The sewing side of the room

I spent the past couple of weeks working on my sewing room.  The room has seen many changes over the past 10 years.  It is a walk through room so we put up a wall to make it private for our son.  Winter came and the room was freezing so we moved the crib into our room for a while.  After we got the bedrooms situated the wall came down and we were going to make it into a family room.  I painted it a warm darker kind of brown anticipating a big comfy couch, TV and video games.

The drawing, drafting, painting, office side of the room

While waiting for the time and money to make up the new family room, I had a few sewing projects.  I set up a tiny sewing station in the room.  Then came the ironing board….  then it started to grow into a larger operation when I learned quilt making.  My son, who is 11 now describes my taking over that room as a virus.

So, I finally got around to painting the walls a light neutral color.  I made a proper design wall, bulletin board, installed thread racks, made customized shelving for all of my paints, pens, brushes, ironing supplies, and stuff.

Painting done, materials for design wall ready to go

bulletin board

finished design wall and thread rack up

getting the shelves ready

A little messy because I was working on stuff.  It works so much better with all of this storage!

The sewing side:  thread on the wall, storage for buttons, beads, needles, gadgets, tools, and all kinds of stuff!  The picture is a vintage Italian fabric weaving company poster.  It has spiders and webs.  So cool.

The “table” is two cheap desks I got at Ikea. I cut out the opening for the sewing machine and installed a shelf underneath to make the machine flush

The cutting mat stays there because there is no more wall space to try to hang it.  But if I need to work on a large quilt, I take it to the bedroom so the quilt can slide easily on the desk.  The white cart came from Ikea too.  I made a mini ironing mat for the top for when I use my ironing wand.

The painting, drawing, drafting, office side:   Custom shelving for all that junk.  The top shelf is off center because I’m going to make a second one.  I just need to pick up the materials.  The long one I made first using recycled materials.  That’s when I knew I needed more!

The ironing station has a box shelf for water, starch, basting spray and a container with all my scissors and rotary blades.  The rulers hang on the wall to keep them together. I added a narrow shelf made from recycled materials to display some inspiration.

This shelf unit is still not organized yet.  I got this at Ikea.  It stands where the old wall used to be to make a little hallway to the laundry room (convenient!).  I like this because I get a lot of light from the window if I don’t stuff too much stuff in there.

I hope you enjoyed the tour.  I took pictures during the whole process and will post it up in the tutorials section as soon as I can.  I’ll explain step by step how I made the design wall, the bulletin board, the custom shelves, Ironing board cover, and how I customized my desk for my sewing machine.

Tell me what you think!  Oh, but please ignore the floor…  I’m stuck with it for now.  I’m thinking of painting it.