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Craft Room: Ideas For The Ultimate Wrapping Station

‘Tis the season for gift giving! Crafters and wrappers alike know that to keep the creative juices flowing, you need an organized and functional workspace! We’re taking a page from our craft room playbook to show you ways to create the ultimate wrapping station! Whether it’s a small corner in your home or an entire room, your endless search for scissors and tape can come to a blissful end. Let’s keep the organization boom of 2020 going and transform your space into the gift that keeps on giving!

CLOSET

If space is at a premium, an extra closet is a great place for a wrapping station. The key is to maximize vertical space. Display and store wrapping paper and ribbons with tension rods and add a slide-out or drop-down counter for wrapping. Behind every door is a wealth of storage potential! Add wire racks to hold paper, pegboard to hang scissors, and curtain rods to keep your ribbons from getting tangled.

WRAPPING ROOM

Don’t let that spare bedroom go unused any longer. Turn it into a space any crafter would love! With an entire room, the possibilities are endless. A craft room/wrapping station doesn’t have to be “crafty.”. It can be designed to match your existing décor while also being functional. For the perfect wrapping room storage, consider both open shelving and cabinetry with multiple size drawers that are extra deep. To create a generous amount of workspace, find an oversized table or include an island in your custom design like the one we created below for a client’s craft room. Learn the story behind this project here >>> A Crafter’s Paradise

COZY NOOK

Fortunately, you don’t need to have an entire room to create a wrapping station. You can find a cozy crafting corner in almost any part of your house, even a hallway! Find a space that allows you to have a shelf and desk, or even an old dresser will do! To create an organized, small area that makes a big impact, add pegboard for hanging paper and ribbon and bins for your tape, scissors, and name tags.

LAUNDRY ROOM

A laundry room usually has the two essential requirements for a craft/wrapping station: cabinets and a counter. It’s the ultimate room for double duty! Your folding counter doubles as a wrapping station, your cabinets offer tons of storage for all of your wrapping supplies, and a sink is perfect for your craft projects!

BASEMENT

If taking over or repurposing another room isn’t an option, consider part of a room that you can add some deep shelving or cabinets, like your basement. Find a counter space that can double as a workspace and add a crafting chair! Creatively placed bins and shelving can keep your supplies organized and hidden away.

YOUR CRAFT ROOM & HOME ORGANIZATION EXPERT IN EDINA, MN & BEYOND

Let us help you kick off your holidays with a customized craft room or gift wrapping space design that will help keep you organized and focused! Contact Closets For Life today to schedule a free in-home consultation. Our company specializes in organization solutions for all areas of the home, including craft room storage, closets, garages, kitchens, home offices, laundry rooms, pantries, and more. We’ll come to your home (or meet virtually!) to measure your space and discuss your needs and wants. Give us a call or click the button below to schedule your free consultation!

A Crafter’s Paradise: The Tale of a Custom Craft Room & Storage Project

Any crafters out there? Pull up a chair because you are going to love hearing about this project!

We recently completed a beautiful craft room for a client in Rosemount, MN. We designed the project, part of a newly built home, to match the cabinetry found elsewhere in the home, choosing Northern Contour Shaker-style cabinetry, oil rubbed bronze hardware, and top-trim extending to the ceiling to complete a built-in look. A beautiful, large island topped with Artisan Steel Gray granite anchors the room, providing a large work surface, ample drawer storage on one side including a built-in space to hold a recycling container, and an opening on the other side to fit a chair. Along one wall, a window bench with drawers seamlessly incorporates a grill built into the toe kick to allow heat/air flow and a beautiful Blackened Ligno laminate countertop which also tops the adjacent L-shaped desk space. Overhead cabinets on the desk provide additional storage (a must for any crafter!) and the two tall cabinets to the right of the desk feature extra-deep 30” drawers for larger supplies.

This sun-filled room is a crafter’s paradise! But don’t take our word for it. We spoke with the homeowner to find out what inspired her to do this project, her experience working with us, and, most importantly, what she is looking forward to most about her newly completed space!

Inspiration, Process & Results – Interview with the Homeowner

Q: What inspired you to transform this spare room into a craft room?

Homeowner: I have always been a creative person and with the build of our new home, I finally had the room to create my perfect space! My husband got his basement, I got my craft room!

Q: How do you intend to use the room? What kind of crafting do you do?

