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Office & Craft Room Reveal with lots of Craft Room Organization Ideas!

I am beyond excited to reveal my craft room/office to you today! In order for you to understand my excitement you must first understand how much I hated this room when I started out. It was sooo boring, drab and a catch-all room for Malea’s toys and our random stuff. Let me refresh your memory.

Wasn’t it terrible!? Now you probably have an understanding of my hatred for this room. Well, let me show you what it looks like now. Are you ready? Using these chipcards that I got from Sherwin-Williams’ Chip It! tool, this is how it turned out!

I honestly can’t even believe it’s the same room. I love how refreshing, bright, colorful and inspiring this room is now! Now I actually want to spend time here, instead of just wanting to close the door and forget about it.

Are you ready for more pictures? I sure hope so because there are a lot of them and I’m dying to show them to you! Here are some of the great accessories and storage solutions in my new space.

I have three favorite things in my new office. Here they are:

#1: My writing space. This desk was one of the original items in this space and I love how it looks so inviting now.

Don’t you just want to sit in that chair and gaze out at the beautiful sunlight? This picture makes me just want to be there, which I honestly thought could never happen in this room!

#2: My new desk, built by my awesome husband. It’s going to be a great workspace for me!

Isn’t she a beauty? I also love these great baskets that I found on Amazon. They are perfect for storing my sewing projects, etc.

I’m also very proud of my staining job. I’m so glad I took the staining class at Haven because I learned so much! Just look at my desk shine. Ahhh, I love it!

#3: My DIY message board.

I got the idea for this on Pinterest (of course) but was thrilled with how well it turned out. I still can’t believe I built it!

Those are my three most favorite things but there are still so many other things I love about the room! I love that I have tons of storage! I have my vinyl hanging on the wall using this fabulous tip from Kim at A Real-Life Housewife. I also have my ribbon, beads and scissors stored in these inexpensive racks from IKEA. And of course the awesome baskets from Amazon.

 

I also love this crate that I painted and use for storing my fabric scraps.

This shelf was a huge score at IKEA. I found it in the “As-Is” room for a fraction of the regular cost! I now have tons of storage and even a couple empty boxes! It also makes a great place for storing my books and my NeatDesk.

A few more simple storage solutions from IKEA: inexpensive glass canisters, shelves and spice jars for my buttons.

This was another big score from IKEA! This multiple-drawer organizer was missing two drawers, so I got it for a fraction of the normal price. When I got it home I just rearranged the drawers so that I could store taller things on the top shelf. I actually like my version better than the original! I used my Silhouette to label the drawers for easy access to my supplies.

I also added a few hooks on the wall for hanging my bags because I hate it when I have bags lying all over the ground. I found the hooks at World Market for only $1.99 each!

The hooks are hung right under the painting that was the inspiration for this whole project. I think it looks beautiful against the Sherwin-Williams Opera Glass-colored wall.

The next challenge I had was hiding the huge black futon we have for guests. It was a real eyesore and needed to be covered. All I did to hide it was cover it with the quilt I have for it and then covered that with cute pillows from TJ Maxx and World Market.

I think it looks inviting now that it’s not a huge black blob in the room!

I had these cute frames left over from when I made over our guest bathroom, but I couldn’t figure out what to put in them. Monique (my awesome assistant) had the fun idea of putting all the “faces” of Ask Anna in them. Here’s the question, how many of you remember this one? Were you a follower way back then?

And of course my current branding image, which I love.

That’s it for the tour! Now it’s your turn to get “chipping!” Have you checked out the Chip It! video and added the Chip It! button to your Bookmarks? If you haven’t, now is the time! There’s a whole world of colors out there just waiting to be chipped by you!

Drag and drop this Chip It! button to your toolbar and get chipping!

Chip It!

{Giveaway is OVER} Tell me about a room in your home that you’d like to make over using the Chip It! Tool and be entered to win a $1,000 Visa gift card and $200 Sherwin-Williams gift card.

And if you’re looking for me, you can find me sitting here dreaming about all the other rooms I can make over in my house using the Chip It! tool (just don’t tell my husband!).

 Side note: Here are the names of the fonts from the Silhouette I used to label the multiple drawer organizer. In case you were wondering 😉

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Comments

  1. Your craft room looks so nice and inviting. I’m still working on mine – instead of doing any actual crafting! I would love to redo my dining/living room combo. Thanks for the chance to win.

