Many people who work at home on their own projects do not count with enough room in their studios to make their creations.

Many people who work at home on their own projects do not count with enough room in their studios to make their creations. Some examples of these people are: tailors, people who like to make scrapbooks, plastic artists, architects and others. Here, we’ll share some tips for you to create your own space out of a long well-designed, well-distributed craftwork table made out of the right materials and with the right functionality.

You can use a corner in the house and analyze the necessary storage and working space you need. Then, figure out how much of the material you can keep, and think carefully which things are not necessary so you can dispose or store them in a less accessible place.

Among the ideal materials for storage we have the melamine and wooden furniture. Also, a big and long wooden top, besides being durable, adds style to furniture. On the other hand, it is important to be careful with the top. If you’re planning to use the surface to cut materials constantly, you should place a cutting top so you don’t damage the wooden top. In fact, sometimes the working materials stain a lot. To avoid this, you can use an easy-to-clean material such as stainless steel, Formica or just the plain wooden top varnished.

It is important to count with plenty of illumination: lightbulbs, fluorescent lights or LED day-light type lights. In the same fashion, it would be ideal to count with natural lightning or to have a lamp next to your main working area.

These spaces should be designed to meet the needs of each person. You should not order standard sizes because they may not fit your working space in height, or you might end up with more drawers than you needed. You could also need a visible area that you did not count with at the beginning.

Choosing a large and cornered piece of furniture for the design is very comfortable, as well as practical. One side of this piece of furniture must be as empty as possible so you can work with large materials. You can place all of the tools (or anything you need to work) on the other side of the piece of furniture, as well as on shelves on the wall. In the lower part of the desk you can place furniture with doors or drawers to store products that you need to keep locked or to protect from dust or other hazards. File cabinets are really comfortable because they are hard, they have a lock and long cabinets that can bear a considerable weight. However, if you do not count with a big budget, plastic filing cabinets will do the trick just as well.

White is a wildly used color for working areas. This is because, people count with more clarity to distinguish between the colors they are working with. Also, the working space would look more illuminated and cleaner. Besides white, you could also use neutral colors such as, light wood color, light tones against a wall with a color that draws the attention. It is vital to keep these spaces organized, obviously the space will get a little messy when working, but what I mean by organized is to have a specific place for everything and store it there when you finish. Preferably, label materials to find them more easily. Organize the objects by category, such as theme, material, color, etc.

You could even use large baskets to divide the products, recycled containers of glass, large cardboard cylinders of toilet paper to roll some materials, flower pots, put on some strings with clippers to hang keepsakes or photographs with ideas there.

Another good idea is to get a suitcase or cosmetic case, or medium/large size toolbox and to use it to keep the materials organized. This idea is very useful because you can place everything you use daily and transport it if you need to work somewhere else.

Shelves don’t have to be necessarily expensive, you can get a wooden flooring in good shape, sand it place it vertically against the wall, put some screws and hooks in to place some tools in our work table.

Written by Fiorella Allain
Interior Space Designer