When we bought our house, we converted the upstairs bedroom into our office. A few months ago, Jason decided he wanted to pick up drums again and so we were faced with a dilemma of where to put the drums. I didn't want them upstairs in the office because of the noise levels. The office is directly adjacent to our bedroom and not too far from the living room so the noise level would be a little unbearable. We decided that we would create an office space by framing out/drywalling/flooring one corner of our basement. Once that was done, we decided to finish off the 3rd bedroom in the basement by painting the walls and installing carpet. The office space downstairs therefore freed up the upstairs office/bedroom to become my CRAFT ROOM! It's pretty much my dream come true...I've always wanted a place of my own! Over the next month or so, I debated whether or not I wanted to paint the room or just keep it. When we moved into the house, we painted every room. We had chosen a 2 tone green paint scheme for the office (3/4 walls are lighter green and we have the other wall as a darker accent wall). I thought about painting it a tiffany blue color with black and white accents. Before I purchased paint, I decided to make a trip to Joann to look at fabric choices. I didn't find anything I just loved in black and white, but I did fall completely in love with this pink and green fabric. That pretty much made up my mind- I was keeping the green! We had to sink quite a bit of money into Jason's drum room, and I decided that I didn't really want to spend a lot but I still wanted my room to look cute so I decided to sew my own curtains (hasn't happened yet), and make my own artwork. I made 4 pieces of art.
First, I purchased wooden craft letters to spell out "CREATE." I painted the edges of the letters white and then decoupaged different scrapbook papers to the fronts of the letters to give them character. To finish off the effect, I decoupaged 3D scrapbooking stickers to the front of each letter. Here is a picture of the letters right after I finished them:
I loved the way my letters turned out, so I decided to make a few more things. Next, I picked up 6 (10 x 10) artist canvases for sale at Joann. I found 3 coordinating pink/green/white fabric prints and purchased 1 yard of each. I stapled the fabric to the canvases using my husband's electric staple gun and voila! I love the way these turned out, and I think they look wonderful against the bright green walls in the craft room. Here is a picture right after finishing:
The 3rd piece really came about by chance. I was in the scrapbooking aisle at Joann (of course!) and I saw these stickers that I just had to have. I don't scrapbook because I know I will get way too caught up in it and spend a fortune, so I knew if I purchased the stickers that I would have to do something cute with them. I went into the canvas aisle and found 3 x 3 canvases. I picked up 16 of them and decoupaged on the scrapbooking stickers. Below is a picture right after I finished the canvases. Before hanging on the wall, I added pink and white polka dot ribbon between the vertical canvases to reduce the number of nail holes my husband would have to put in the wall :)
The last thing I made isn't really an art piece as it is a functional piece. I wanted something that I could hang on the wall to put my paintbrushes, scissors, etc. in. I thought, "how cute would it be to use wooden clogs?" I picked up a cute little pair of handmade wooden Holland clogs from Etsy. They already had little holes in them, so I threaded a cute ribbon through the holes and hung them on the wall. I love the way it turned out!
Here is one corner of my room, all put together...I'll post more on the details a little later!
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