Craft room?

[handcrafted]

Who here actually has a seperate craft room? Those who dont, how do you find space to work?
At the moment OH and i are fighting for the spare room :D

[beadstudio]

I used to have a craft room before my daughter was born. :p

I'm now getting a craft SHED! It a recycled one too! Im waiting for DH to build it and equip it out with lights and electric etc (hes an electrian!) Then I can decorate and furnish it, so we are looking next year before its ready i suppose! :mad:

[Seahorse]

I have a craft table I use in the living room, surrounded by craft rubbish, Im tripping over it most of the time.I also just sit on the sofa a nd work alot too.
But generally the living room looks like a bombs hit it...a very crafty sparkly bomb.

[beadstudio]

I have a craft table I use in the living room, surrounded by craft rubbish, Im tripping over it most of the time.I also just sit on the sofa a nd work alot too.
But generally the living room looks like a bombs hit it...a very crafty sparkly bomb.


Sounds like our living room! The kids are forever skating on stray beads! :D

[fabricandbags]

I don't have a craft room even though we have 2 spare bedrooms but one has king size bed in which takes up all the room - whose ever heard of a spare bedroom with a bed in!!, the other spare room has 'never used' gym equipment!
I use the dining room table which is at one end of our living room - I keep migrating into the middle of the living room with boxes of stuff, fabric, half finished bags etc until my partner goes mad and I have to do a clean up!
I have just had a clean up and moved all the fabric, rolls of interfacing, half completed bags etc into big baskets which are fitted in the wardrobes.
Take everything out, put it all away again - it drives me mad and takes up valuable creating time!

[beadstudio]

Looks like most of us crafters are creative (messy) :mf:


I tell my DH Im not untidy, Im creative, dont think he is fooled though, and anyway I know exactly where eveything is!!!! :o

[knitnstitchsue]

I don't have the hassle of an OH :D so I 'craft' where I like!

When my two daughters moved out last year, I took over the ENTIRE 3-bed house; but I'm wasting precious time flitting from room to room, so I'm in the process of moving all my stuff into the lounge!

3 machines and a swivel chair in the middle - just watch me go >>>>>!!

It's nearer the coffee pot too! :)

[wyattbean]

I do have a work room, but my daughter is making more noise about having a bigger room. The trouble with doll making is i need somewhere for the messy pouring bit, cleaning and firing (my kilns are in the garage!) so the kitchen gets used a lot, I need somewhere that is clean for the china painting bit and then i need another space for the costuming bit...not to mention all the other crafty type bits. I know I can't complain but what i really need is another house....a life size doll house.....Ah well, i can but dream..............

Sue

[Funkyhand]

I'm lucky, I have an office where I do the business end of my business and where the designing is done and then I have the spare room as my craft/stock room. The craft room is a pig sty! Every now and again I have a big clear out but it doesn't take long for it to get back a mess again. It's bad at the moment because I was preparing for my last Ideal World show..but that was last Friday so I should really be starting to clean up..sometime soon!!
Anice xx :):)

[annnoble]

Hi,

I have a craft room, I need to as I work with glass (when glass is cut it splinters all over the place, like small sharp needles!) and need somewhere safe for the kiln to sit. I use our conservatory/lean to.

It has amazing light and with the doors open its lovely. It also locks so I can keep the children, dog and OH out if need be!!!

[janetdc]

I'm lucky enough to have a craft room for my jewellery making which my OH cleared out and painted for me last year. Trouble is i have outgrown it so I now have my beady eye on my son's playroom which is so much bigger. Well he doesn't really need it any more and I have offered him my ironing room which is right by his bedroom so that he can put everything upstairs and have his own space. I'm trying to sell him on the idea!!:mf:

[craftyjan]

i have a craft room that doubles as a spare room for when anyone stays they say its a bit claustraphobic surrounded by all me and my daughters craft stuff before this i was taking over the living room and it was a pain having to put eveything away although my craftroom is stuffed to bursting and have to clear a space to work i will have to stop buying stuff

[Carol29]

I fought for the spare rooma and won! ha ha. Seriously, we converted our attic a few years ago into a den for the kids and put a sofa bed up there for visitors (who are frequently in our house!) and we put a large L shaped desk in the spare room with shelving and "bobs your uncle" I have a work room. We also got a new computer for the boys so the office inherited the old one which suits me perfectly.

So all in all....happy days:D

carol
www.carolshawjewellery.com (http://www.carolshawjewellery.com)
bespoke handmade jewellery

[ClaireP]

I have a craft room - well, till we have kids then I'll be relagated to the utility room :(
Hubby likes me having my own space so he can close the door on all of my mess. hehe! I'm in the process of tidying it and keep finding lots of useful things I'd forgot I've got!

Claire.xx

[jenn]

I have never had a craft room and now both my daughters are adults and make THINGS our total house is a complete tip, full of wool, material, looms, spinning wheel etc. Well I gave up trying to be tidy years ago, and had a notice which I must re-instate which says, 'Please excuse the mess, creative people are untidy, intelligent people understand'

Jenn

[knitnstitchsue]

>>Jenn said
"'Please excuse the mess, creative people are untidy, intelligent people understand'
<<

Heeheehee, I like that :D

Must print that and put it by my front door!

