I'm an interior designer and worked as an organizer years ago and I have never had an opportunity to set foot in an Ikea store! Thankyou so much for this very comprehensive tour. I get so very tired of seeing one ikea sewing room after another online, but I love the organizational ideas Ikea comes up with. I'm hoping to have a sewing room quite soon, but I'll be using mostly thrifted items and no open storage - such as pegboard - to reduce visual clutter. A room with minimal visual clutter is quicker and easier for me to keep sorted. One very underused, easy to build storage area in almost all rooms is on the wall, above the entry door into the room. I run a shelf from side wall to side wall just below the ceiling - above the door frame. I find it a great place for my fabric stash, using decorative labeled boxes. Using the wall above the entry door means that as you enter the room, it does not add visual clutter. For those people whose brains tend to wander off causing us to leave stuff laying here, there, and everywhere, rooms with less visual clutter can help us identify potential messes easier when we next enter the room. Easy to put things back where they belong causing less likelihood of the "mounds'o'crap" accumulating all over. And I agree with you completely - drawer organizers are key to creating a specific place for things to live!
I'm looking on market place for a cutting table. The kitchen ones , getting 2 sounds good. Also the 4x2 shelves, two on their sides gives 30x57? Idk. I need cheap, can't buy new thanks! Have to keep looking.
You don't have to attach the arms on office chairs, no matter where they're from. They're not structural and it's you screwing, or not screwing, them on.
Yeah I thought that until I bought one where the arms were the anchor for the backrest to connect to the seat. Best to check if the arms are detachable before buying. Lesson I learned the hard way.
I don’t screw in the drawers to the slides, so in my case, I can open the drawers all the way and take them out. I mainly do this because I have an issue with my property flooding and my downstairs craft room could be ruined. So in the event of a flood, I can take all the drawers out, take them upstairs (3 Alex cabinets = 18 drawers) and I’m able to get the empty cabinets upstairs, one at a time with a small dolly cart by myself. It has saved my various craft and sewing supplies. FYI, the drawers can be a bit more finicky to pull in and out when using them, but the fact that I can "save" my craft materials from being ruined is worth it for me. Hope this helps you.
I'm an interior designer and worked as an organizer years ago and I have never had an opportunity to set foot in an Ikea store! Thankyou so much for this very comprehensive tour. I get so very tired of seeing one ikea sewing room after another online, but I love the organizational ideas Ikea comes up with. I'm hoping to have a sewing room quite soon, but I'll be using mostly thrifted items and no open storage - such as pegboard - to reduce visual clutter. A room with minimal visual clutter is quicker and easier for me to keep sorted.
One very underused, easy to build storage area in almost all rooms is on the wall, above the entry door into the room. I run a shelf from side wall to side wall just below the ceiling - above the door frame. I find it a great place for my fabric stash, using decorative labeled boxes. Using the wall above the entry door means that as you enter the room, it does not add visual clutter.
For those people whose brains tend to wander off causing us to leave stuff laying here, there, and everywhere, rooms with less visual clutter can help us identify potential messes easier when we next enter the room. Easy to put things back where they belong causing less likelihood of the "mounds'o'crap" accumulating all over.
And I agree with you completely - drawer organizers are key to creating a specific place for things to live!
I love the little metal file cabinet for embroidery thread!
Thank you for this tutorial
Great ideas! Thank you
you can get adjustable legs too! that is what I have, being as I am very short!
I have that little "filing cabinet" to store my zippers and purse hardware.
I'm looking on market place for a cutting table. The kitchen ones , getting 2 sounds good. Also the 4x2 shelves, two on their sides gives 30x57? Idk. I need cheap, can't buy new thanks! Have to keep looking.
What bag pattern is your purse?
@@hildahickman4939 It’s my own pattern - Chunky Wee Bag - huntersdesignstudio.com/product/chunky-wee-bag/
You don't have to attach the arms on office chairs, no matter where they're from. They're not structural and it's you screwing, or not screwing, them on.
Yeah I thought that until I bought one where the arms were the anchor for the backrest to connect to the seat. Best to check if the arms are detachable before buying. Lesson I learned the hard way.
I think the prices for this fake wood (engineered wood or particle board) furniture is too high.
dont like that the alex drawers don't open all the way.
I don’t screw in the drawers to the slides, so in my case, I can open the drawers all the way and take them out. I mainly do this because I have an issue with my property flooding and my downstairs craft room could be ruined. So in the event of a flood, I can take all the drawers out, take them upstairs (3 Alex cabinets = 18 drawers) and I’m able to get the empty cabinets upstairs, one at a time with a small dolly cart by myself. It has saved my various craft and sewing supplies. FYI, the drawers can be a bit more finicky to pull in and out when using them, but the fact that I can "save" my craft materials from being ruined is worth it for me. Hope this helps you.