Workspace of the Week: A place for everything
This week’s Workspace of the Week is GayleRB’s home office and craft area:
In the photo description in our flickr pool, GayleRB says that her area is “not completely clutter-free, but I’m getting there!” Okay, sure, there are a few things that could find homes, but for the most part I am extremely impressed with this space. She has a lot — and I mean a MASSIVE amount — of scrapbooking and craft supplies, and all of the supplies are contained. Additionally, her office area is organized and effective at tackling all of her home office needs. I look at this space and know that it is used, and used well. Like she said, it might not be completely free of clutter, but it is definitely a highly useful and organized space. Thank you, GayleRB, for sharing your home office with us!
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Posted by Erin on Dec 5, 2008 |
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Posted by Francine - 12/05/2008
This is very inspiring for me as I am in the process of downsizing my crafting area. I don’t know if I will be able to get it looking anything like this, but once I am done maybe I will post a pic to the group
Posted by Zoe - 12/05/2008
Wow, this is inspiring.
I have just moved my office into a larger room and am in the process of creating storage. And after seeing this photo I now know that I NEED SHELVING!
Posted by Tabitha (From Single to Married) - 12/05/2008
hey – that looks like my office- gotta love Elfa!!
Posted by Jeremy - 12/05/2008
That’s not a lot of scrapbooking supplies. My mother-in-law (hoarder) has an entire room of scrapbooking crap, most of it not opened or used, and she can barely move around in the room. This work space looks like heaven compared to that.
Posted by Sue - 12/05/2008
My thoughts exactly! That’s a relatively tame collection of craft items.
This has inspired me to put the finishing touches on my craft area.
Posted by Jennifer Wilson (Simple Scrapper) - 12/05/2008
Totally and completely swooning over this space! My “space”, if you can call it that, is currently a dining table in the middle of our super-full, hardly-insulated unfinished basement. All of my supplies – still in boxes.
Posted by Shalin - 12/05/2008
This space does seem very organized…but still too visually busy for my taste. Nothing a few yards of cloth and clothesline can’t take care of though
Great use of the wall as organizing space!
Best,
Shalin
Posted by Brandon - 12/05/2008
Great way of organizing a lot of stuff!
Posted by Kevin - 12/05/2008
Great to see someone with a space that looks like they actually work… not one of those little tiny Ikea corners with a small laptop. People with real business have more trouble keeping organized, they have files, invoices, printers, scanners, paper and electronic media, etc.
Posted by Karen - 12/05/2008
That looks like my dream office. I have compromised and keep most of my scrapbooking supplies in an antique secretary desk, next to the big table we use for homeschooling (I wish somebody would post pictures of a Homeschooling workspace of the week!). An armoire holds big stuff and other art supplies for the kids.
Like Kevin said, this office looks like it actually gets used. I like it a lot.
Posted by Jack - 12/05/2008
While some people can, in fact, work with just a laptop on a table, I’m not one of those people either, and it is nice to see actual storage in use here.
Posted by momofthree - 12/05/2008
Guess it’s all in your frame of mind—for I perceive that as a TOKEN amount of scrapbooking and craft supplies!!
In my small house (920 sf) I have my supplies stashed under the dining L shape benches and in four tote bags stacked on either side of my dry sink TV stand….still have a huge heavy Magnavox–not a wall mounted plasma thing expensive as all get out.
I can say I have triple the amount of any one item hanging on the peg board, and at least six times the amount of rubber stamps on the shelf. Forgot to mention==my rubber stamps are on the bottom shelf of a bookcase just inside the front door. The middle and top shelf holds more stamps, the pictures and stuff to scrapbook, and the top is where my kids pile school papers until the grading period is over. Then it’s into the recycle pile 90% of it goes for some they want to keep, nostalgic little buggers.
Yes, the papers on top look cluttered for a while, but now that the paperload coming home from middle and high school is DRASTICALLY reduced, it’s not so bad.
Any parent will tell you, the amount of papers that come home on an almost daily basis from an elementary school are REE-DIC-U-LUS!!!! With three kids in one school for one year only, it was very hard for the school to keep track of which child would take the paper home. In our community, it was not and still is not unheard of for more than three newly immigrant families to huddle into one house of this size. Then, of course, the papers had/still have to be bi-lingual, and you can only imagine just how many trees have died to insure that we all know–in many languagues in our school district–that the PTO is sponsoring a movie night, a fun fair, the open house, the monthly PTO meeting, dinner and dessert for staff the nights of conferences, etc. etc. etc.
Posted by Tania - 12/05/2008
Posted by Jack – 12/05/2008
While some people can, in fact, work with just a laptop on a table, I’m not one of those people either, and it is nice to see actual storage in use here.
Agreed. While I’d admire the super minimalist spaces (a Lot), my office will certainly never be like that. I do several different things, and I have to maintain supplies for all of them. It’s nice to see a well organized space from someone who also has to maintain a lot of supplies
Posted by GayleRB - 12/06/2008
Wow- it’s surreal to log onto Unclutterer and find a picture of your office! Thanks for all the compliments!
This office is a work in progress. I’ve been trying to get it uncluttered for several years now. That little desk on the right is way too small for me when I’m actually working on projects. You should see what it looks like now that I’m working on my holiday cards. =)
And this isn’t all of my stuff- I have a closet in that room also with shelves and pegboard that’s filled with more craft and office supplies.
Posted by JulieG - 12/06/2008
I just wanted to say how much I enjoy the Workspace of the Week feature. It’s an inspiration to me to see the variety of workspaces that show the individuality of the owner, without sacrificing practicality.
Posted by adam - 12/06/2008
while that place looks organized, i certainly wouldn’t call it ‘uncluttered’ – looks like a lot of stuff that could be stored out of sight. i mean how often do you use allllll that stuff?
Posted by Karen - 12/06/2008
Adam,
As a fellow scrapbooker/crafter, I can say that it saves a lot of time if you have supplies that are often used (and “often” can mean once a week, or so) ready to access, rather than dig in a closet or boxes under the bed. Shelving actually makes one more efficient.
There is clutter and there is clutter. For somebody who uses crafting tools often, they’re not clutter if they’re hanging handy on a peg board. They WOULD be clutter if they were in a pile in the corner of the room.
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