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Large or small, colorful or rustic, what kind of sewing room do you want?

Design Styles: Pictures (1-4) show different sewing room styles. You’ve got the more rustic rooms that uses old wooden storage containers, and then there are more colorful rooms with the fabric all on display and painted shelves. You even have a very minimalist room with black and white furniture pieces and a well organized mood board.

Small Sewing Room Ideas: If you have a small space to work with, or don’t have a lot of space in the house for a sewing room, some options include turning a closet into a workspace (5). The great thing about doing this is that you can close the doors and hide everything away when it is not in use. And the inside of the doors make for great storage space. Have a look at our closet offices post for ideas on turning a closet into a functional workspace. For those with even more limited space, a good sized suitcase can be organized to store all of your sewing equipment (6).

Another idea is to divide up an existing room like a family room, bedroom or kitchen to make space for a sewing area. A room divider like an IKEA book shelf seen in picture (7) can hide away the sewing area while the rest of the room is being used for something else. Have a look at our DIY room dividers post for more ideas and designs on how to easily divide up a room.

Picture (8) shows an outdoor shed that has been created into a cozy sewing workspace.

Large Workspaces: If you have a large room, and are looking to create an ultimate dream sewing room, a kitchen style island in the middle of the room would be a great feature to have(9). A central workstation makes it easy to grab everything you need, and provides for a large countertop to work on.

When it comes to storage ideas (10) have a look at our post here:

While decor ideas for the sewing room can be found here:

For more craft and sewing room design ideas and pictures follow our Pinterest board here. 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10

How you organize your sewing room will depend on the size of it. If you have a small space to work in, you’ll want to make use of sewing room organization ideas that use the walls as much as possible. Like the peg board in picture (7) and the rails and magnetic strips in picture (8). For other ideas on how to create a sewing room in a small space (creating a closet sewing room, or using a suitcase), have a look at our sewing room designs post.

One thing to keep in mind when you are creating storage space and organizing a sewing room is that your materials and supplies can be used as decor pieces. By having your colorful materials and fabrics out in the open you instantly create decorative features – like having your spools of thread hung up on a wall and all color coordinated (even in a frame?). Have a look at our sewing room decor post for more ideas and pictures on how to use your materials and tools as decor pieces.

A mood board is a great thing to have in a sewing room to group together all of your inspirational pictures and have them on display above your work table. Corkboards work fine, but something like this can easily be turned into a decorative piece by having a frame around it.

Having an ironing board in the sewing room is always convenient. This can be left out (not very stylish), put away in a closet, or hung up on a wall. It is nice having it attached to a wall – it makes it easy to just pull down and use. But it’s not really sexy having an ironing board stuck on the wall. Check out Beckie’s tutorial here on how she created a paint shelf that rolls out hiding an ironing board behind it. Another idea would be to hang it up behind a curtain.

Don’t forget the style of your storage pieces will play a big role in how your sewing room will look. The first few pictures above (2-5) use more vintage, old wooden style storage containers, organizers, and cabinets. While other sewing rooms (8-9) use more modern metallic and glass storage containers, railings, etc. – and have all of the colorful fabrics and materials out on display. 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10

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A lot of your workspace, equipment, and materials can be turned into decor features for your sewing room. For example a mood board can also act as a wall decor feature just by putting a great frame around it. Or how about putting up rows of clipboards to hang up your mood board pieces?

The great thing about a sewing workspace is that you’ll have a lot of colorful fabric around. This can be hidden away in draws or cupboards. Or they can be stored in a way that displays them in the room like in picture (1). How about using ladders to hang the fabric on, or using open furniture like cubby holes/closets, shelves, or vintage baskets (2) where you can store your fabric in the open. Have a look at our sewing room storage post here for more ideas.

Another idea is to have your thread out in the open too, just like in picture (3). Have a look at our sewing room designs post and check out the photo of the thread spools hanging up on the wall in a frame. It is one thing to have all of these colorful threads and fabrics out in the open, but if you color coordinate everything (group colors together) it will look even better.

If you have some great looking tools, these can be stored and displayed out in the open too – just like the scissors hanging and decorating the wall in picture (4). If you don’t have any, check out Etsy for some vintage sewing tools that you can use as decoration pieces – things like scissors, measuring tapes, an antique sewing machine, and vintage spools of thread (5).

Other sewing room decor ideas and accessories include having an elegant chandelier hanging down and lighting up the room (6). Or how about having a vintage mannequin/dress form standing by your sewing work area (7)? 1/2/3/4/5/6/7

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