Where Problems Become Details, My Own Creative Space

 

My husband and I are always tearing something apart in our house and as I prepare to take on a ceiling and lighting job in our kitchen, next week, I'm reflecting on our last renovation. You may or may not know this about me; I'm a creative mess. I love to make things. All things. Anything! 

 

See!?! Total Creative Mess!!   I've been scrapbooking for years. I'm always working on one project or another and until recently, I was working in a pretty uninspiring space. A space that had almost no storage and a giant bed in the middle of it. A bed I covered with layouts, ribbons, glue, scissors. Heaven forbid I'd have a guest. I'd have to hide everything away! Lose momentum on projects, or lose the projects all together! It came from this frustration that my husband and I decided to upgrade my creative space. 

 

The basement bedroom has a tiny window. An itty bitty window that allows minimal light into a rather large basement room. There was a huge, oversized closet in the room that inefficiently housed most of my supplies. It jutted out from the wall and covered half of the window. As enlarging the window was not an option at this point, my husband decided our best approach was to remove the closet. Which might seem nuts but it actually worked out quite well once we dealt with headaches related to the design of the space. The closet was placed where it was, as it hid the duct work and air vents that ran from one end of house to the other. We opted to box the duct work in and wall paper the wall as a feature to house my desk and the IKEA storage unit we purchased for my supplies. 

 

There was a support post built into one of the closet walls. We structurally needed to leave that where it was and opted to distress pallet boards to build it in. It became a feature as well. A problem became a detail. 

 

These details or problems add character to a space and working in an older home, you find problems around every corner!

 

My Scrapbooking Room still needed to be a functional guest room, so we added a beautiful Murphy Bed, from Costco's Bestar Line. Alongside the bed we ordered and installed storage units, from the same line.  This was truly the best solution. I now have the entire floor space for large projects (like my current one...painting and distressing a dining table and chairs). 

 

 

This project worked out very well. I now have an inspiring space with plenty of room to move around! A place to sleep and some extra storage for my guests. Just what I needed!!!

I'll keep you all posted with future adventures in my old house...full of problems...oops! I mean details! 

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