Homeowner: I was an art minor in college and with that was exposed to many different mediums. I like to dabble in a little bit of everything: drawing, painting, photography, textile art and quilting, beading, scrapbooking . . .this is my area of the house to use as I please, where everything is organized and I can leave projects out and no one has to see the mess.

Q: How did the planning process work? Did you have ideas of what you wanted in terms of design and features? What did you think of the planning and installation process overall?

Homeowner: The planning process was very smooth. Rick came out, took measurements, and walked us through his process. We discussed what we were looking for in terms of the space and that we wanted it to be cohesive with the other cabinetry in the home.

This is a room I have been dreaming about for many, many years so I knew what I was looking for regarding the layout. Rick was very receptive and showed us our options for cabinets, drawers, countertops, colors, sizes, you name it! We received cad drawings/mockup of the room; it was very exciting to see the project take shape!

We only had one or two revisions, we switched out the cabinet and drawer fronts to match the others in the home and removed a closet portion to better fit our budget. After I emailed Rick our changes, he revised the drawings and expenses and we were ready to sign.

The overall process was painless, install was quick, and they did a great job making sure everything was picked up and tidy before they left. My main goal was to create a space that looked like it was built with the original build of our home. Rick did a great job incorporating aspects from around the house in this space. With this custom design, we were able to achieve the “built in” look and provide much-needed storage. The team was very respectful of our home and everyone in it (even our big noisy dogs).

Q: What are some of your favorite features in the room? What are you most looking forward to about your new space?

Homeowner: I love all the storage space; I can have all my supplies organized and easily accessible and yet contained to one room. The island and deep desktop allow for great workspace with plenty of room for more than one person. I can’t wait to get in and settled and start creating!

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Inspired? One of the first words of feedback we heard from the homeowner in regard to this project is that it “exceeded her expectations.” Let us help design a custom storage solution that exceeds your expectations! At Closets For Life, we design, manufacture, and install custom organization systems for all areas of the home including craft rooms, closets, garages, home offices, mudroom, and more! Head on over to our project gallery for inspiration and when you are ready, reach out to us for a FREE consultation (which can be done virtually)! We’ll discuss your needs, obtain measurements, and within a few days of our visit, follow up with a 3D CAD design of our proposed layout. All free of charge! Once finalized, our custom designs are manufactured locally and typically installed in just two weeks. Ready to get see what we can do? Contact us today!

How to Turn a Cluttered Basement Room into a Multi-Functional Space

Most of us have that room in our house. You know…… the over-crowded room in the basement that is the go-to space for storing random items you rarely (if ever!) use. We don’t intend for it to become an over-filled catch-all space. We start by saying we’ll just store an item there until we have time to go through everything. But days turn to months and months to years and eventually the room is packed to the gills with stuff! Today we want to show you what this room could be with just a bit of TLC.

A Basement Transformation

Our clients came to us wanting to transform their basement storage room into a multi-purpose space. The room’s only purposes up to this point was for laundry (the room housed the washer and dryer) and storage, lots and lots storage. The space was large but so overwhelmed by bins and items that it felt small and cluttered.

When we met with our clients during their free in-home consultation, they expressed their wish to transform the room into a multi-purpose space. The washer and dryer needed to stay but they also wanted to incorporate space for exercise and a crafting/wrapping station, all while still maintaining some storage capacity. Their plans were to empty the room of its contents, sheet rock and paint the walls and finish the cement floor with an epoxy finish. They wanted us to design and install an overall cabinet and storage solution that tied the room together and assisted them in using the space for multiple purposes.

We set about designing a solution that would run along two of the walls, leaving ample space for exercise equipment in the center. Running along one wall, we installed base cabinets with custom sized drawers for holding wrapping paper and craft supplies. The wrapping paper drawers are 40″ deep, big enough to hold 3′ rolls of wrapping paper! Ample counter space provides plenty of room for crafting or wrapping. A TV mounted above the craft space can be used while exercising.

Along the second wall, we incorporated tall storage cabinets for hanging seasonal clothing items and other laundry storage. The washing machine and dryer are encased, providing a counter space above the units for folding and a base cabinet to the right of the washer and dryer can be used for laundry supply storage with a hanging area for clean clothes above.

All of the cabinetry was constructed using Stevenswood Artika textured melamine in Takase Teak which gives the room a sophisticated and polished feel. All together, the transformation was amazing! Our clients were overjoyed with the results, having gained a significant amount of new usable space in their existing home. To see larger photos of this project, click here to visit our Houzz page.

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