In the fourth season of Sarah’s House, Canadian Designer, and TV Personality, Sarah Richardson strived for some stand-out designs in a conventional suburban cookie-cutter home.

In this season Sarah takes a “builder-basic” and upgrades it – episode by episode, room by room – as the house comes together reflecting her signature balance of contemporary and traditional décor.

My personal favourite room of the season was the craft room, a space I personally dream of having in my own house one day.

The floor plan – identified as having four bedrooms – had one of the bedrooms redesigned as an “inspiring and fun”¹ space. Sarah said that in Canada “75% of households have an avid crafter;”².

Sarah’s top list of requirements for the room’s design were practicality, functionality and durability. As a pro, Sarah employed her professional versatility and thriftiness into the execution of this project.

The walls are colored in cool shades of blue for the purpose of clear-minded creation. The decorative white band on the ceiling adds interest and a sense of depth, as if it is drawing your mind up into the clouds of your creative compulsions.

The fabric peg board is my favourite element. Taking up the entire wall, the board allows for unlimited versatility when mounting and displaying designs.

A space cannot offer creativity, if creativity has not been invested into it first.

An island becomes a peninsula of craft where magnetized spice jars serve as supply sorters which are mounted on the wall for easy and instant access.

The hardy wooden table is the perfect height for laying patterns and cutting fabric. Attached to the wall over the surface workspace, kitchen utensil holders find new purpose holding pens and brushes for creative innovation.

Everything about the “lab-inspired craft room”³  is tailored to serve the needs of most any crafter.

The major goal of the room was storage for a diversity of project-types.

Here, labeled drawers were customized for their crafty purpose with hand-chosen hardware by Sarah.

An eye-catching set of drawers tailored to the creative purpose of the room received some DIY painting using colours pulled from various elements in the room, tying all together.

Sarah maintains that the joy of any craft room is its accessibility – not only of its tools – but in its placement within a home. As a space for the whole family, creativity is in collaboration!

And – if need be – everything can be removed and the room converted back to a bedroom if required.

¹²³See how the room came together in the fourth episode of Sarah’s House, season 4.

All pictures sourced from Sarah Richardson Design. Photography by Stacy Brandford.

Researched and Written by Emily E.A. Stringer, Undergraduate of Sociology, and Geography: Environment & Sustainability, from the University of British Columbia.