Craft Room / Study

The Craft Room/Study is the smallest room in the house and was the only one without a wardrobe (lucky for us as we would've ripped it out!). It started life like the other rooms with daggy carpet, dusty blue blinds and boring beige walls.

Before with carpet removed, old blinds, beige walls

Old blinds

I’ll spare you the painting details as we followed the same process as before with the Guest Bedroom and Master Bedroom, except that as there was no wardrobe to rip out of this room there was no peeling paint off the walls which was a relief so that saved us a lot of time. We filled the smaller holes and sanded until smooth then it was straight into the painting ... we picked Mountain Peak in double strength for this room.

Filling the holes in the walls

Mixing the paint with our cool paint stirrer

Walls painted

We also went to the extra effort with the floorboards of putting filler in every little gap where the wood panels join the other, as initially we only filled the holes from the nail marks but not the grooves and unfortunately all the grains of sand get stuck and you can’t quite get in there to clean so decided to fill the buggers up this time and we will do this for each room we do from now on. Here's a closer look at those floorboards to see how well they sealed and how much they gleam with that extra coat of Tung Oil. Definitely worth the effort I say.

Floors before - holes filled and sanded back

Floors after - sealed and shiny

Last thing was to hang up some shiny new blinds then the hard work was done and the easy part handed over to yours truly … transforming this blank canvass into my very own Craft Room/Study.

After - new blinds up

The only furniture I bought was the bookcase (Ikea's biggest one) and you can see my super styling efforts here. It is still a work in progress but I love having my own bookcase I can't believe I've survived all these years without one!

New bookcase being assembled

Bookcase styled

The rug was also a feature purchase and makes a real statement sitting pretty in the middle of the room.

The other furniture in the room is the computer desk and chair which I never sat at, having a laptop I just sit on the couch it's so much more convenient so I gave away the desk and chair.

Before with computer desk and chair

Now I have a feature chair in it's place but I'm thinking it dominates the room too much so that will probably go soon too!

Now with feature chair

The chest of drawers and small bedside we already had and gave them a new lease of life by replacing the handles with the ones that were on the master bedroom wardrobe we ripped out. Now they look pretty shabby chic and are the perfect size to hold all my card making supplies which means I can actually find stuff when I need it now (so this is what it's like to be organised!)

Chest of drawers with revamed handles, used for crafty storage

The baskets I'm using as a wrapping station were found at a church fair and a tackled with a can of yellow spray paint which is the colour theme I'm trying to bring into the room black, white, yellow - my favourite combo.

Baskets painted and turned into a wrapping station



The filing cabinet I bought at an auction and because it's grey and behind the door it's not an eyesore and blends right in. Its so good having our paperwork all organised I can find what I need when I need it.

Filing cabinet organisation

I’ve wanted some wall decals for I don’t know how long and surprisingly they've been a bit hard to find here so I thought I'd have to resort to buying some online, so when I stumbled on these mirrored wall decals I couldn’t race to the till fast enough! It took Pete a bit of convincing before he let me stick them up and I had to pinkie swear I wouldn’t want to take them off ever! I also have a bit of an obsession with birdcages and couldn't resist this wooden cage being hung up too.

Wall decals going up

Bird cage going up

After my birdy wall I just love it

So that's my room for creativity, card making, wrapping pressies, and where I browse through my growing book collection. I love having my own space and a place I can be as girly and feminine as I like. Still to do is find a funky light fitting, swap the big chair for a storage box that I can sit on and THEN it’ll be done.

Room breakdown:
Bookcase Ikea $269
Filing cabinet Auction $10
Rug $150
Desk and chair already had $0
Desk runner Spotlight $18
Jarrah chair already had $0
Leather recliner part of set $150
Wall decals Kmart $15
Birdcage Guildford Antique Shop $28 and Bird $10
Umbrella stand Target $13

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