5 tips to organize your craft room
Whether you have a coveted studio devoted to your craft or a roll-around cart you haul to the dining room table, or anything in between—personalized organization is KEY to unlocking your creativity.
Clutter is a major barrier to tapping in to your focus, imagination, and mental energy.
I work with a lot of artists, crafters, DIYers etc who want to create but feel blocked by the mess.
Here’s 5 quick tips…and an invitation to a workshop on decluttering and organizing your craft room (below):
Clearly define the purpose of this space and let yourself imagine what your dream craft room looks like. Without clarifying your exact goals, it’s hard to make choices that move you closer to what you want
Less is best. Excess is just noise. Excess is mental load, it’s decision fatigue, it’s distraction from the task at hand. It’s time to take inventory and do a serious purge.
Consider your priority tools and medium(s). Let’s say your number one is sewing. You’ll want to give anything related to sewing a PRIME placement. You’ll make this the main zone of the craft space. Other categories—paper crafts, crocheting, calligraphy, etc—are given positions of lesser value.
Use containers to differentiate boundaries, and use the container as the limit. Disorganization happens quickly when our bin of paints starts overflowing and getting mixed in with the stamping materials because we ran out of space.
Let go of shame/guilt for holding onto materials you aspired to use but never did. Focus on what you actually use. It’s OK if you collected anll the cute things and had the best intentions but never actually scrapbooked your pregnancy and baby’s first years. Got inspired to make fall-related crafts with beautifully colorful leaves you collected 4 years ago but never did? Move on. Almost everything is replaceable. Make space for what you love and actually do.
I invite you to contact me with any questions relating to your creative spaces.
