as well.

So far the tables have been purchased by way of a massive Joann sale. (They were specifically chosen due to the sale price – table aesthetics came second to super cheap)

They came in boxes like this…

Which looks like a whole lot of Ikea-eque building. But you get what you pay for I guess, I’ll have to draw your eye to the beautiful curtains I am going to attempt to make. In all of my sewing this is a task I have not yet tackle. I’m a little intimidated but I think the end result will be worth it.