Hexagon Quilt... the beginning
10 years ago
Showing posts with label Craft room. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Craft room. Show all posts
This is going to be a series of blog posts because to be honest, I don't know how long this project will take. When we had Lucas we transformed the guest bedroom into a nursery and since then we've not had a place for guests to stay. The second bedroom has been mostly crap storage and what counts as my craft room for the past 5 years (though pretty much 4 of those 5 years it has sat virtually without a cool space to actually do any crafting or sewing because I was either pregnant, a new Mom or in grad school.)
I got fed up last weekend and started yanking EVERYTHING out of the craft closet (including the shelving which I had put up last year. You can see the crap closet here.
Here is what it looked like after I pulled everything out of it (you can't see all of it because of the angle but you get the idea.)
I went through almost everything in the closet and I either donated, gave away, repacked or threw out a bunch of stuff. I'm not done yet but its getting better. My plan is to move my desk and scrapbooking stuff, sewing machine and photos into the closet and make it a craft closet. Eventually the plan is to put a daybed with a trundle in here, and since there's no harm in sharing, eventually maybe another little Fletcher in the next year or two. :) But don't get excited yet. I still have a long ways to go.
The closet was hideously ugly pinky peach (apparently the former owner had a love affair with the stuff because ALL of the bedrooms were this horrid color) and they didn't even do a proper job when they painted it because there was ugly yellow paint showing through behind the peachy pink. I had to patch a vast amount of nail holes (wish I'd taken a picture but I forgot) and to make more room I also removed the accordian doors that I hated anyway. At 7pm today I decided was the PERFECT time to paint the closet (don't know why, but when inspiration strikes you just have to go with it.) So here's the before and after (and the first of many pics you'll see of this closet, I promise.) Its a sort of neutral taupe color now (I also painted the baseboards to see what it would look like...don't know if I'll leave them that color but for now its better than the peachy, yellow, dingy white color they were (because the lazy-arse people who lived here before didn't bother to clean up the drips or protect the baseboards from the colors they painted the closet.)
The carpet is going to get yanked out eventually and we'll replace it with the same laminate flooring we used throughout the livingroom and hallway which connects to this bedroom. Its definitely a work in progress, but it feels nice that I can now start to move my desk in and create a working space!
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