Craft Room in Progress

My beloved craft room is going to be a shared space now. Not that I didn't share it before -- everyone was always welcome! (Seriously, come do crafts with me!) But now it's going to function as another guest room since we will need the second guest room to become a nursery. 

Freshly painted and with everything shoved against the walls -- it's practically clean!

That was the plan all along, we just knew it would take some creative rearranging to make the space functional as both a bedroom and a craft room. So, in order to get a feel for the available space and where the various pieces of furniture would fit best, I measured the room and drew the layout to scale on some graph paper. Then I cut out to-scale shapes to correspond to each of the pieces of furniture that we would need to accommodate in that room. 

This way we were able to get a good feel for how the furniture layout would work. 

So professional and technical -- like everything we do. 

Richard wanted to go ahead and paint the walls while we were already going to be rearranging all of the furniture. So I picked one of the fourteen choices from the dining room, and we went with Behr Sage Tint. He painted the whole room in an afternoon, and I absolutely love it. There's so much light in that room, and that pale green just looks so good. 

Pre-paint and with lots of baby stuff spread out around the room -- we had to test out assembling the pack n play. 

Everything crammed into the middle of the room in preparation for painting

With the new, subtle paint color that I love!

So with freshly painted walls, Richard moved the guest room furniture to the craft room and set it up in two functional spaces. 

Oh yeah, and the finished window seats!

We have the bed in one area with plans to add a dresser that will double as a bedside table. And the rest of the room has the craft shelves and the futon still in usable areas. We also chose a spot for the TV that would be viewable both from the bed and futon which was a tiny bit tricky since the bed and futon are on opposite walls. Lastly, we have a space against the wall that leads into the hallway that will be my office area when we get around to it. 

There are still quite a few things to move around and get settled, but it's definitely on it's way to being a fully functional guest room AND craft room!