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  2. I would love to remake our bedroom! For the first time in our marriage we have a bedroom that’s quite large and we don’t have as much to fill the space as I’d like.

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  5. Anna the room looks amazing! Really inspiring and totally you! Great job! I’d love to use the Chip it tool to redo my whole house 🙂 but if I have to pick one room I’ll pick our master bedroom.

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  6. Wow. It’s beautiful, Anna! I don’t think I’d ever want to leave 🙂 I would use to the Chip It tool for the kitchen/dining room area in our house. My mom has hated it for years, and I know she would love a little makeover!

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  9. the room looks great! actually the before wasn’t so horrible to me, but it definitely was an upgrade! congrats!

    i would love to redo our bedroom!

    thanks for the chance to win!

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  11. I would love to use the chip it button and make over our craft/office room. We have a futon for guests in our too. I also needs lots of organization for a small space with multiple functions.

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    • Nothing beats having a space you love! Great job on your re-do and thanks for the chance to score for MY space 🙂

      ps – I have used chip it for color combos and I love it!

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  12. Oh my gosh!! I LOVE your new craft room! I am so in love with it I didn’t even notice this was a giveaway until I went to leave a comment!!

    I TOO, have a craft room that Chip It would DEFINITELY help me with that!

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  13. I love your new space! I began but never quite completed my office/craft room. I recently acquired a chair from my childhood bedroom that I want to use as my inspiration piece for the room. Now just to find the time!

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    • That’s awesome! I love it when you find something that inspires you. Good luck finding time. 🙂

      Anna

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  15. Wow what a wonderful job Anna – as always, you amaze me. I would love to redo my sewing/craft room – it need some tender loving care!

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  16. Your craft room turned out great! I am hoping to redo our bedroom sometime in the near future and look forward to finding some pictures to use chip it for color inspiration.

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  19. Love the new office look. That’s the room I would choose to redo also. I have pieces and parts in here, and the Chip It tool could be used to bring it all together.

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  22. You did an excellent job getting your wants into the room. Love how you takes your ideas and make them a reality. I would love to have a great craft room in my house!

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  24. Loving the Chip It-that’s so cool! I totally need to redo my “art” room. Similar to the room you did, I have a complete mish mosh of paint n projects that need organization and a pretty place to live!!!

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  25. I would love to redo my bedroom. Best laid plans of mice and men…..I moved back in with my parents while redoing their old house (1905 farmhouse) they just built this one. Well almost 12 years, my dad dying (54 unexpected) I rent their old house out, and the guest room is now mine along with the flat white paint that came with the house. Thanks for sharing your craft and the chance to win!

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  27. I love the fonts you used to label your drawers. Wish I had a room as big as yours to use as a craft room. Would love to win the Visa card and Sherwin-Williams gift card. I can think of so many ways to update my house with those fantastic cards. I think I would start with my son’s bedroom/my craftroom.

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  29. I’d makeover my living room, but since I live in a studio, I’d also make over my bedroom.

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  30. With baby #3 on the way, and finally a girl:) I would love to make over her room!!! How fun would that be!

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    • Yes, I would love that too! I would make her room fabulous with some extra money to spend!!! 🙂

      Anna

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  31. ive used this on several pics of our house–were in the process of remodeling, so im trying to find coordinating trim colors for the walls! Love Chip It!

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    • Thanks Laura! Yeah, I have to drive 2 1/2 hours to get to our closest IKEA too… lame. Probably saves me money in the long run though. 🙂

      Anna

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  39. Wow! That ‘chip it’ tool will come in handy as we are about to re-do our family room. I’m horrible at combining colors.

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  40. I love what you have done with this! Really gives me some inspiration on the room i am making into a office/guest room! It’s a slow process I am doing as funds allow but looking forward to the completed room! 🙂

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  41. I am in the process of working on a dream board for my craftroom and office. I love the organization in your office/craftroom!

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  42. It would be our bedroom. It’s the only room I don’t have a vision for….how sad….but not for long “chip it!”

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  44. Ooooh. I LOVE your office/craft room My drab living room needs COLOR! I have a small stack of paint cards I’ve spent too many hours debating over and I’m finally leaning towards a few different hues of green but I’m hesitant to take the plunge. Can’t wait to check out Chip it! Thanks for sharing.

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  46. I’d love to re-do our bedroom! My husband has a new role at work – as in, he’ll be working from home and we have a small house with 3 kids – so, we’re going to have to be creative and make half of our bedroom an office;) Should be interesting!

