Behind the scenes at Lift Bridge Cards and Crafts

In our home, we've had two years in a row with major home renovations, and we're about to make it three in a row.  Two years ago, we landscaped our yard. This made us see how dated our kitchen was, so last year we had the kitchen done. We had plans to fit my book press in a kitchen cabinet. When that didn't fit, we decided to renovate the office (aka, my studio!) and our laundry room.

So, over the next few months, I will share with you where we started, how the project is going, and where we end up. Along the way, I will share some organizational tips.

As you walk into the studio, you will see a bookshelf, desk, cabinet with stamps, and a wall cabinet with ink pads.

On the opposite side, I have a large cabinet on the left. My husband had that made for my 30th birthday, and the drawers on the right are perfectly sized for 12x12 paper. There are shelves above that hold supplies and my scrapbooks.  My desk is right next to the window. It is a large drafting table, and has items stored below, on top, and on the side.

Here is a better view of my desk.  I have paper trays at the back that have trays to hold inks and other supplies. My letter trays and desktop station are from Likeit.

Opposite the window is a closet.  We have a lateral filing cabinet in here and have filled the closet with adjustable shelves. Behind my door, I have a punch pal which is filled with paper punches.

I love that this room has the best light all day since it's south facing and it now looks out over our new deck from our landscaping project. 

What I don't love about this room is how we've just cobbled things together over the year.  Each piece of furniture was bought at a different time to solve a current need. The closet is also full of space, but because of how it's framed in, we lose about 2 feet of vertical storage there. The whole room is also too full of stuff.

Our idea for moving forward is to replace all of the individual cabinet pieces with built in cabinets and remove the closet. In the picture below, the bookshelf is going to be in the same place as the current bookshelf. The short piece of the "L" will fit in the former closet location.

In the coming weeks, I will show you the progress I've made and the construction as it goes along!