Our spare bedroom/guest room is also my craft room. Or more my storage room for my craft stuff as it is at the back of the house. So I usually just drag what I'm working on out to the dining room or lounge room so I can see what the kids are up to and spend time with my husband. For a room that gets so little traffic and use, it is a big big mess and we have a visitor coming to stay again in a week.

I need your help!

I really need to organise the room so that everything is accessible but stored away neat and tidy for when we have guests. How do you organise your room or area? What do you find works best, and what doesn't? Any ideas or tips are most welcome. Getting the room in some sort of semi order isn't much of a problem...for the short term. But how can I keep it organised?

In the room there is a queen size bed, a computer desk with spare computer on it, a small fold up sewing desk and a built in cupboard. Under the bed is full of confiscated toys, gym equipment not currently being used and other miscellaneous items. In the cupboard is my craft books and magazines, wool stored in a hanging sweater organiser and a storage box, photo albums, board games other craft items. The cupboard is also used for some of our manchester as we don't have a linen closet. The computer desk spare room on it when I clear the rest of the craft stuff off it and underneath is completely filled with craft supplies. The small sewing desk is pretty much empty except for the drawers which are filled with material, buttons, patterns and other sewing paraphernalia.

If you have any imagination, which if you are reading my little blog I'd say you do, you can  tell the room is pretty packed. Oh and on top of the bed hasn't missed the storage treatment either (YIKES!!!). It has a huge pile of confiscated toys on it too. Hmmm...I notice a recurring theme here. The toys really need to find a new (or old) home.

On further contemplation, I have my first mission for the Craft come Guest room.

Mission 1.

Sort out kids toys into four groups

  1. Bin
  2. Give away
  3. Store away
  4. Give back

Mission 2.

Find a new place to store the toys that haven't been earnt back yet.

Mission 3.

Sort out craft stash


I better leave it at that for now until I get the first three missions completed.