{"id":417,"date":"2016-07-21T05:19:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T09:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tealdragon.net\/tealdragongal\/?p=417"},"modified":"2016-07-21T05:19:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T09:19:18","slug":"craft-room-with-a-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tealdragon.net\/tealdragongal\/2016\/07\/craft-room-with-a-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Craft Room with a View"},"content":{"rendered":"

After almost 15 years in my large stamp area, I have downsized my work area (and many supplies!) to create a [stamp] room with a view!\"27913165782_75731d6508_k\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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My previous stamp room was about half of our home’s basement office. \u00a0I had a lot more storage above and below my work table. \u00a0But after struggling to find stamping\u00a0motivation for well over five years, I began to suspect that what I really needed was a stamp area with natural light. \u00a0With three kids age 15 and under, none of our four bedrooms were going to be available anytime soon. \u00a0The only space left\u00a0with a nearby window was our south facing dining room.<\/p>\n

My plan for my new work area was to create a space that could easily be moved out of the way when we wanted to use the dining room for entertaining. \u00a0I selected only <\/a>my favorite stamps and supplies, and set up six\u00a0shelf storage cubes<\/a>\u00a0in a corner. \u00a0Then I used a folding table in front of the window so that I can fold my work table and set it against the wall under the window when needed. \u00a0I added a rolling cart of drawers<\/a> for extra storage that can\u00a0be rolled into the corner when packing up. \u00a0I am able to convert my area in about 5 minutes from stamping work space to packed up and out of the way!<\/p>\n

I gave away many extra stamps and supplies to my stamping friends (if it doesn’t spark joy, set it free! ~ KonMari<\/a>), but I wasn’t able to give away all my extra stamps yet. \u00a0So I’ve stored extras in the basement such as off-season stamps, and sets I don’t use often.<\/p>\n

Since my work space is viewable from our front hallway, I reserved a storage shelf for a box that works as a drawer for holding works in progress out of sight between crafting sessions.<\/p>\n

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Another view of my stamping area shows the work table in front of the window, rolling cart of drawers off the left of the photo, white cube shelves to the left with paper storage and a display board above, ink pads stored in a former audio cassette shelf to the left of the window. \u00a0I have since added a small white table lamp (from Target) for my work table for extra light when needed.<\/p>\n

It surprises me how many supplies I can fit in such a small area and that I can work very happily with a greatly reduced selection of paper, stamps and tools. \u00a0I am beginning to believe\u00a0that having fewer supplies actually increases my creative inspiration as there are fewer choices and distractions.<\/p>\n

I still have less time to stamp than I’d like, but when I do have time I look forward to creative\u00a0time at my table by a window!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After almost 15 years in my large stamp area, I have downsized my work area (and many supplies!) to create a [stamp] room with a view!               My previous stamp room was about half of our home’s basement office. \u00a0I had a lot more storage above and below my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-papercrafts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4w3yf-6J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tealdragon.net\/tealdragongal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tealdragon.net\/tealdragongal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tealdragon.net\/tealdragongal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tealdragon.net\/tealdragongal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tealdragon.net\/tealdragongal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tealdragon.net\/tealdragongal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/tealdragon.net\/tealdragongal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tealdragon.net\/tealdragongal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tealdragon.net\/tealdragongal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tealdragon.net\/tealdragongal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}