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.

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.

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

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.

Like Kevin said, this office looks like it actually gets used. I like it a lot.

Great use of the wall as organizing space!

Best,
Shalin

This has inspired me to put the finishing touches on my craft area.