Tips for Organizing Your Cluttered Craft Room

Decluttering your craft room is intimidating but overly rewarding. Your craft room can easily get packed with essentials and unnecessary items over time. Unlike the kitchen and other rooms, organizing your craft room is extremely personal and, in some cases, quite overwhelming. Regardless of the number of your belongings, the best way to organize your craft room is to focus on increasing the available storage. These tips can help you declutter and organize your over-packed craft room.

1. Identify Your Craft Room Categories

The first step to a decluttered and organized craft room is identifying various categories of clutter. Regardless of the severity of the mess, you should begin by separating your craft room supplies. Doing this gives you a better idea of the number of items you’ve purchased over time. The sheer number of supplies you didn’t know were in your craft room will even surprise you. Note that this step simply involves separating your stuff. Don’t worry about organizing them yet.

2. Make Use of Vertical Space

As mentioned, the best way to organize your craft room is to maximize the available storage space. Most homeowners overlook and underutilize vertical spaces in their homes, especially in the garage and craft rooms. Adding floating shelves on the walls increases the available storage space. This provides an extra space to store craft paper rolls, craft boxes, and other supplies without taking up much floor space.

There are many options for using vertical space. For instance, you can add hooks and panel walls for storing ribbons, scissors, rulers, and other items. If your craft is testing and trying out different guns, a wall-mounted magazine holder will come in handy. Vertical storage isn’t limited to the walls only. You can convert the back of your door to extend the available vertical space.

3. Organize Your Supplies

After categorizing your supplies and increasing the available storage space, it is time to organize them. For this, begin by taking stock of the available storage supplies. Ensure that you have everything you need to store your craft items. This includes baskets, shelves, bins, and drawers. You should identify storage solutions that perfectly meet your storage needs.

Clear plastic bins are mostly preferred for their affordability and simple and stackable nature. They are great storage solutions for small items that can easily get lost. Fortunately, you can find storage containers and baskets affordably in thrift stores. On the other hand, pegboards are great for items that can be hung. Drawers and shelves are perfect storage solutions for solid items.

4. Discard What You No Longer Need

Though often emotional, you should discard most, if not all, items that you don’t need in your craft room. This includes extra supplies and remnants from completed projects. Getting rid of non-essential supplies also leaves more storage space for essential items. You can donate what you don’t need to family members, friends, local schools, churches, or self-help centers.

Endnote

If you love craft, regardless of the nature, your craft room is where you get to express your creativity and tackle new projects. Unfortunately, like the garage, keeping the craft room clean and organized is difficult, but it isn’t impossible. While the tips above will help you achieve a clean and organized craft room, you should adhere to various rules to maintain neatness. For instance, you should have a deep-clean day and declutter at least once annually.