When planning your barn house, or any house, be sure to consider the best way to completely utilize the third bedroom (or office space). Should you be an empty nester and into a smaller home, it could be your only guest room, but that’s okay, too. The point is to make the room work for a number of occasions, not just the fairly rare overnight guest or the less-than-daily-used office space. Combining the room into a multipurpose space where a bed for guests, a desk for administrative work anda crafting space (as just one example) can all peacefully co-exist in the same room is the objective.
Barn House Multipurpose Room Ideas
While the following have come from different sources (all noted), they each provide good ideas for how to best utilize space in your new barn house. If you’re like me, any and all suggestions for organizing and space usage are always welcome!
- A Pottery Barn photo displays a craft room where ever inch of wall space becomes a valuable asset.
- This Murphy bed and built-in shelving unit are a fantastic combination for use in a space saving situation.
- This picture from The Inspired Dorm.net, shows a great way to use a piece of peg board as a wall storage unit.
- From one of my newest web finds HomeTalk.com, comes this great closet idea. Remove the doors, install shelving units from Ikea and decorate with a fav fabric. Done!
Lastly, if any of you are avid sewers/crafters, check out this great blog I happened upon the other day: Sew Many Ways. This link features a blogger named Karen and photos (like the one below) of her creatively arranged “craft room”. What a great use for an old hutch!
- From the blog Sew Many Ways, comes a wonderful idea for the re-purposing of an old hutch – and much more!
