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Choosing Flooring for Your Craft Room

Choosing Flooring for Your Craft Room

You've finally got the go ahead to make your dream craft space. A space away from pets. Away from the husband. Away from the sticky fingers of the little ones. But now so many choices need to be made; what storage do I need? What colour scheme should I go with? And what craft room flooring is most suitable for my needs? This guide gives 5 things to consider for the latter.

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Craft Room Flooring Rules

Rule 1 - Know your colour scheme

Man with flooring and wall paint swatches laid on a table
Imagine trying to pick a craft room floor without swatches

There's nothing that can help narrow down a flooring choice than the constraints of the existing decor. Pick a flooring too dark for the room and your creative space can feel constricting and dingy. Trying to match to existing furniture can be a nightmare from using just a picture on a web screen. Luckily, Flooring 365 allow you to order free samples straight from their website, so you can see the true colour of the flooring in your home and see how it looks in all different lights.

Rule 2 - Know your floor size

Craft room flooring measure equipment (tape measure, caliper, technical drawing)
Maybe this is a little overkill equipment for your average home renovation project...

Pretty obvious one, but knowing the floor area you need to cover helps narrow down which flooring is in your budget. Very handily, all the products on flooring 365 allow you to enter a flooring area, and will instantly give you a cost there and then (none of the disappointment of setting your heart on something only to find out a week later it's out of your budget).

Rule 3 - Keep it easy to clean

Woman mops wooden floor
I wish my current craft room wasn't carpeted, a mop would be so much easier

It's no secret (honestly check out any of my craft YouTube videos and you'll soon discover) that I'm a super messy Crafter. Not even lying, while typing this up I've just spilt a whole bottle of water everywhere. It doesn't matter if it's sewing, painting, or a cheeky bit of personalising with the Cricut, it will look like there's been a riot going on in there. Inevitably, spills happen. Glitter seepage happens. Needles seeking freedom leap from fingers and camouflage in to the wood grain. So make sure you pick an appropriate flooring for the messiness of your craft; if you're likely to have lots of spills look into a flooring that can cope with moisture.

Rule 4 - Know your temperatures

My craft room is in our ancient conservatory. In the summer, the sun beams in, and it gets really hot, yet in the winter it can be like stepping in to a fridge (I have been known to work into the small hours wearing a plush Dino onesie. If you have a large range of temperatures your floor can endure, you need to take this into consideration in the flooring you choose; some types don't cope with extremes as well as others. Whether or not you have underfloor heating can also have an impact on the floor choice you make, so make sure to do your

Rule 5 - When do you need it?

Roller painting wall dark brown
Get that painting out the way before your floor arrives

As crucial as the flooring is to the look and feel of your new craft space, it is probably one of the last pieces to go in. You definitely want to have all the painting completed (who wants the stress of risking splats on your new floor?), and any other messy work done. The room also needs to be cleared of everything. In practicality, you don't want the contents of your craft hoard strewn across the house for too long. With good project management, you can plan to have your floor arrive at just the right moment; post-painting, but pre-furniture arriving. Luckily, even if you aren't too great at project management, flooring 365 have you covered, with next day delivery available across most of their flooring.

We hope these 5 rules of flooring help you make the right decisions in your craft room (or any other room for that matter!). Let us know in the comments below if there are any other tips you'd add to this list, and if you have recently transformed your craft space give us a tag on Facebook or Instagram so we can see it .

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MamaMakesDo.com was founded in 2016 by Charlotte Cook, a Mother and qualified Mechanical Engineer with a passion for money saving and cooking. When not running her blog, Charlotte can be found engaging in photography, baking something tasty in the kitchen and learning a new crafty hobby (current challenge: learning to knit). She is also an avid gamer, spending her (fleeting) free time catching up with the latest releases and building up her retro collection. Check out my About Us Page.

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