New Guest Room (Again)

Ever since we moved into this house, our guest room has been through several phases. First, it was the typical guest room with the double sized bed from our previous home. Then it became my massage room, and I let my massage table double as a guest bed (which hasn't been well received, lol). Since I am really not doing many massages, I wanted to change the room again. Yet I didn't want to go back to having the double bed because it takes up the entire room and it never gets used unless we have a guest staying with us. So, I set out to repurpose the room.

First I had to organize the closet so I could make room to store my massage table in it (just in case I want to give a massage!) This meant reorganizing all of my knitting & crochet stuff because it has really gotten out of hand. I pulled it all out of the closet and this was what I had to deal with:

Yikes. Well my good buddy Amber showed me the coolest stacking bins she got at Wal-Mart... so I went through everything and used some of those to get it all organized.

See? plenty of room to have my massage table in the back and all my bins stacked up in front. To the left of the bins is a reusable shopping bag which I put ALL of my project bags into. Here's a closer view of the bins:

In the top two small bins I have a bunch of small supplies like buttons, zippers, stitch markers etc as well as some spare straight needles (which I don't use anymore, but keep around in case I teach anyone to knit). I also have my cases that hold my circular needles, DPN's and crochet hooks. In the two deeper bins I have my yarn "stash", all of which is being used in current projects or a planned project that is coming up soon. In the bottom bin I have some yarn for upcoming projects, but mostly it is filled with my scrap yarn:

I did all of this yesterday. This morning Ian helped me go through the bookcase in the room and he got rid of a bunch more books - even priced them to be ready for my garage sale in a couple weeks :) We made room so that all of our Colorado books can go on one shelf (we have a TON!) and the top shelf is reserved for all of my craft books.
Oh and in the closet, we went through all the linens on the top shelf and kept only what we need, which left me some extra room for my sewing machine & sewing box too!

I'm planning to buy a few more bins so I'll be able to expand my stash and also include room for fabric and other sewing supplies :)

Then we moved out the headboard and all the massage room stuff, and brought over my LoveSac and IKEA couch which have been stored in my parents' basement. Now I have a nice lounging space AND the IKEA couch makes a VERY comfy bed.

I'm happy with the results! This will be a great spot to have friends over to knit, sew or do other projects.. it's a great "me" space when Ian's video games get too loud too :) And as a guest room, I KNOW this 'bed' is really comfortable (have slept on it myself for weeks at a time) whereas the massage table wasn't. It was a lot of work the past couple of days but I'm so glad I did it, and so glad my wonderful husband and dad helped me out with all the heavy lifting!

The best part is that, other than the bins for oganization, I didn't have to buy anything. I get to use stuff I already had :)