[jenn]

glad you liked it sue I always thought it very clever, someone gave it to me many years ago

jenn

[Apple Tree Crafts]

....there's a thread with pix of our workrooms/areas. Found it...

http://www.craftsforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=8613&highlight=work+rooms

I'm lucky as #1 son is away at Uni. His room was in the attic, until his sister decided she wanted it. I was waiting for sons #2 and #3 to then say they wanted a room each........but they didn't as it would have meant one of them having an ordinary bed, instead of the custom beds my Dad built them which are suspended from their bedroom ceiling joists by chains. Their room is big, so with the beds in the air they have all the floor space they need.

Next was breaking the news to #1 son that he no longer had his own room. He took it well but, after two years at Uni, had already made the mental move and was calling York home instead of here. He'll be back for good next month as he's in his last term after 4 years. No idea where we're going to put him & all his stuff.

Workroom is piled high with my fabrics, sewing machines etc as well as all my stock for craft fairs. The stock used to live in our old car on the drive, but we sold it a few weeks back so it's all heaped on the sofa bed.

Jules

[stallfinder]

I'm supposed to keep my card making bits in the utility room but they usually appear in the living room as I forget to put them back. I tend to sit at the coffee table or the kitchen table but then I find little jewels and glittery bits all over the place. It's a messy business...

[sharon]

When I did curtains I used the 2nd bedroom. We had one of those beds which had another one underneath, I then had my worktable set up over the bed - my table had to be 8' x 5' to accomadate the amount of fabric I worked with. Hubby made the table so it dismantled when grandkids stayed over, all small bits went into a chest of drawers in the corner & rolls of fabric, linings etc stacked in the other corners & in the 3rd bedroom which also doubled up as the study. Luckily everything I made was too big to do anywhere other than the worktable so I didn't take over the house although I trampled lengths of cotton & bits of interlining fluff everywhere.

Now I don't do curtains I've taken down the table (it's in the garage), & intend to have a small work area in the bay window for my sewing machine, still use the chest for my stuff & have this notion that I'll be very neat & tidy & doing genteel sewing in the conservatory or in the living room whilst watching Corrie - of course, that's in a perfect world & I've been told it doesn't exist!! :confused:

A friend works from home as a beautician & used her spare bedroom until her small daughter wasn't so small & needed to be moved out of the cupboard - she bought one of those large pine sheds with french doors for the bottom of the garden, to keep costs down her hubby divided it up inside & put in electrics, cold water supply & insulation. She had a small sink unit with an electric water heater (like a geyser) & even had a small room with a chemical wc in it like you have in a caravan. It's really nice, customers like it & she can spend all day in there without having to go back in the house for tea & the loo! :) She even has fairy lights round the doors so it looks pretty during the dull winter days!

If my garden was big enough I'd definately go for one of those.

[Hannah]

Hi

I dont have a craft room - though saying that I dont even have a bedroom for my youngest son!

I have to use the table in the tiny sitting room but very frustrating as my 2 year old likes to fiddle and cause trouble - I came in the other day to find he had poured his drink all over a bunch of cards I had made that week - argh!

Hannah

[sewtobed]

I use the dining room table - luckily we never eat in there so I get to spread out to a certain extent.

But as we're currently selling the house - we usually have a viewing when its at its most messiest!!

[jenn]

sewtobed, print out the note I said and hang it in a prominent place, 'Creative people are untidy, intelligent people understand. ' that'll floor your prospective purchases, make em laugh anyway, help perhaps with the reason your selling, want a bigger house LOL

Jenn

[craftcrazy]

i have a craftroom, i share mine with craftyjan, shes my mum, but as she said its packed with stuff! but just cant stop buying things thats the probelm! what do you do with that?! keep buying things! :D

[janetdc]

i have a craftroom, i share mine with craftyjan, shes my mum, but as she said its packed with stuff! but just cant stop buying things thats the probelm! what do you do with that?! keep buying things! :D
I hadn't realised that you were Craftyjan's daughter. I've just checked out your website while on the phone to my 80 year old father and got quite a shock when the music kicked in!! I'm used to Jan's but yours took me by surprise. :o:mf:

[Chris W]

My craft room is my shop counter, its not very tidy and certainly not spacious. I have to stand to make the jewellery but it stops me getting bored and annoying my customers who are left to browse in peace.

[Snow angel]

Im lucky enough to have my own craft room and its all been redone so looks lovely. I still have my craft stuff everywhere in the house my poor grandsons room as all my nappy cakes in and hes not to happy about it lol

[Scorch]

Oh, I wish, I wish... but I shouldn't complain, the corner of our never-used (small) dining-room is my office, from when I used to work from home. Now what space of the 4' desk isn;t all over PC & keyboard is my workspace - about a square foot! But you can't see the dining-table for boxes, and they're stacked almost as tall as me along the well, too. That's the trouble with pyrography - the wooden stuff can be a bit big!

[craftcrazy]

I hadn't realised that you were Craftyjan's daughter. I've just checked out your website while on the phone to my 80 year old father and got quite a shock when the music kicked in!! I'm used to Jan's but yours took me by surprise. :o:mf:

yea im am sorry i dont mean to scare any1 with it! sorry if you scream any thing to your dad! :)