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  48. I was working on my craft room then had to take a week break for our week long Cribbage tournament we host. Now that all the company has gone home… Back to Organizing.. I would love to reorganize our bedroom. It’s got a mixture of Hand me downs would love to make it into some wonderful for my husband and I …. Thank you for the chance to win. I love all your great and helpful ideas.

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  49. I would love to have a make over in our play room. It seems like the toys, books, colors etc just keep growing and I can’t seem to keep up with the mess!! PLEASE HELP!

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  50. Love the colors you picked. Is the corner desk chalk paint or SW? It is nice to see a resurgence of painted furniture and less matched pieces. It offers those of us without a great deal to spend a wide variety of pieces to make over on a budget. Thanks so much for the entertaining ideas and the chance to win.

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    • Thank you Suzanne. 🙂 I bought the desk AS IS from an antique shop but I would bet money that it’s chalk paint. I love it, I think it’s beautiful.

      Anna

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  51. Although I would like to make the extra bedroom into a craft/sewing room, My first room makeover would have to be my kitchen. I have wanted to do the kitchen for a couple years. I have some ideas so would love to use the chip it for my kitchen. Thank you for such a fantastic giveaway.

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  53. Love the colors that you chose Anna. I really like the painting in your room also.. I would love to redecorate my kitchen if I win, I already have my Sherwin Williams colors picked out!

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  54. Anna! It’s absolutely Stunning what you’ve done with that room.! My office space is a corner in the living room and Desperately needs a make over! I finally decided if I am going to seriously work from home I need a real office space, so I’m saving up for a real desk and storage spaces (I have my eye on a set from IKEA). I love your storage ideas (as usual) and the colors are so beautiful and peaceful. I think I’d want to curl up on that couch and take a nap instead of get any work done! Again, great job on the room! It always amazes me what a little new paint can do 🙂

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  55. Your craft room looks great! The room in our house that really needs a makeover is our master bathroom. It has been hideous since we moved into our house 7 years ago, and we still don’t have the money to do much about it. I would love to finally re-do the whole room!

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  56. Your craft room is amazing!! I’d love to redo my back screened in porch. It needs new screen and paint, and just needs to be updated!!!

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  57. My dream is to have a beautiful craft room. The extra room we have is filled with junk! My Hubby calls it the “crap room!” It is so much worse than your before photos. I could make it BEAUTIFUL if I won this contest.

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  58. I love what you’ve done with the space! Especially Tricia’s painting. 🙂
    I just installed chipit in my tool bar and am in love already! I would love to re-do my living room & dining room, as they are connected and haven’t changed hardly at all since we bought our house. They really need some life breathed into them! Thanks for the opportunity to win!

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  61. Your office/craft room looks so serene. There is a place for everything and everything in it’s place – i am striving for this the of organization in my office as well! Thank you for the inspiring photos!

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  62. Love your craft room. Really need to update so many rooms in our house. Probably start with the dining room because a different color could make such a dramatic difference. Thanks for sharing. Love to try the chip,it tool.
    Sarah E

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  63. While I’d like to re-do every room in my house, the kitchen needs it the worst. And then maybe the master bedroom or the basement. Chip-It looks like a cool tool – thanks for pointing it out!

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  65. This is a great chance to learn from your creativy and organize my kitchen and daughters room. We downsized to our cozy house 2 years ago and still need to whip it in to shape. My kitchen is dying for a little tlc as is organizing all of my daughters second grade art projects, school work and toys. We are very tight on space. Hope to win! Also sent out a FB. Love your blog…..

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  66. I posted my message to FB. I would love to win this drawing….We downsized our house 2 years ago and our cozy little house could use some your great design ideas. Its pretty boring and unorganized. No storrage space or extra hiding spaces. To be honest~but your site brings the creative. I would love to change my daughters more to be more fun and to organize her artwork, school work and toys! She is going in to second grade and has lots of art projects. I also wished we had IKEA in KC.

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  68. It would be great to win a makeover for our ‘dining room’ which is actually a toy room/dining room/office/reading room. I am at a loss for creative storage, set-up and flow ideas for this room for our family of five.

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  70. We are getting ready to add on to our house, a part of which will become my craft room. I would use the $1000.00 for organizing all my stuff!

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  71. I would love (and boy does it need it!) to make over our walk out basement level family area. One section is a complete dungeon complete with a solid concrete wall. Yuck!

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  72. I love your relaxing, yet cheery color palette in your room, re-do. The multiple-drawer unit from Ikea is great! I think I would like to re-do one of my daughter’s bedrooms. Thanks!

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  73. I would liek to redo my basement my daughter sorta lives down there I would love to spruse it up for her and the other part of the basement make myself a office/craftroom for myself

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  74. Looks great! We bought a fixer upper and I still need to remake our master bedroom, the den and the playroom. I’ve been loving Chip It and hope to be able to paint soon!

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  75. I would love to make over our master bedroom. We just moved our last child out and in her own room so I am thinking it needs to be made into a private sanctuary for mommy and daddy.

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  76. I have so many rooms that need a little life. We have builders beige throughout the house, but my bedroom is the one that is screaming to be re-invented.

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  77. Okay I am in LOVE with that desk!!! Your hubby made that for you?!!!! So jealous. I love the calming colors you used. I would love to win the sweepstakes of course but my comments are genuine. Is there instructions on how to build your own desk like that anywhere or is his he just tremendously creative?

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  78. It turned out fantastic! I am planning on giving my bedroom a makeover. I am tired of looking at light cherry, so
    i am going to make it gray, black, yellow.

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  79. I am building a new house and plan to use the bonus room area as a craft room, but I really have no clue where to start. I hadnt heard of chip it but I think it will def help me with not only my craft room but every other room in the house too!

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  80. I would love to use Chip-it on my living room … I still haven’t quite figured out exactly what to do with that room … you’d think after a year but nope, no such luck!

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  81. Oh boy….I want to makeover a few rooms in my home! Perhaps my bedroom, my future craft room or my living room? Maybe the kitchen/dining area! Well, I would just love to use Chip It all over the place really! Thanks for this awesome chance to win!!
    Stacey of Embracing Change

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  83. I absolutely LOVE what you did! I really need to do something neat with my daughter’s room. She would be thrilled to have a new room all organized and neat!!

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  84. I would love to makeover all my rooms, but the one that I would do first is my schoolroom. We homeschool and need more shelving and some decorations.

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  85. I love the transformation!! I actually just completed a desk with the very same color and stain this weekend 🙂 I would love to be entered to win the contest and I hope that I have submitted this correctly.

    The space that I would like to redo is my garage. Yes that might sound silly but I have several reasons. I am a single mother and up to now I have been renting a small 2 bedroom apartment and trying to do furniture makeovers and crafting in my small kitchen. I was lucky enough to find a 3 bedroom house with a full 2 car garage/workshop that I will be moving into in September. The space will be used as my craft room and right now it is just one big empty garage with unpainted drywall. The garage has a huge rec room above it that will be used as the kids play room so Mommy can work on projects while the kids play upstairs. The small projects that I have upcycling and creating have been a blessing as far as extra income as well as great therapy for me and if I could have a work space that inspires me as much as yours does you it would just be amazing. Thank you so much for your consideration and I hope you enjoy your new space.

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  86. I have a Crap Room and would love for it to be a CRAFT Room! I have such trouble choosing color. All my rooms are beige. Your room is very pretty.

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  88. We have a combination living room/playroom (since there is no extra room for a playroom) that I would love to redo. Would love to use chip it for any of the rooms in my house though. Fabulous craft room!

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  89. I would love to win this gift card and make-over our “guest bedroom”….. It’s currently just a room 🙁

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  92. I just love the desk your husband built! With the great wire baskets!
    The hooks under the picture, those are great! did I see those at World Market?
    how fun!

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  93. OOPs! forgot to say, I’d redo my tv room! or the living/dining room, or the kitchen, or my bedroom1 lol
    too much to do!

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  94. I would like to use the Chip it tool to make over my Living room/Dining room. I can not stand how it is now. There is no organization, it is a very small space and has to have multiple purposes. I despise this room. Any help would be enjoyable..

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  95. I’ve been redoing a friend’s bedroom and we finally finished it last week. We loved using the chip it tool to help coordinate all the pieces of the room. Next is my bedroom.

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  96. I would love to redo my masterbath. It has to be the ugliest bathroom ever! It has grey paneling, beige tub and sinks and a bad floor. I haven’t worked on this room because it needs to be gutted to the studs and then rebuilt. We haven’t had the money to start that type of project. I would love to begin working on it soon!

