Craft Room Furniture

Today I thought I'd share a bit about my reorganized craft room.  This is a picture of my major purchase - A couple of Triple Large Stackable Scrapbook Storage Kits.  I got at a very good price from Chandler Creations.  (Update 2017/05/03 - can't get these there anymore, but they appear to still be available from bestscrapbookshelf.) I had considered at lest 2 other scrapbooking furniture solutions (Scrapbox and ScrapNCube) but for me, this was the right choice.  (The piece of furniture on the right is from IKEA and works great for holding scrapbooks and books of paper that I want to keep in book form.)

As you can see, on the left I have my 12 x 12 papers and cardstock, organized by color.  The next column holds:

• drawers for smaller papers and cardstock - including my scraps. (If you look closely, you'll see that I organized the drawers so that some are 2" deep and others are only 1" deep depending on the color and how much space I would likely need.)
• drawers for decorative elements (borders, frames, etc) - again organized by color
• drawers for accessories (everything from stickers to brads to die cuts and home-made decorative elements) - again organized by color

Here is a closeup:

The third column has drawers for a variety of things:

• Papers and accessories organized by themes (yes, the drawer is just a hair small for 12 x 12 in one direction but I put it at a bit of an angle, and it is fine)
• Stamping supplies - rubber stamps, acrylic stamps (several drawers organized by theme), inks, etc.
• Adhesives
• Glitter, flocking, etc,
• A variety of tools
• Specialty items (like Sara Surfaces stuff from Paper Wishes)

I love that I can arrange the drawers so that the sizes would work for what I wanted to put in them.  I also like that as my needs change, I can order other drawers (1", 2" or 3.5" deep) or paper shelves and just install them in place of what I currently have.