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Designing a Craft Room: Using Cabinetry and Storage Devices to Make Supplies Easily Accessible

Have you thought about designing a craft room in your home this fall as a place to do some of your sideline artistic projects? Many of us have a dream of creating a room where we can go off and be by ourselves to be creative. Why not make it a reality while brainstorming for ideas on how to make it organized?

When designing a craft room, having everything organized to suit your own work style requires you working closely with the designer and builder. We can do that for you here at Edgewood Cabinetry LLC where specialized projects are our specialty. With our ability to create superior cabinetry and shelf space, we can help you design your craft room so everything is within easy reach.

Designing Your Work Table

What surface you use to do most of your creative work should be your first focus. While it can be a regular desk, we can design something that integrates storage and cabinet space so you can have easy accessibility to supplies. We know that when we work on our creative cabinetry projects, we don’t want to have to walk clear across the room to find a tool or other item. When you’re engrossed in a creative project, you should have all the tools you need within easy reach.

Utilizing special cabinetry or shelving at the front of your desk, you can reach for creative materials without even having to leave your chair. This can include enclosed storage drawers within your work table so you don’t have to have all your supplies sitting out in the open.

Nearby Shelving for Storage or Hanging Supplies

A craft room should have other storage units around the room so you can find other supplies you may need later. These can be open display shelves to grab items in a hurry. It can also mean shelves that let you hang things like ribbon spools or perhaps rolls of paper. Having convenient places to hang supplies for easy accessibility will help you stay focused on your project without getting distracted hunting down for something you misplaced.

Stylized Storage Devices

We can customize any type of cabinetry or shelving you have in mind. You might have to get creative in order to store certain items so they aren’t scattered around your work table. We can create ample space for you to place storage boxes full of art supplies. Or, we can build customized storage devices that help you store small items that might easily get lost without full organization.

Even wall niches can come in handy to place certain items. These can also be a place to display some of your creative works of art for visitors to see later.

Our design will help you get so organized that you won’t have to worry about being embarrassed bringing people in. While many people might expect a craft room to look messy with supplies everywhere, they’ll be surprised when they see how organized you are with attractive cabinetry and shelving besides.

Contact us here at Edgewood Cabinetry so we can start working with you this fall on designing a craft room you’ve always dreamed of having. It’s time to do something good for yourself and create a room that helps you focus on creative time to escape the mad world outside your doors and walls.

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Walk-In Closet and Storage Ideas to Keep Your Clothes and Accessories Better Organized

Have you thought about creating a walk-in closet in your bedroom or other part of the house lately?

While you might think walk-in closets are common, not everyone has one. Perhaps you think you don’t have room for such a thing, even though it doesn’t have to be exclusively in a bedroom closet. The good news for you is that you don’t need a lot of room to make an excellent walk-in closet full of storage space to get you better organized.

Here at Edgewood Cabinetry, we’re experts in creating shelving and other storage devices in places that don’t have to be roomy. It doesn’t take a lot of wide-open space to create decent storage in a walk-in closet. It doesn’t matter if you convert an entire room into a walk-in closet or even a former tiny bathroom.

What kind of storage ideas can we design for you in a closet created for ease of use?

Different Forms of Shelving

We can create any type of shelving you need in a walk-in closet, including angled shelves for placing shoes. There isn’t anything better than walking into a closet and being able to see your entire shoe collection or other common items on one shelf so you can grab them instantly. This eliminates the need to have to use hangers for everything in a cramped closet.

Wood varieties are extensive when it comes to shelving, and we can use different types of finishes to bring a color that matches the surroundings. Regardless, shelves can be painted any color you want, giving a chance to add true style and aesthetic value if you regularly take visitors into your walk-in closet.

Pull-Out Storage Units

Sometimes you don’t want everything out in the open in a walk-in-closet. After all, you don’t want overly personal items sitting there for display if you have guests over on a regular basis. Pull-out storage units can be made with the illusion of not looking obstructive, yet can be made with deep storage space inside to hold dozens of small items.

We build these type of storage units regularly for not only walk-in closets, but also bathrooms and bedrooms. They can be constructed so when you open them, they open quietly to eliminate them sounding like opening a cave door.

Storage Bins

If you want storage that’s portable, we can even create wooden storage bins to place on your walk-in closet shelves. These can be easily labeled in a way that organizes your clothes like never before. One good idea is using each bin as your seasonal fashion choices. When you need to move those items somewhere else, the bins are light enough where you can easily transport them to another room.

Storage Niches

Wooden niches are becoming a popular choice that we’ve been building for our clients. These can work just as well in a walk-in closet and made in a variety of ways. Not all niches have to be embedded into a wall and can still be made as an open shelving unit. With an enclosed space on the sides, they’re great for storing things like jeans or bed linens.

These are just some of the storage ideas you can implement into a walk-in closet using our cabinetry designs. Contact us here at Edgewood Cabinetry so we can work with you on designing what you truly want in your walk-in closet and finally bring some organization to your life. And we can accommodate other storage units throughout your home with the beautiful look of real wood.

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Creating a Wall Niche: Rooms You Can Use Them in and Things You Can Store

A niche placed into a wall is one of the greatest compromises in helping fill blank wall space while also providing a unique way to store things.

It’s basically a hybrid of a cabinet and shelf that’s installed directly into a wall so you don’t have to worry about obstructions. Here at Edgewood Cabinetry, our wall niches are popular, though customers sometimes can’t decide right away where the niche should be placed in their homes.

Take a look at some suggestions on where wall niches usually work the best. And you’ll be amazed at how much space they provide to store things you wouldn’t expect.

Which Rooms Work the Best for Wall Niches?

It really doesn’t matter where you place a wall niche, though common places we build them are in bedrooms, kitchens, and bathrooms. A bedroom is an excellent place because you can store items you want to see regularly without worrying about them being knocked over on a nearby nightstand or dresser. With the ability to place multiple shelving within a niche, you can also have several layers of items on display. Plus, the niches can be made deep enough so they won’t be along a narrow edge.

Along with bedrooms, kitchens are an excellent place to have a wall niche. You can store everything from a small, flat HDTV to kitchen items there without needing to store things in a cupboard. In a kitchen, it can also help fill in for excessive blank wall space that’s been an eyesore for much too long. With easy installation, it’s a perfect location for a niche.

Then again, bathrooms are also an exceptional place to use niches. With so many bathroom items frequently strewn on counter spaces, having a bathroom niche can mean an easy reach for an item without needing to open a single door. It’s what you store on each niche, though, that can say a lot about you when you have guests around.

What Items Should You Store in a Niche?

As you can see above, it doesn’t matter what items you store in a wall niche, just as long as you’re aware that they’ll be seen by guests. That means any bathroom items you store there should be ones that aren’t overly personal, unless you’re open to honesty. As with shelving, however, you can store books in a niche or general nicknacks that you want in a secure place.

Niches can also be installed up higher on a wall so you can be sure kids won’t be able to reach up there and grab something valuable. But they overall pull double duty as a way to display things you’re proud of while also being an alternative storage device.

Contact us here at Edgewood Cabinetry so we can design and build a wall niche that fits your style. With our careful attention to detail, you’ll have a permanent wall niche you’ll love using for decades and made of quality materials.

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