After almost a year it is finally done, my craft room is complete and open for business!
This is what the room looked like before …
Don’t you love the moving boxes and bare walls? Just blah enough to get my creative juices flowing! I decided I wanted to paint the walls a warm Pumpkin Spice color. I was pretty stoked when Matt agreed to this color and helped me paint! Squeee!
After the walls were done I really wanted to try a faux wallpaper technique.
I was truly inspired by a blog post by Ainhoa at A Little Bit of Everything. In this particular post she madeover an IKEA rug by painting a trellis pattern on the rug. Since she was kind enough to include a link for her stencil, I knew that was what I was going to do, and when I woke up one Saturday morning and Matt had painstakingly created the trellis stencil for me I knew I had to do it!
So after many many many many hour (seriously this took forever) I am happy to reveal to you my
Craft Room with the trellis wall treatment! If you would like to learn how to re-create this type of wall treatment head over HERE.
I know I am biased but I would have say this is the best craft room this side the Mason Dixon line
(that’s a Southernism for BEST CRAFT ROOM EVER!).
Antique sewing table, complete with hand painted one yard tape measure.
I was able to recycle a set of shelves from our old house. The metal shelf was a craigslist find that I paid a whopping $ 1.00 for; a little spray paint and it was perfect. The craft baskets were picked up on clearance at Walmart and hold my future project out where I can see them.
A great place to display some of my favorite pictures,
and items I hold close to my heart.
Storage for small items!
And the tiniest coolest miter saw I have ever seen or used.
Yet another Walmart clearance basket with the hardware from an old door I picked up at the
Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Knoxville, TN.
I haven’t decided exactly what I will be doing with these but I can promise I will do something!
I was given a floral chair so I added a white boxpleat slipcover and now I have a comfy place to brainstorm or even dare I say it … Relax!
This vintage cart, another Habitat find, is the perfect place to store my fabrics so they are visible.
And let’s not forget the awesome Desk that Matt painstakingly refinished for me!
Fabric bulletin board for my fabric swatches and other small projects.
And finally I attempted my first DIY chalk board. This is the perfect place for my ToDo list!
Thanks for touring my craft room!
Check out the before and after …
Sadly I had to kick the pups out of the room during the photo shoot … they kept photo bombing me!
Wow! Jacque and Matt, you did an AWESOME job! Right now I am without a craft room, so I'm drooling over yours. Love the pumpkin with the sky blue accent. Well done!
Thank you so much! This room was really fun to design! I have never gone so bold with colors before I am so glad I did!
Beautiful!!! I love it!!
Thank you :o)
What a great craft room! Looks like a great place to get creative in! Love that orange wall! Beautiful!
Thank you, it has been very inspiring!
Nice! Thanks for sharing Joann
Thank you Joann!
Pretty awesome…love your color choices!
Wow, love this room. That wall with the stencil really pops, where did you get the stencil? I was just over at Cutting Edge looking at a very similar one for my craft room….too funny. I wanted to let you know that I am passing down the Liebster award to you.
-Kristel
How cool are you?!? Thank you so much! It is such a good feeling to know that I am on the right track with this blog! 🙂
-Side note I went ahead and linked up the word stencil with a direct link to 'A Little Bit of Everything's' post that has the stencil link on it!
-Jacque
Wait a minute, I just saw where you got the stencil from…silly me.
I love the stenciled wall- it's gorgeous! That must've taken a ton of hours. I'm glad I could help!
Hahaha you have no idea … wait after your rug you probably have a very good idea! Let's just say it will probably be the first and only wall I EVER do that treatment to haha
What an awesome craft room! It's so bright & fun!!!! I would love for you to share it at my party going on now at Jillify It!
Jill
http://www.jillifyit.com
Thanks Jill! Can't wait to check your party out, I love being inspired by other crafty bloggers :o)
This is so fun and fabulous I think just being in this room could inspire me to greatness! I love the color, it's such a happy color and I love that you accented the wall with the stencil. Genius! Absolutely a perfect 10!
Thanks again for the Leibster award, I'm so glad you found me!
XOXO,
Rachel
Thanks Rachel! Such sweet kind words :o)
Thanks for the tour, I love it!! I always knew you were talented and smart!!!!
Miss Linda
Thanks Miss Linda :o)
I love this!!! I love the orange and blue together, just beautiful!!
