Ideas for your Scrapbooking Room

Hi there...

Have you been wondering how you can transform a room in your home or even a corner of a room into a beautifully organized scrapbooking room lately? Do you have some obstacles in the way to prevent you from doing that though? Perhaps an a/c unit or heat register? Perhaps a big computer tower and / computer station that you can not seem to HIDE but would love to?

Well I believe I have a couple of really cool ideas for you (from my favorite CREATIVE home REdecorating website EVER) that will give you more space and hide the eyesores.

First: Hide a register and get a display stand!
http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/2009/03/handsome-makeover-for-ugly-ac-unit.html

Second: Reinvent the computer tower...and gain more space.
http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/2009/02/ikea-lack-htpc.html

Third: What about that ugly old cabinet or set of drawers in the room that is very practical but also horrible to look at? Want to refinish it but don't want to sand, stain or paint it? Try this:
http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/2007/08/more-fira-mini-chest-hacks.html

Or the comfortable but falling apart office chair; does it support you well but need a new face?: http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/2008/02/save-your-old-chair-with-new-look.html

Fourth: What about your display items...would you like to be more creative with how you stock your shelves with scrapbooking supplies OR how you post your latest scrapbooking pages? Have you thought about peg boards, magnets or trendy curtain wires before? Why not create your own versions of these?
http://bungalowinsanity.com/2008/05/11/a-cheap-and-easy-way-to-display-kids-artwork/#more-353


Fifth: Or why not redo the entire room from an empty slate (bringing most of it up on the walls). You will LOVE THIS! http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/2008/12/home-office-make-over.html

I am just about finished my reno's too. I have organized my scrapbook room in exactly the way I had envisioned it. And all I have left to do is get the peg board up and stack the shelves again!

Stay tuned.

Scrapbooking Ideas - and How to OrganizeThem!

Okay...so I am sharing a TON of Scrapbooking Ideas with you here on this blog. And I am getting a lot of emails from people who have visited and have liked what I have shared.

So I think I have a duty to help you keep all of the ideas organized - if you decide to write them down or print them off for filing. So here are 5 amazing tips to keeping your Scrapbooking Ideas Organized:

1. Plan a list of categories that your ideas can fall under (ie: album making, paper making, titling, journaling, photography, matting, cropping, accenting, embellishing etc.)
2. Then create manila filing folders with one category word per folder.
   
3. Start putting those same category words on the top of each page (that matches those words) you have listed your ideas on (it's okay if they fall under more than one category - but stick to the main ones). And start filing them under their respective folders. *For those you have multiple categories for, copy them - and file accordingly.
   
4. Then get a copy of Paper Tiger through the Products page on Simply Productive - *I know it is somewhat expensive - but when you know all that it can do for you - it will be the best investment you could ever make. (Just imagine spending 5 seconds or less finding anything you need in the filing cabinet!)
5. Then whenever you are need of an idea for any of those categories - all you need to do is search your keywords in this amazing software and Bob's your uncle!
   
   P.S. The Paper Tiger Software is great for organizing your bills, files and all other paper files! It is my personal saviour!
   
   

Happy Scrapping!