FINALLY! A craft room tour, my craft room is finished!

Good morning!  Wanted to share a little tour of my newly completed craft room.  In a previous post, I shared some of the construction photos, etc.  Well, it is finally complete.  

I love this space and really is my happy place.  I love that I can go down to my craft room to get away and be creative, which is what I love to do.  

Let me know what you think.  You can find my video here on my YouTube channel Craft Room Tour

I found the chair on Amazon Craft room chair, my cabinet where my cricuts are stored can be found Home Decorators cabinet.  Although the description of the Home Decorators cabinet shows it as Polar White, it really is almost a lite beige, not really white. 

Hope you like it and find some craft room inspiration from my video! 

Specialty floor in our garage

 Hello Friends,

Today I wanted to share some pictures from our recent 3rd car garage floor improvement.  My husband has some content coming up soon on his new YouTube channel.  I wasn't sure if I really wanted a treated floor in our garage, but I knew it was important to him.  One was cost, two was, is this going to even last?  Especially when I saw the flakes that were thrown down, etc. 

I really like the look and I think long term the durability will be fantastic. 

Have you ever done a treatment like this on your garage floor or anywhere else (i.e., craft room)?

What's up with the wine room?

 In a prior post I mentioned we wanted to turn one of the "rooms" in our basement in to a wine room.  Right now the only work we have done in that area is dry wall.  The wine room will be a "work in progress", but right now our attention is on my husband's gun room and office and my craftroom.  

I watched a recent episode of "Brother vs. Brother" on HGTV (don't you just love them!) and was so inspired by a barrel ceiling that Jonathan did in his makeover home.  I really want to do something like this in our wine room.  I'm really looking to achieve a very vintage, old world looking wine room.  We did buy a wood door with a glass pane in it, which I would love to etch our last name initial on it.  

I was looking at various websites for brick veneer and found this one Zenbuild.com

This are two of my inspiration pics from Houzz.com in my Ideabook.  

I think this one is a good mix of aged looking brick.  This is the part where you're dreaming and planning and I really enjoy this process. 

This is the entrance to our future wine room.  I want to put an arch just before this hallway entering it.  

Update on my craft room

Hello Friends,

Well my craft room is coming along.  I have been having a lot of fun perusing inspiring pics on Houzz.com; I love that website!  I showed my inspiration pic in my last blog post.  I decided to go with Sherwin Williams Begonia.  I just love it.  

I recently ordered my sconces. I didn't go with the black and gold ones that were in my previous post, but went with all brass.  I bought these from Amazon.com.  I think they'll add just that right touch I was looking for.  

Next is finishing out the long wall where the sconces will go with an accent paint, I am thinking Sherwin Williams Hopeful, installing the sconces and moulding.  I have been going back and forth on flooring, but I think that will be the next big purchase for our basement renovation.  

I would love any feedback.  I'd love to see your craft room also, if you have one!  

Thanks for visiting.  

Craft Room Update

 Things are coming along in my craft room and renovation of half of our basement.  I'm really excited to get painting and organizing all my craft materials.  I love the inspiration colors I've chosen, but not committed yet, I may "tweak" the colors a little.   I also included an inspiration pic I have really loved for a few years now - I love the teal ceiling and the moulding.  I most likely will not do the moulding, but you never know.

Let me know of any recommendations you may have for organizing and thoughts on painting a ceiling the darker color. 

Below is my "board" for materials I may use in my craftroom.  

CRAFT ROOM UPDATE

We are finally getting around to finishing our basement.  The exciting part is, is that I get a craft room space of my own!  

I'll keep posting pics of the progress.  Drywall started going up today, so expect pics tomorrow.  

Wine room entrance

Entry to my craft room

utility room

entrance to my husband's office are and gun room

We're going to Italy!

My husband and I booked a trip last year to Italy, specifically Umbria.  We are getting so excited, as the day for departure nears.

I cannot wait to share our pictures of architecture, food, the people and beautiful countryside!

Stay tuned.

Spring has sprung

Spring has sprung!  The spring fever bug has hit.  I was getting a little tired of the winter decor and yesterday there was such gorgeous weather that it inspired me to change my decor.

Yesterday was gorgeous!  I sat outside and enjoyed the beautiful sunshine and unusually mild weather for here in the Northeast.  

I'm on the hunt today for some forsythia.  I think a trip to our local Michaels is in order. 

Have a blessed day all.

To Welcome Baby Boy

I found an adorable tray with some baby hangers inside.  My daughter is expecting a baby boy in January and I immediately knew I wanted to embellish it to make it a sweet organizer for this new precious life.  It already had a great design with the baby blue color and white pocodots.

I used some flower embellishments and my stash of rubber stamps and paper to create tags and a bookmark.  Beautiful white silk ribbon holds the "B" for Boy.   I used a cricuit cutter to cut out my tags.  I used Tim Holtz ink and lightly sponged around the edges of the tags and bookmark.  Add a little sparkle with Stickles.  I used an alphabet set to stamp the letter "B".

I just love the way it turned out.  Don't be afraid or turn away from an initially plain item, think outside the box; almost anything can be embellished!

Decorating has begun

I really have enjoyed decorating our new home.  We had a lot of good holiday items that we used at our old home, but adding some new items was a lot of fun.  There are different niches and architectural element to decorate, making it a fun, creative process.  I love being creative and love decorating for the holidays.  This year we are really looking forward to sharing the holidays with our family and friends in our new home.

Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year everyone!

I purchased these beautiful plates, made in Italy, from a bloggers auction a few years back.  I love the detail and texture of them.  I can layer them with any of my dishes and they look fabulous.

I purchased this beautiful candle holder set and tree from a wonderful little shop nearby.

 

My mother painted the beautiful candle holders with the 14K gold band.
Love these candle holders and love that she painted them herself.

Snowflake tea lite holder from HomeGoods

Deer runner from Pier 1

Deer pillow from Allen and Roth