20 Craft Room Ideas to Inspire Creativity
Unleash your inner artist with these craft room ideas
Whether you’re a professional artist or an avid hobbyist, your craft room is a place to design, experiment, and express your creativity. With that in mind, it’s important to design a space that feels as creative as you are.
These 23 craft room ideas will help you turn your spare room—or crafting corner—into a trendy, organized getaway guaranteed to foster creativity. What’s more, you can customize every idea to suit your space and your taste.
Sound interesting? Gather your glue guns, paint brushes, scissors, and ribbons, and let’s start crafting.
Trendy Craft Room Design Ideas
Incorporate a few trendy craft space design ideas and customize them to suit your room.
1. Source Vintage Storage Cabinets
Vintage storage cabinets make craft room organization easy. Head to your local thrift shop to find some well-loved pieces, then polish them up with a fresh coat of paint or stain. Place woven and metal baskets on the shelves for an extra layer of organization.
2. Turn Storage Bins into a Cube Shelf
Create a whimsical, rustic vibe by turning reclaimed storage bins into cube shelves. These wooden cubbies are perfect for storing scrapbook paper, boxes of paint supplies, or stacking trays full of colored pencils and markers.
For a trendy take on craft room storage, take a cue from this room and mix white-washed and earthy brown wood bins.
3. Use Plenty of Plants
There’s no doubt about it: Nature is a source of inspiration for countless crafters. Welcome the outdoors inside by placing small houseplants, oversized greenery, or potted trees in every nook and cranny of your craft room.
4. Build an Island
Looking for a new work table for your craft room? You may consider building a small island. The high-top table will make tackling your DIY projects a breeze. At the same time, the wide countertop will offer plenty of room to work. You can even customize your island to include plenty of storage space for your tools and materials.
5. Utilize Stackable Drawers for Efficient Storage
You don’t always need the most stylish or expensive storage solutions. In most cases, tried-and-true stackable drawers will get the job done and make it easier to find your favorite craft supplies.
Start by measuring your shelves, then find a variety of different sized boxes to store materials. Bonus points for using a label maker to identify each box’s contents.
6. Transform a Laundry Room Into a Craft Room
If you don’t have a room dedicated to arts and crafts, you’re not alone. You’re also not out of luck. You can easily turn a small space into a great crafting corner.
Take this converted laundry room, for example. A pegboard wall offers plenty of storage for materials while windows ensure a bright, well-lit workspace. You can even get crafty with contact paper and update a secondhand table for an efficient, aesthetically pleasing place to work.
7. Use Bookshelves
No built-in shelves? No problem. Simply spend an afternoon building one or two shelving units. Then, fill them with craft materials, completed projects, inspiring books, or anything else that brings a smile to your face.
8. Repurpose Old Lockers
If you thought you’d seen your last locker in high school, think again. These repurposed pieces offer endless storage solutions without taking up a lot of space.
You can even turn your locker makeover into a fun DIY project. Paint it your favorite color, outfit it with shelves, hooks, or tension rods, and turn it into a personalized storage unit perfect for your space.
9. Add Fun Lighting
Your craft room is a creative space, and your lighting should reflect that. Source brightly colored lampshades, funky pendant lights, or sculptural fixtures like this one to keep your space well-lit for late-night crafting.
10. Get Creative with an Accent Wall
Pack a punch and stay inspired with an accent wall. You can take a cue from this craft room and go for a bright shade. Or, anchor your space with wood paneling.
11. Use Light Paint to Make the Room Feel Bigger
Make a small craft room feel twice its size by combining sunlight with light paint. These white walls reflect the natural light, making the space seem brighter and more open despite its square footage.
Must-Have Craft Room Features
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12. Pegboard Walls
Pegboard walls have become a staple in garages and workshops, but they work well in craft rooms, too. Depending on your space, you could opt for a small pegboard installation over your craft table. If room allows, go for an oversized version like this one and customize it with shelves, baskets, and hooks.
13. Adjustable Shelves
Adjustable shelves have found their way into virtually every room in the house, for good reason. The endlessly adaptable, hyper-customizable shelving works in rooms of all shapes and sizes. Whether you arrange them asymmetrically or prefer a simpler approach, you’ll have plenty of room to store materials and show off past projects.
14. Toolboxes
Like pegboards, toolboxes are another unexpected but useful item to steal from the garage. You may decide to pick up a heavy-duty version from your local home improvement store. However, we’re big fans of the charm and simplicity of a wooden toolbox for tabletop storage.
15. Large Glass Jars
It can sometimes feel like you need to buy countless boxes, bins, and jars if you want an organized craft room. That’s not always the case, though. You can probably find some unique storage solutions in your home.
Take some time to explore your pantry, storage closets, and junk drawers for materials that could work as innovative storage containers. For instance, glass jars like these are upcycled perfectly as storage for buttons, mosaic pieces, or pencils and brushes.
16. Tension Rods to Hang Ribbons and Wrapping Paper
If you’ve ever dug through a ribbon drawer or sifted through rolls of wrapping paper, you know these materials aren’t the easiest to organize. This hack could be a game-changer, though.
Instead of storing ribbons and wrapping paper in a drawer or box, hang them on tension rods. Simply run the rod through the spool or cardboard roll and hang it in a closet or shelf. The result? Instant organization and easy access to all the ribbons or paper you could ever need.
17. Picture Ledgers for Storage
No matter if you enjoy painting, embroidery, or sketching, a picture ledger can help keep your creations safe and well-organized. Mix and match vibrantly colored ledgers or stick to a cohesive color scheme like these for a minimalistic approach to organization.
18. Drawer Organizers
Clear the clutter and make crafting even more fun with drawer organizers. Small baskets and bins keep crafting materials in place. You can even DIY your organizers by cutting cardboard strips and gluing or wedging them into your drawers.
19. Ladder Shelves
Working with a small crafting corner? Consider adding a pair of ladder shelves. The airy design will keep the space feeling light and open. At the same time, you’ll have plenty of space to store crafting materials in mixed-and-matched baskets, jars, and boxes.
20. Chalkboard Wall
You know how trendy accent walls are. Make yours work double-time by using chalkboard paint to cover an empty wall. Then, use your giant chalkboard to keep track of schedules, write down ideas, or turn the wall into your own personal canvas.