Crafty Quackery: I’m having visions…

No sillys. Not those kinds of visions. My visions are of my imaginary craft room. See, the bf is trying to find a house to buy and at the beginning I was very much involved in voicing my opinions of things. Well over the past year and a half I have decided that all I really care about is having a room of my very own. He wants a very particular set up house (open kitchen/living room concept, largish bedrooms, a large yard, and a pool) so I know that whatever we end up getting will (eventually) be really nice.

The problem for me is that all of the ones that he is attracted to are fixer-uppers, and not the just needs a new coat of paint and flooring fixer-uppers. Like the “omg there is absolutely no kitchen in that house” kind of houses. I have seen quite a few with no actual kitchen. But anyway, I am getting off track. He has experience in fixing things and knows that to look for in a house much more than me so I have decided that all I care about if whatever house is purchased is a craft room. A room all to myself where I can leave it as messy or as organized messy as I want.

I have learned over the past four months that I needed a creative outlet and the sewing and blogging stuff I have done has done that. I want to keep being able to do those things and I have found that our two bedroom apartment is just not big enough for me and all of my “stuff”. I don’t have the ability to leave my newest projects out on the kitchen table for days until I can finish them because I feel bad the table can’t be used. So I end up not starting projects that would take longer than the time I have so that I don’t take up valuable apt space.

However, even though I do not have the physical room yet I have certainly created one in my mind. It is perfect and has everything I could possibly want and my goal is to make it happen.

I went to MyDeco to make a mood board at the referral of Jen at Always a Project via this post. l created an account and quickly realized that what I really envisioned was just not there. So here is my non-mood board board of my imaginary craft room (many of the images I had pinned on Pinterest).

1. First I want blue walls. I have always loved blue and feel that it is a very calming color.

The big bar at the top is the color I want. The rest are colors from the paint sample.

These are the complimenting colors. The big bar at the top and the small square at the left are of the blue I might want.

I love the Determination but also am liking the It’s a Boy. These are Olympic colors.

2. Once the walls are done I am next looking to wall decals. I found one that I LOVE via Pinterest. It is of a dandelion being blown into the wind.

It reminds me of being a kid and having no cares in the world. I think that it would look great in white over top one of the blue walls. It is from Dali Decals.

3. For flooring I have decided the best would be wood. I think it would be easiest to sweep and get the random threads, fabrics, and other crafty trash that gets created. I also want a dark dark wood that has some character and isn’t completely smooth flat. I realize I sound kinda crazy with that description but it makes sense to me. Some examples to try to portray my thoughts are below pulled from a google search of dark wood floors.

Yay dark wood!

Woo texture!

The first is about the coloring I would want and the second is the texturing I want. Hopefully I can find the perfect thing once I actually can make this happen!

4. I feel the best way to compliment my beautiful blue walls, cute dandelion, and super dark wood floors is all white furniture. I feel like it would look so clean and would work well to inspire me to keep things clean and organized.