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I got this letter from Ashli:

I wanted to share our recent renovation with you. I started a blog www.maillardvillemanor.com

We had a very ugly powder room, about 3 steps from our dinning room ewwww. . .
what we needed was a computer and craft room.

We took out the pedestal sink and toilet. My husband capped off the plumbing, we didn’t want to remove it, for resale purposes, and we installed some ikea kitchen cabinetry.

The bottom corner piece is an ikea upper cabinet. The other lower cabinets are scrapbook storage boxes from Michaels Craft Store.

The counter top is a wood one from ikea. We cut it to size using a table saw and a jig saw. The upper cabinets are ikea uppers and in between them we use simple ikea shelves and baskets bought from ikea also.

We installed some key hooks to keep our spare keys organized.

Are you as excited to see it as I am? Here it is!

BEFORE

AFTER

Ashli -holy cow! You guys did a fantastic job! What an awesome office/craft area and I love that you didn’t permanently remove the possible back-to-the original bathroom function for the future. Genius. I love how organized and pretty everything is! You have an awesome space to get creative with everything you need in it’s place and at your fingertips. Thank you so much for sharing!

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Scrapbookers – you’ll love this transformation. Crafters too. Bonnie from Life’s Little Details transformed a guest bedroom into a fun, organized scrapbooking/craft room. It’s beautiful!

Here is her post:

Scrapbooking Room

When we moved into our 4 bedroom house several years ago we quickly realized that the spare bedroom became a dumping ground for lots of miscellaneous items. To me is seemed like wasted space. Only one time in 3 years did someone spend the night and use it as a spare bedroom. So my bright idea was to make it into a scrapbooking room for me and the girls. As always Sean was a little skeptical of my idea. So September 2009 we got to work.

Here is BEFORE:

The walls were a Navy Blue. The room is small to begin with and the dark walls definitely made it seem smaller. There isn’t a closet because the previous owner closed it off and opened the wall in the other bedroom to make a closet.
So after several layers of primer and a few layers of much brighter paint, here is the new room:

Of course I had lots of scrapbooking supplies and arts and craft supplies to fill the room.

When my scrapbooking stuff was in the basement I already had the drawer cabinets. Sean made a countertop to put on top and extended it around the wall so the girls had their own work space. We added wall cabinets and shelves. Now everything has a place.

The girls love the room and all the fun stuff they have to use to create. I love that we can all be in the room at the same time and all have our own space.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE my room. I love that I can find everything and it is all organized. The room gets quite messy sometimes
but that is ok….proof we are enjoying and creating in our wonderful space.