An IKEA craft room with kitchen cabinets

An expert look at how to establish a perfect IKEA craft room

Cupboards, cubicles, crevices, corners and containers can’t begin to handle a crafter’s contents.

Crafters know that there is nothing worse than a disorganized work space. Kitchen cabinets sort it all out, especially when combined with with IKEA’s storage solutions and drawer inserts to easily classify and store all supplies. See this idea for a neat IKEA craft room with kitchen cabinets!

What’s needed for this IKEA craft room?

Our design takes advantage of the white cabinet tradition in craft rooms – used mainly for its clean and sleek look. Also because it’s an easy color to combine with the many colors usually present in a craft room. Three 18″ three drawer cabinets and two 36″ door cabinets were designed in Axstad for the base cabinets.

Cabinets were set apart a bit to create two comfortable seating work areas. Use a laminate countertop as EKBACKEN in a dark color for easy clean up.

Small items such as buttons, needles, charms, ribbons and beads are stored easily in drawers inside Droppar jars; ideal because of the clear lid so their contents can be seen from above. Items used less frequently, such as packaging and heavier items, are stored in the drawer and door cabinets.

Larger items such as fabric or scrapbook paper must be easy to separate by color or pattern . . . otherwise a 45 minute project turns into a two hour nightmare. For this purpose, our design includes Lack floating shelves.

Glass doors are great to showcase finished products. Don’t forget to add in cabinet lighting and glass shelves for an accentuated look.

Finally, the KUNGSFORS kitchen accessories series are quite useful – for example, using rails to hold ribbons, wrapping paper, cuttlery caddies for writing supplies.

The room measurements are shown below: