14 fresh ideas to plan and organize your craft room

Hacks and ideas to solve your craft room storage woes.

If there’s one thing I know about DIY, is that you need storage — storage for supplies, tools, leftover bits and bobs, paused projects (you know, the macrame tapestry from 2018?) and for future projects.

Luckily for us, IKEA is synonymous with storage. And with a bit of hacking, you can make it to store all your craft supplies.

Let’s take a look at some craft rooms and see how they do it.

The crafting table

#1 LACK cutting table

There are many ways to build a craft table. This one from Brooke is one of the easiest I’ve seen, made from 12 LACK side tables. The space beneath the LACK table tops provided space for storage, which she organized with baskets and bins.

On top, she laid a cutting board over the IKEA STOPP anti-slip underlay.

Lastly, she fastened picture ledges along the sides of the table to hold her rulers, pencils and tools.

#2 KALLAX craft table

Besides the LACK, the KALLAX 2×2 is a favourite in craft table hacks. And for good reasons. You can add wheels, inserts, drawers and doors to customize to your heart’s content. See Karen’s craft table hack here.

#3 Kitchen island craft table

IKEA kitchen cabinets are great for craft rooms as well. I love how the IKEA Home Tour Squad transformed this back room into a craft space. The island, built from SEKTION cabinets, works as a cutting table. There are also kitchen cabinets towards the wall for a small pantry and hung up high for closed storage.

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And the best thing about using the kitchen system is you can use all the accessories made for the kitchen to store your craft supplies. Like the small VARIERA boxes and KORKEN jars.

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See the makeover in the video below.

Make room for storage

#1 KALLAX shelving unit + boxes

In Taylor Made Creates, Taylor uses the KALLAX 5×5 as her main storage unit.

Credit: Taylor Made Creates

To keep the palette serene, she inserts white DRÖNA boxes into majority of the cubbies. On the right column, Taylor stores all her fabric samples, wound around comic book boards (brilliant!).

Credit: Taylor Made Creates

For larger swatches, Megan of The Homes I Have Made stores them in the DRÖNA boxes, with a pretty tag in front.

Credit: The Homes I Have Made

#2 IVAR system + SAMLA boxes

The IVAR is awesome as the open shelving allows you to easily see what you have. Pair it with some SAMLA boxes to sort and organize. And magazine holders to keep files and patterns.

Source: IKEA Home Tour

What’s more, if you don’t have lots of space you can use the IVAR fold up table module to create an all-in-one craft desk.

Hang them up

Another IKEA Home Tour Squad craft room makeover provided some great ideas there.

This one in particular (from the 2:00 mark) caught my eye. The DIGNITET curtain wire holds up the tubes of paint and turns them into a beautiful display. Below that the GRUNDTAL rail and caddies for brushes, pens, etc. (GRUNDTAL is discontinued. Replace it with the current KUNGSFORS system)

Obviously, the SKÅDIS is made with crafters in mind. Use the SKÅDIS hooks to hang up your range of brushes and tools and containers for smaller items.

And, in the photo below, is another great example of IKEA hacking itself. They wall hung the cheap GREJIG shoe rack to hold paper rolls.