My New Stamping Studio!

October 30, 2010

My New Stamping Studio!

I am so excited to show my amazing studio to you!

But first I'll show you where I have been holding classes for the past 5 years.

This is my living room last year at Christmas. I had two 6' tables down the center & that is where I had my classes.

This is our old family room. Beyond those sliding glass doors on the top left was a sunroom. It was a nice room with windows on all sides, but it wasn't insulated so we rarely used it except in the summertime. So my husband tore down the wall in between these two rooms for my new dream room/Stamping Studio.

Ready??!!

What do you think? Can you believe my husband did about 99% of all the work here?! Yup - I'm a very, very lucky gal.

I love the apple green color! We painted one big wall this color to contrast with the white cabinets. Here's some details:

These sturdy wood tables were from a restaurant auction. All of the white cabinets in the room are from IKEA. See the tall set of black plastic drawers on the right? It's only there temporarily as I decided I needed one more white dresser in that spot & some awesome friends will pick one up for me in Minneapolis next weekend.

The floor is laminate - love it!!!

The back right 'desk' is a Big Shot station.

This is the other side view. The back left desk is my embossing station.

The size of this room is 15' X 31'. I am soooo pleased with the lighting - we have 4 big florescent lights on the ceiling & at PMS night last evening we all agreed it was plenty bright enough. No more table top lights that are hard to see under.

See that tall white cabinet by the french doors? That is a shoe cabinet we found at IKEA! And guess what it's perfect for?

My 12 X 12" paper fits like it was made just for it! You can get two stacks of them side by side in it since it's about 30" wide. Even the craft keepers fit. Plus it has a divider to fit even more paper above it. I love the way the doors hinge open. And it's only about a foot deep.

This is my display wall. You can see the shoe cabinet aka 12 X 12 paper storage cabinet better here too. Here's another view of the display wall:

Under the bulletin board will be where I store my bags of SU orders. It will never look that neat again since I usually have quite a few!

And here is the last corner - my work area. We are missing one wood cabinet on the right that sits on the counter top. The one we received was cracked so Lowe's is sending a replacement. Here's the details on this space:

The punches are on towel bars from IKEA. Love those!

The tall wood cabinet to the right of the punches is my file cabinet where I store my card stock.

I can swivel my chair from my stamping area on the left corner to my computer on the other side. I hope I can still get some stamping done - I can get pretty engrosed in blog hopping & browing Stampin' Connection!

I have more details to show you on Monday!

But now I can share my 10 Christmas Cards FREE pdf with you. I'll do that in the next post.

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Comments

What a beautiful room for stamping!!! I'm so sad for you, that it's under water....(my friend Kathy Boyd Zito sent me your site link on facebook, and incidentally, I live in Williston!)

Posted by: Stephanie | June 29, 2011 at 11:09 PM

Love your space!! Never would have thought of using the shoe storage for paper!! How is that working for you? Still pleased with it?

Posted by: Suzanne | June 19, 2011 at 12:20 AM

wow & wow! your studio is amazing LeAnn ~ happy stampin' so nice to have a place for everything! Enjoy!

Posted by: Denise Willerton | January 29, 2011 at 03:10 PM

In a word -- WOW!

Posted by: Trish | January 27, 2011 at 07:27 AM

LOVE your stamp space!! I,too, love apple green and even though I can't paint my walls, I have green chairs, lamps, and any other green storage I can find! I found you on Crafty Storage and will definitely stop back!

Posted by: Dawn | January 25, 2011 at 10:06 PM

Found you from the crafty storage blog. What an awesome room. Looks like you can have some fun in there with some friends scrappin......

Posted by: cherrie | January 25, 2011 at 12:23 AM

I found you on Crafty Storage. You are one lucky stamping diva. Great idea for the Ikea shoe cabinets.

Posted by: Bev | January 24, 2011 at 06:14 PM

Hi,
I found your blog on the Crafty Storage blog......
Your room is just amazing. And so is your husband. Can we swapp husbands for a while LOL
Just kidding, I'm glad with mine.
But he just did a great job.
Love the colour green ( I have the same colour in my tiny craft space )
And what a great idea to use the shoe cabinet for paper. Best idea ever!!!!
Thanks for sharing this craft romm from HEAVEN!!!!
Sinikka

Posted by: Sinikka | January 24, 2011 at 01:14 PM

What a beautiful space. I love IKEA for storage ideas but would never have thought of the shoe cabinets.

Posted by: Chelle K | January 24, 2011 at 09:49 AM

Wow this is a dream stamp studio!! Your husband is a keeper!! I'm totally in love with the shoe cabinet/paper storage! Thank you so much for sharing.

Posted by: Makiko Jones | January 24, 2011 at 09:28 AM