My Mudroom Makeover Reveal: How To Turn A Small Space Into A Dream Craft Room Workspace On A Budget

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If you could add one room to your house, what type of room would it be?

Since moving from our 3,000 square foot suburban home into our much smaller 1920s Bungalow, I’ve asked myself this question over and over again. Each time I am trying to work on a project, I’ve found myself taking over the dining room table. When we purchased our home, I knew that having only one space to work, craft, and eat would be tricky but I didn’t realize just how annoying (and time-consuming) this shared table situation would actually end up being.

Thus far in our bungalow lifestyle, we’ve given our dining room a lot of hats. Realizing we had limited wall space throughout the entire home, we had always planned to have our coveted shoe storage cabinets lined against the back wall in the room. Then, by the end of the Summer, we realized the home was seriously lacking a logical mudroom space, so we created dedicated storage in the corner beside the front door to corral backpacks and jackets.

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Our dining room also serves as my office when I’m working on client designs at home, a project table where I create DIY tutorials for this blog, and a homework station for our young daughter. Oh – and that’s right – the only spot in our home where we can all sit together and have a meal.

So that means that each day, I’m tidying up this space at least twice in order to be able to actually use it for its intended purpose (as a dining room).

Perhaps even more annoying? I still hadn’t figured out a place to store all of my crafting project supplies in our new home. Everything was originally dumped into our detached garage and that’s where it stayed.

So if I were working on painting an original art piece for a client, I would have to walk outside and around the entire house to get to the garage to find supplies. Assuming the project could be completed in under 5 hours, I could then return the supplies to the garage and tidy the table by dinnertime. Most frequently, though, I’d end up with piles of tools by the front door just waiting for me to have the time to complete more complicated projects before they could be returned to the garage.

It was an all-around pain.

Dealing with the hassle of having no dedicated space to store my craft supplies in my home was also a conundrum. The only true storage space we have in our home is either in a dirt floor basement or in our creepy attic. Between dust, cobwebs, and general inaccessibility, both options left much to be desired.

Then inspiration struck while we were at Ikea.