I am so excited to be participating in the spring one room challenge! Our craft room/office has been on my list for a long time. I’ve been rather intimidated by making my own cabinetry but now that I have the tools and have watched a thousand videos I know I can do it.
Here’s some before pictures and the plans:
I’ve drawn out this plan a bunch of times in different layouts but this is my best one yet. There will be one central desk with lots of drawer storage for all my crafting supplies. The cupboard will hold our printer on a slide out, as well as my sewing machine and cricut. I will have to alter the shelves so they wont be 4 feet wide and they’ll instead be 2 feet wide so I won’t have sagging with the wood but having it drawn out gives me a feel for how the space will be used.
Now if you’ve seen my designs you can see I am a huge fan of blue and moody. I want this to feel like a room in Hogwarts without it being overly obvious. I want to feel cozy in the dark colors and feel inspired to create.
Here’s the design.
The entire wall minus a 3 foot section in the middle will be all cabinetry. In the middle where the desk is, I will be using peel and stick faux brick panels from Ninth & Vine. I think I’m most excited about the drawer pulls. These were supposed to be our pulls for our kitchen when we remodeled 2 years ago but they were back ordered so I wasn’t able to use them, until now! It’s the little things. I absolutely love this table from Pottery Barn but I’m willing to spend $900 so, I’ll either build one or thrift one, whichever comes first or easiest. And what room would be complete without a rug. I’m not sure the exact rug i’ll use but I’m hoping to find a beautiful washable rug that has a vintage look to it.
To start the project I’ve patched the ceiling where we had a water leak, patched some holes in the wall, demoed the chair rail where the built-ins will be, removed the baseboards and painted the entire room.
Week 2 I am planning to start building the boxes for cabinetry and I’ll show you how easy they are to make.
In the meantime, check out all the amazing participants in the One Room Challenge here.