Thank you Kelli! I'm so glad it came together … I was starting to get worried since it took so long! 🙂
You have so many amazing ideas and crafted projects in here. I love it! I would love for you to link up at my Thrifty Under {$50} Friday Party! See you soon!!
XOXO,
Rachel
Done and DONE!
Ohhhh WOW! Seriously gorgeous colour you have on your walls. And that is a stencil??? Good Job indeed.
Your craft room is so pretty, spacious and contemporary. loving your style. I believe you won a Leibster Award too? So did I this week — great isn't it? I've blog hopped on over from SwirlyGirl Dreams and Decor to say hi.
Jennie. xx
p.s I have a blog Linky Party tomorrow that you just my be interested in. For crafters and photographers. 😉
Thanks for the link party invite, can't wait to link up! Congrats on the award!!!!!!!
Yes it is a stencil and it took forever hahaha … good thing my husband is a stickler for taking the time to do things right the first time or this could have been a huge disaster! Hopefully Soon I will be posting the HOW to of this wall treatment!
-Jacque
Nice. I love the wall and the colors are awesome.
Thank you Tranae!
That is awesome!!! What a fantastic makeover! Lots of hard work, I bet, but sooo well worth it!
Thanks for linking!
–Katie
Thanks Katie! It was worth it every painstaking second of it :o)
This is the best craft room by far that I have seen. Packed full of color and function! Thanks so much for sharing at the newbie party.
Thank you so much Debbie & thank you for hosting! I cannot wait to share the tutorial on how to stencil the wall!
-Jacque
Wow! That is just gorgeous. Very nice job!!
Thank you Allie!
Beautiful craft room! I really love the color combination! You did an awesome job on this! 🙂
Thank you Michelle!
What a wonderful space to create in! Love all the details, especially the antique sewing table with painted on measuring stick. Cute pups, too! I'm a new follower.
Sharla
Thank you Sharla! That craft table was a craigslist find my husband picked up for me, it is perfect for the room! Thanks for visiting and welcome to theDIYvillage!
-Jacque
Wow! I had to check this out, because I have this thing for orange and white! LOVING your craft room! I'm inspired just by looking at it! Great job!
I've done a few orange crafts…. I need more orange….. where? I'm thinking…
Blessings,
Lori
I am still a little surprised that I went with Orange … being from a city where the University of Tennessee is located if you paint a room orange people think you are a huge football fan. Im so glad I stuck with my gut instincts on this one! What about an orange laundry room?
-Jacque
What a fun, colorful and inspiring place to create and craft!
🙂
Linda
Gorgeous and fun! Love those shelves!!! Your little dogs are so cute! I miss my Dalmatian. She was the best dog ever.
Thanks Amanda – I still have a hard time believing it all came together so well! Our pups are basically our babies and I know what you mean Fenway is the most affectionate dog I have ever had!
So tasteful to just do the stencil on the one wall and I love the pops of blue throughout. I also need to see my supplies (or I forget what I have) so I love that you have pretty bins and shelves everywhere. I came over from DebbieDoo's newbie party.
Thanks for visiting! As soon as I can I plan on doing a tutorial on how I/we stenciled the wall. It may have not been the smartest way to do it but it definitely turned out great!
Visiting from Debbiedoo's. What an awesome place to create! Love the vibrant orange. It's a great shade!! Happy crafting =)
Thank you for visiting! I think the color was actually supposed to be Texas Longhorn Orange but I prefer to call it Pumpkin Spice :o)
Visiting from Debbiedoo's! Congrats on a beautiful makeover! The orange and turquoise are fantastic together!
Blessings, Lorraine
Thank you Lorraine! Orange is my new favorite color!
Hi, I'm stopping by from Debbiedoo's party. Love your craft room. Great colors. Nice job!!!
Shasta
Thank you Shasta! And thanks for stopping by and letting me know you like it, means a lot!
Fabulous – gotta love a gal that embraces color! And that antique sewing table – I want it!!
New Linky follower
Kelly
Love, love, love the pumpkin walls. I love orange and I’m having a hard time finding just the right shade. Can I ask what you used? Thanks
I absolutely LOVE your stenciled wall! I was going to do that our current laundry room revamp but i tried doing it by hand by tracing a cardboard stencil… it was a no go! But your wall turned out fabulously – i love the orange and turqouise scheme too!
Krista