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If I ever get a dedicated stamping room I want cabinets and drawers. I always want to put everything behind closed doors when I am not using it.
Others work best when they have all of their things on open shelves and racks
Which do you prefer? Everything out in the open or everything behind closed doors?
I agree with you. We just built a new home, and I have a combination craft/laundry room. I do have ink pads, button/accessory carousel, and odds and ends out on my desk; but the majority of my stuff has a home in a cabinet or drawer.
I love the look of everything out...in other people's studios! The reality is I am very easily distracted and I need to have everything tucked away behind closed doors. I don't even have my inks out. I am weird that way, I guess!
I'm some of each. I have my 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock in magazine boxes on my desk with my inkpads. My stamps are in shelves. My punches are in a chrome cube on my desk (my desk is 8 ft long). Most other things are in drawers or magazine holders on the other side of my room.
This, of course is only true if I have recently cleaned--usually everything is everywhere.
Out and available. Definitely.
Some things are semi-put away.
My inks are on a carousel, so I can look at them ... which means I see the cardstock colours.
Ribbons out in the open.
Punches - half on a rod, half on a shelf, a few in a drawer, and those get forgotten!
Stamps - on an open shelf, so I can stand and think what I want.
I just cleaned up, so there's actually space.
I'll put things in containers ... but those containers have to be easily accessible.
If I put things behind closed doors or drawers, I tend to forget I have them. I've started color-coding my stamp sets with colored dots. If I don't use a particular set in a year, it goes in the for-sale bin. But it really makes me use sets that I might otherwise overlook. I do the same thing with my clothes. I put markers on the hangers and when I wear it, I take off the marker. It forces me to wear something besides the same ole 3-4 sets.
When I get my dream craft room, which is the same day I win the lottery, it's going to look like a Lowe's. Metal open shelves, metal work table, long formica work surface. I like an industrial, no-frills look with everything visible. Haven't seen this room in any magazines yet, but it's very clear in my head.
Mary Beth
I have to have everything out where I can see it. My stampin' sanctuary usually looks like a tornado went thru it but I know where everything is. Well, except for my SU! Watercolor Pencils which have been missing for about 6 months. I know they are hiding until I break down and buy new ones then they will reappear.
Mary Beth I love the sound of your "industrial" room. I too like very utilitarian rooms.
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Definitely out in the open. I forget about stuff when it's in a drawer. I love the look of a "closed cupboard" stamp space but I *need* the practicality of an open one.
Right now I have most of my stuff where I can see it. I am thinking that I might want to go with cabnets like for a pantry. That way I can open the doors and stare at chaos for inspiration if I need to. BUt I can close the door after I am done and I can get down to buisness.. When this wil happen I do not know as I am still trying to clear my desk off so I can work on a surface larger that 8x8.
I have to have everything out where I can see it. My stampin' sanctuary usually looks like a tornado went thru it but I know where everything is. Well, except for my SU! Watercolor Pencils which have been missing for about 6 months. I know they are hiding until I break down and buy new ones then they will reappear.
Mary Beth I love the sound of your "industrial" room. I too like very utilitarian rooms.
When you find your Watercolor Pencils ... ask them if they've seen my Simply Adorned Necklace. They may have passed each other!
My craft room is mostly out in the open with book cases, high metal racks with open metal wire drawers and a 10 foot formica counter top for my work space, stacked clear plastic shelves for my 12x12 papers, smaller shelves for my 8x11 papers but with all of that I still have clutter.............. could it be that I have more STUFF than I have room? Maybe I need to get rid of my recliner for more table top space to work. Naw...then I would have no place to relax while I'm my lap top.
I would LOVE to have cabnets to hide the clutter but I have not have the nerve to ask my DH to go that far in turning the second spare bedroom into a craft only room.
I have my papers all in drawers that are labeled by colors, but the drawers are in my sight. My punches are all lined up in view on a bar from IKEA. My stamps are all out of sight. I am toying with the idea of unmouting, but they'll stay in binders. My embellishments (buttons, ribbon) are in cute see through containers.