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  97. I’m in the process of redoing my daughter’s room into a big girl/nursery combo for her and baby #2! How great would it be if I won?!? ! 🙂

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  98. I would love to use the Sherwin-Williams Chip It Tool to make over my kids’ toy room. Right now it has just plain, boring, white walls. and not a whole lot of organization. Your craft room turned out so cute! I love the multiple drawer organizer that you got from Ikea. And both of your desks are beautiful! Thanks for sharing your room and for the giveaway.

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  99. I would redo my dining room. You can see if from my front door and I am so embarrassed by it. Lets just say light colored carpet and 3 kids have left it needing some serious love. I would do new flooring, paint the walls, a new light fixture, new rug, and do some fun wall treatments.

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  101. I want to win the $1000 Visa Gift Card!

    If your before is a “mess” I don’t ever want you to come to my house! LOL

    My craft room could definitely use a make-over… That would be the room to use the Chip-It on.

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  104. Oh I would love a makeover. Please pick me!!! Our playroom is a complete disaster and could use some organization! 🙂

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  106. I live in a small apartment of about 700 square feet and it was built in 1963. It needs alot of updating and space saving ideas to make it the “Littles Apartment in Nalcrest Florida”. See not being on the water isn’t important to me just the pleasant inside of my domain and beautiful God created scenery outside would be so fulfilling to me soul. I know you could create this and make others realize its not the high end items of life that are needed, just how you fix up what you have and new ways to put them to use.

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  108. I would love to do some make-over in my kitchen. I recently purchased a condo and the kitchen is outdated with old wallpaper and the cabinets are well…..better left unsaid. It would be so much fun to update and have a fresh new look!

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  111. Would love to redo our grandson”s bedroom, we have been raising him and haven’t personalized his room. This is really awesome!

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  112. I want to transform my “dungeonous” basement into a lovely craft room….where I can work and create and not have to clean up ….like now… everytime we need the dinning room table., I have to clean it off first!
    I need carpet for the floor, paint for the walls…better lighting….a nice work table….oh how lovely my new craft room would be, I would love to go down stairs instead of hating entering the dungeon! I can dream anyway!!!

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  113. I would love to win the visa gift card and sherwin-williams card to remodel my kitchen. It’s very outdated and need some help. Thank you Anna for the giveaway!

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  114. If I could change any room in my home, it would definitely be my craft room. WHAT WAS I THINKING WHEN I PAINTED THE WALLS RED????? I have always like the color red, so I went with it. All of the furniture is white, and the carpet is a dark khaki, but still. Why didn’t anyone try to talk me out of it?

    When our first grand daughter started talking she called that room the “crap” room because she couldn’t say “craft”. Sadly, it stuck. 🙁 Maybe she knew something I didn’t at the time.

    I hate going into that room. Even though I have lots of work space in there, I bring what ever I am working on out into the living room or kitchen. That is ok if I finish the projects before it is time to eat or relax for the evening.

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  115. How bout my whole house??? I am so over the paint… but especially my bedroom. Want to come redo my room?

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    • So much to be updated. Kitchen, Family Room, Bedroom- I thought once the kids got to 21 life would get easier. HA-I was wrong!!! Collecting ideas and hoping that someday soon……………………By the way LOVE the desk! What a great idea!

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  116. I have an empty room in my house that I would love to use for sewing, crafting, and my own little office space. It is a clean slate, nuetral beige walls & hardwood flooring & an (almost) empty closet, but I would love to see it designed in the colors of the Peacock (turquoise, green, blue, brown, grey, black) with plenty of storage and visual interest on the walls. It would be neat to have some pretty plants or a mural of a tree on one wall…..kind of exotic & fresh & modern all at the same time. Pick me!! Pick me!! 🙂

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  117. The room I would do is a craft room. I have crafts all over the house and when I go to do anything I have to search every where and when I can’t find what I am looking for, I buy new. I find it later. I have a small bedroom that I want to do. I don’t have a blog or twitter so I am sure my chances are low but I decided to take a chance. Love your blog Anna, so many fantastic ideas. Thanks for sharing.

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  123. Wow! That Chip It! tool is really great!
    I have a sewing room that is a complete disaster. Fabric and books on the table, floor and ironing board. I need to get my act together and organize that room. It would be wonderful to use that VISA money to buy some organizers, and beautiful paint on the walls would make it a much nicer place for me to work in. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  124. Your room looks great and very inviting.
    I’d like to makeover my bedroom that hasn’t been changed in over 20 years. Really needs updating.
    Thanks for the contest.

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  126. I would love to redo my living room or my bathroom. Both rooms are in need of fresh colors and style!

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