Organizing the Craft Closet

Hi Folks,

We are going to be hosting a house full of people in 3 WEEKS!  With one bedroom ready to go, one in needs of a few items, we have an bedroom/workspace that is in desparate needs of attention.  I have a slew of craft products and in the fervor of cleaning out my closet I also purged some unnecessary items to donate (fabric, yarn, etc) but they were still needing to be organized a bit better.  I would like to note that this is not my dream craft closet but I needed to pare it down and organize everything since we are having people stay in this room.

Below is what the closet was looking like before:

Problems:

• craft items take up TWO closets
• not enough shelving to contain it all in one
• not enough shelf space for non-stackable items
• not enough organization (group like with like)

Here is the craft closet, emphasis on singular closet here.  

• I did not purchase anything.  I used containers and boxed I already had but were just not being used efficiently.   I also moved one of the shelves from the right closet to the top most supports in the left.  
• Grouped photo boxes that are accessed most often on the bottom shelf and stacked them.  Moved less used photo boxes to the top most shelf.
• Group paint brushes/scissors, group glues, paints, etc.
• Pared down my scrap fabric.  I always end up donating medium sized pieces of leftover fabric and then one or two weeks later I find a use/need for them.  But I cannot keep so much fabric with the space I have allotted, so I was forced to downsize.
• Spare jars and containers are stored out of sight in a canvas container in the other closet on the top most shelf.
• Wrapping paper stored vertically, gift bags and boxes consolidated to lower drawer in storage unit.

 

This is just part of the room refresh and I will ashamedly share the pictures of what the space looked like before and proudly share what it looks like once we're done!

Thanks and have a great Saturday!  Go Hokies!