Scrapbook Room Redo!

I don't know why, but I feel compelled to always have a project going. I wish I could be someone who was content with status quo and could sit blissfully reading ignoring all the things to do in my house, but tis not so in my world. I have NOT been happy with my scrapbooking (craft or should I say CRAP) room. I wanted it to be a happy place where creativity would flow into my mind and out through my hands. Not happening! It was a dingy light taupe color. It was a shade of yellow with poop mixed in. It was not pleasant. I get that it was neutral and painted thus to ensure the sale of my house, but I am not moving ANY time soon and I needed to get the funk-shew right.

The other thing that makes a scrapbook room difficult is making sure it is user friendly to other people. I cannot have a room that is just for me. What if we get a GUEST--or like five and we need the use of the room? What if I get mad at Prince Charming and want to sleep somewhere else. I think this is a constant problem with having a craft room. We usually have to share it. When Wichita BF was here she said I should move the bed so I could have two walls devoted to MY area. This was all fine and good, but with my 2 card tables and my HUGE wonky desk this was still going to be a problem. I also have TONS of "STUFF." All of this stuff needs homes. Functioning, organized, homes.

For some stupid reason I didn't take a before picture of all the hodge podge tables I had. I had an 8 ft card table from Sams. A card table in the middle of the room. I had a bed and a 80" desk with two hutch components above it.

I really liked my hot pink curtains, so I kept those and selected everything else to go with them. Funny, huh?

I showed Prince Charming some pictures on Pinterest of what looks awesome, functional and realistic. These three varied to the point of him telling me just design something and he would make it. YEAH, right?!? The boy decided to put it in CATIA--his 3 dimensional Engineering software and model it so I could visually see what we were going to do.

1. Make 3 trips to Micheals, 2 trips to K-Mart, 4 trips to Wal-Mart, 1 trip to Ross, 1 trip to Gordmans, 1 trip to Old Pottery Barn and one trip to Home Depot.
2. Purchase shelving to make a desk--one that has bookcases and storage components.
3. Spend time returning stuff that isn't going to work or was not the right height. (Do you know how many shelves there are and they ALL vary around 1-2"???? I felt like a complete dork when I drug my tape measure from my purse and was measuring random shelves. OMG. I am turning into my mother....)
4. Paint old Hutch to be a nice shade of gray with the interior being yellow.
4.5 Paint room. Make 3 trips to Sherwin Williams to discover the PAINT anniversary sale was coming up and all paint would be 35% off---can we say kitchen???
4.75 Pick the color Innocence from Benjamin Moore paint because it is what Pinterest says goes best with my hot pink curtains. Emma from Sherwin Williams matched it for me and was ever so patient when I ran out of my gallon of paint and had to match a quart of pint the next day---I ended up getting her mess up can for $.50. WOOT. I have a feeling there will be something else painted in my near future....
5. Take everything down and move it into Obe Wan's room. (He refused to vacuum because ALL of my stuff was in his room. Brat.)
6. Bring beers to Prince Charming to keep him focused and driven.
7. Use MainStays Shelf units, a shelf unit from Recollections scrapbooking storage (used 40% off coupon) and two sheets of 5/8 particle board from Home Depot to create a 30" wide desk on one wall and a 18" wide desk on another wall.

It turned out amazing with TONS of storage. The overall cost was under $200. Happy Birthday!

Absolutely loved this picture at Kirklands!
"The Beach is Calling
And I must Go...."