20 Craft Room storage and organization ideas that will inspire and leave you ready to tackle organizing your craft supplies. These budget-friendly DIYs are perfect for small spaces accessories.
These craft room ideas will certainly inspire! Let’s be honest, a gorgeous and organized craft room is just fun!
**UPDATE: I have completed my own storage and you can see it in my Craft Room Makeover here! I have included a few ideas below from that makeover.
Long ago, I asserted that hubby and I would always share an office. To tell the truth, he hasn’t always been the fondest of this idea. I can’t blame him as my philosophy is not to put away a project until it is finished (i.e. messy girl). For example, one time he moved his desk into another room. I slid into one of my bratty, petty, and sort-of-hilarious episodes and would text him (he was literally next door) to “come here please” over and over and over. Yeah, it was petty, but he moved back. Now I have to clean up my act if I want to keep it that way.
My Requirements for Craft Room Organization
- LOTS of wall storage
- Area for kids to draw and display artwork
- Must be designed to keep my messy self under control
- Must be light and bright (for photography and vision)
- Have a computer station
- Must be cheap (budget is under $1000)
- Must be inspiring!
To tell you about my craft room, it’s a 16x9ft room. It already has crown molding and it has no overhead light.
Pegboards for Organization
One of the major requirements for my own craft room storage is to build a pegboard on the wall above my desk. Pegboards are perfect for custom craft room storage and small supplies.
Clean simple and full of fun! This sewing room pegboard organizer blends both functional storage and pretty. Love the little touches like the picture frames to encourage good work.
This colorful pegboard is also one of my favorites. What a genius way to store rolls of vinyl! Also, small tools are in easy reach and the cups are great for pens, glue, and tape.
Craft Room Wall Storage Ideas
But I know that hanging a pegboard isn’t nearly enough storage for my hoard of craft supplies. So, I asked hubby to build me a version of this storage unit:
This wall storage is a great way to store ribbons, paint bottles, stamp pads, glitter, and colorful items I want to display.
For my son’s artwork, I have the perfect way for him to display it in all its glory!
Wall Display for Children’s Art, Photographs, or even Christmas Cards
Craft Room Display Shelves
Shelves are some of the best ways to organize items for easy access and display them. They can be as simple as some IKEA bookcases along a wall or even sophisticated built-ins.
The decorative storage on this bookcase is both beautiful and functional with the use of antique suitcases and rustic crates.
This moveable display shelf includes plans for building it. The simple crates are easy to label and store items by category.
I chose this craft room for so many reasons. First the color on the back of the bookshelf is so fun and a great way to create cohesion in the space. However, I also love the flat file cabinet (also known as a Hamilton type or printer’s cabinet). It is great for storing markers, paper, and flat tools or utensils.
More Craft Room Organization Ideas
Ok, now that we have the storage covered, I still need some inspiration for storing cute supplies that will be in the viewable area.
Check these ideas out!
- Get this 3-tier unit here from a post on workspace organization
- Thread Organizer that you can frame on the wall
- Glitter Glue Storage
- Embellishment Tackle Box
- Markers in Apothecary Jars (love these jars)
- Craft Supplies in Mason Jars
- Storing Ribbon on Clothespins
- Craft Paint in IKEA buckets – I’m not sure if IKEA has these buckets still, but you can use a window box and hangers like these a similar effect.
- Craft Supply Carts
I think this room is gonna shape up to be a dream judging from all these beautiful craft room ideas! Do you have any unique ways to store office and craft supplies?
SEE THE CRAFT ROOM MAKEOVER HERE
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Alexander Jacques Sabucido says
This room ideas are actually great and impressive. We should try this in our room.
Suzi Wollman says
I love this post! I just had the floors in my house redone and it was a grand excuse to reorganize my craft room. I used many of the same ideas. The cute little carts that are $79 at Amazon are only $30 at Container Store. I use two: one for paint supplies and one for sewing supplies. Wish I could share pictures!
Candy G. says
I love looking at craft ideas, whether it’s gifts or rooms. At our present house I thought I’d have a craft room in our pass through bedroom, but it didn’t last long. It became a dumping area. We bought a house up in central Wisconsin and I plan on having my craft room in a section of our basement. There’s already a pegboard there that I plan on painting white to make it stand out. My husband will be hanging some florescent lights (the ones that are in my present ‘craft room’ because there’s only one bulb in there right now and you have to screw it in to light it. I hope to get back to my crafting once we’re settled and finishing all the craft projects I started plus some new ones. I’m retired now so I’ll have lots of time to concentrate on having fun and hopefully being creative.
Rachel says
Sounds like you have your work cut out for you, but I do hope you can get back to crafting again soon. It’s such a fun hobby and so useful. Having a dedicated space feels amazing and so organized, but I totally understand it becoming a dumping ground. My family tries hard to do that to me too, lol, but I’ve developed a few strategies to keep it at bay, such as not buying items without a specific project in mind (so hard!) and having a “reset” day where I basically declutter and clean and get the small projects out of the way before I can start any new ones. Very therapeutic! Best of luck on your new space and I hope you love it!
Emmanuel says
That’s funny! I almost have the same Pegboards and I love it.
Christina Cole says
This is great, I’m currently creating my new art studio and envision it as cleverly crafty as what you have pictured.
Rachel says
Thank you for the kind words! Having a dedicated space to be artistic and creative is about the best thing ever. I bet your space will be beautiful and functional when it is finished and I would love to see it!
Crystal says
Good luck!!!! You know you can use those wood crates for files? they fit perfectly! I just made some for my office 🙂 Thanks for linking up to Feature Friday!
Rachel says
That’s a cool idea! I will have to keep that in mind when we get everything back into the office and I have to sort it all out. We pulled all the cabinets out this weekend to paint them in the basement. It’s a huge mess, haha!
Sheena says
My craft room is my sunroom so I have plenty of light but its a shared space. I had it almost completely how I wanted it to share and then we started homeschooling and I had to adjust ALOT!! Also my dogs’ kennels are in there so they have their area and my husband has a corner with tools in it. I have some pegboard, lots of shelving, baskets and I love glass jars for storing. Hopefully I can get it in order once school is out and share it because we are planning to put our house on the market in a few months.
Rachel says
I love common areas like that where eveyone has their own station and can work on their own thing. Keeps everyone close. Good luck with the house move!
Travel Animal Doctor says
I love that pegboard organizer idea. Wow.
Kate Rigby (@mrsdiggerhound) says
Some great craft room ideas. I’m slowing taking over our study and it has really become my craft room. Hubby’s pretty good though he actually made me a gorgeous thread holder for Christmas and bought me lots of threads to fill it up.
I love peg boards. I have bought myself little hooks and things to use on one but not got around to doing one yet 😉
Carrie @ curlycraftymom says
You have me dreaming of the peg board that I plan to put in my office whenever I can get the hubby to help me! Great pics!