Moving and craft rooms

So I’ve been in the process of renovating a house, which I haven’t talked about much… We’re going to build a house, and we’re renovating one to live in while we build… I like to think of this as an architectural version of doing a pair of fingerless gloves in the midst of a never-ending sweater.

Anyway, there is a huge bonus to renovating and eventually moving into this house: There’s an extra room.

Right now, we live in a teeny house. It’s smaller than the last apartment I rented. Anyway, it has three bedrooms: one for us, one for guests (and yarn storage), and one for the office. Now, there is this whole extra room, and it’s all MINE! Mine mine mine.

Okay, that’s not quite accurate. It’s going to be my craft room. And I am so excited. It has a weird ceiling and is super long, but it’s going to be home to my sewing cabinet, machines, a cutting table, small desk, and storage for all of my lovely craft adventures! So exciting!

The room is ready to move in- that floor? We installed it. Oh yeah! And um… The curtains will be hemmed, once my sewing machine comes back from magical Repairland.

I’ve always wanted a craft room, and although the furniture is a hodgepodge of miscellaneous pieces (including a desk of mine from childhood that is serving as sewing storage), I’m excited for the ability to work in a non-temporary way.

There was a floor model sale at The Container Store over the summer, and I got to grab some of these:

I have two doored cubes, two with shelves, and two with these diagonal wine storage dividers in them. I’ve stacked them in a 2w x 3h cube in an unused space. I’m thinking I can keep some books, notions, blocking supplies and spare needles in these. My yarn, as I’ve shown you before, resides in airtight containers to combat wool-eating insects, so no artful displays for me. In a perfect world, I’d love something like this for assorted notions and reference books:

I don’t actually have a ton of knitting supplies to store- the glory of the craft, really, because you can have a ton of room for yarn, instead. I’ll probably keep those large bins out, but find a nice way of making them presentable. My biggest issue now is the giant stack of Vogue Knitting magazines that are piling up – I’d like to keep them visible and accessible, without requiring an entirely different piece of furniture. Maybe more steel cubes are in my future…

Do any of you have a craft room? Show me photos in the comments!
– YX