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Closet and craft. A brief context to set expectations.

Closet and craft: Quick notes

Looking for easy craft room organization ideas? Here’s how I organized my craft room and office using these amazing organizers.

I linked TONS of suggestions for craft organizing furniture at the end of the post. 🙂

You’ve seen this room before.

You know.

The one that doubles as my craft room and my office and my ZOOM meeting room and my book writing and my DIY project room.

That is a lot of hats for these little four walls.

And those four shutter doors right in the center of the picture?

There’s a closet behind them.

Want to see what’s behind door number one?

Here’s a hint.

It’s organized with all the files and all the craft supplies and all the photography equipment and all the books and all the magazines and all the piles of ribbon.

And when you open the doors?

The closet looks like this.

Wait.

Before I show you the organizing? I think we need to look back at where it all started.

Here’s the blank slate.

Ready to organize.

But first? There were a few challenges in the space.

This corner shoe rest had to come out.

I think once upon a time it opened?

But now? It was painted shut and in the way so we pried it out of the side of the closet.

Next, we took out the metal bar in the center of the closet.

I kept the shelf for storage, but removing the metal bar gave us more height to organize in the space.

And then?

It was time to organize

And now?

The closet looks like this.

Hee hee.

This is what we call a closet teaser picture.

Want to see more?

Oh, good.

Because now?

It looks like THIS.

// cubby bookcase // similar canvas bins //

The closet isn’t that big, so I wanted to make sure to use every bit of the space.

I knew I wanted to use cubbies so everything would have a place (all the craft supplies and the magazines and the extra random bits of stuff).

These cubby bookcases are all sold out, but I found a similar cubby piece that would work perfectly in a closet.

You can see it here.

You can see similar bins for the cubbies here.

Or these larger canvas bins would be perfect.

You can also see tons more craft room organizing furniture here.

// hutch topper //similar canvas bins //

I used two cubby bookcase (similar).

And a hutch top (similar, and you could add the pegboard) for one of the bases.

I’ve priced craft furniture before from other retailers and it was a little too expensive for me. I put together some other options that are affordable and VERY flexible depending on what you need for your craft (and in my case, office, too) supplies.

You can see what I found and more craft room organizing furniture here.

The key to organizing like this?

It’s the pull-out bins.

Don’t you think it would be a good idea to add a very small shelf at the very top of each cubby for scrapbook paper?

Just me—trying to use every inch of space. 🙂

The top of the hutch has the perfect little cabinet for my sewing supplies.

I have my sewing machine in the cabinet and sewing organizers on the other side for needles and thread and bobbins.

I also added fabric and sewing notions to several of the bins below.

The pegboard is perfect for scissors and tape and paint brushes.

I found a set of different hooks for the pegboard and I’m keeping those stored in one of the boxes below.

The other boxes hold extra office supplies.

And I added this vintage bike basket to the pegboard and filled it with post-it notes.

I use the post-it notes for my content calendar for the blog.

Each of the different colors is a different type of post I write on the blog (my wonderful friend Leslie from My 100-Year-old-Home gave me the idea).