I'm a some of each. Everything has to have a specific place that it lives. Things also have to be neatly organized and put away. However, I don't mind that all my buttons are in glass jars on an open shelf. I like seeing my ribbon in rainbow order on dowel rods. I like my punches on Bygel rods above my counters.
But my loose ribbons (not on spools) are in boxes in a cabinet with each color in its own box. My cardstock is in hanging folders in a file cabinet. My DSP in is 12x12 file drawers. All my embellies are sorted by type and in drawers that are labeled.
So things can't just hang out in the open unless they are decorative. LOL~ My criteria is that it only stays out if it looks pretty and is organized. I'm such a strange person.
I am a combination of out in the open, but neat, and in cabinets. My craft area is also my kids class room, the computer room and the most used entrance area of the house so I do like things to be some what tidy for when company comes over. At some point and time we plan on building cabinets, both upper and lower to store everything and make it neater looking.
8' wide, 12' high closet of shelves, 7'x3' cabinet, 2 desks, 2 file cabinets, 2 Iris carts, multi drawers and shelves of white and black boxes and containers...Everything neat and put away 90% of the time...
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Everything has to match if it is out in the open. Most of my supplies are in baskets from M's on my 5x5 Expedit - so open, but not visible. I am super messy, but somewhat OCD about being organized, so I have to be able to put everything away quickly.
I just moved my clear stamps into notebooks. I really like that. My paper is in various stages of organizations, so I suppose that is what I need to work on next.
I need stuff out in the open so I can see it but it MUST be in its place and tidy. LOL If I'm not actually using it right there and then it gets put back in its place.
I would love to have it all hidden and clean looking like all those dream scrap rooms you see, however, mine is about a 50/50 mix. And the things that are all covered up and put away never get used. Shame on me.
I like the neat and uncluttered look...not that I have it at the moment - it looks more like a tornado went through recently (haha). I have some open shelves and lots of drawers/cabinets. My craft room was copied from an article I saw in Creating Keepsakes magazine called "While you were at CKU."
I like it neat and put away when I'm not using it but when it's time to create, I pull out lots of different things. Then my desk gets messier and messier until I'm done. ten I clean it all up and start again.
My stuff is mostly stored on open shelves, with some exceptions. next Spring when we start my new craft room, this will change (yippee!).
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I not only have to have everything "out" I have to have it within an arm's reach!!! I have things like stamp pads and punches in drawers, but I don't usually get "inspired" by them.. I have all of my paper, the slice, my stamps in a cd rack, copic markers, clip-it-up all surrounding me in my "L" shaped work space.
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I've got multiple personalities . I keep things that I won't forget in my armoires (papers, inks, most stamp sets, etc.). I keep embellishments in drawers above my desk, but my "go to" stuff is in baskets on my desk. Everything has a home, but you'd never know it most of the time as a good deal of it is just sitting out where I used it last.
Am I the only one who spends more time putting things away than actually stamping?!
Open shelves, clear shoe boxes, peg board and paper racks. I too forget if I can't see things like brayers - 'oh, that'd be fun' kinda thing. And it's definitely tidy. A small laundry room in an unfinished basement sort of demands that! LOL!
i'm a 50/50 'er too most of my stamps, inks, and cardstock are away in cabinets but embossing stuff,adhesive, embellishments, and ribbon are organized within arms reach of me or sitting on my actual table.same with my scrap papers are in the corner of my table in hopes to use them first lol but since i do more then just cards everything has gradually gravitiated to it like my sewing and knitting projects, scrapbook pages,altered gifts it's getting really messy again but would love to have it organized all the time that's just me though
I am a visual person too and although many supplies are in some type of container - they are usually see-thru (but are also labeled) and sitting on IKEA bookcases next to my desk so they are within reach.
Another 50/50 here. Copics, scissors, sakura pens are all on my desk tops. I have papers, embellies and dies on open shelves. My stamps and ribbon are mostly in a closet and my cardstock is in hanging file folders. It works but I'm constantly rearranging!
What type of stamper are you?
