The Secret to Creating a Craft Room in a Closet * Moms and Crafters

Soon after we bought our current home, my husband and I converted this weird tiny room/walk-in closet into a craft room for me, but we still had one serious issue to resolve, that makes all the difference between a craft room in a closet that works and one that doesn’t. Disclosure: Thank you Jasco for sponsoring this post and solving my biggest craft room problem!

When I teamed up with Jasco to promote their Enbrighten Seasons Color Changing Café Lights, I realized that this was the PERFECT solution for my craft room lighting issue.

For our main lighting, we used a typical room light. But it wasn’t cutting it. I was considering desk lamps to supplement, but I have such limited space that I couldn’t spare that – between my sewing machine and clamp tripod…

When you turn a small dark space (literally a CLOSET) into a creative space it can be:

Dull and uninspiring
DARK! Since I blog my crafts, I need decent lighting.
Claustrophobic

Using Enbrighten Seasons Color Changing Café Lights solved these problem in a few ways.

How I solved my lighting issues in my craft room in a closet:

Okay, so it seems pretty obvious how mood lighting can really brighten the space. I love how the colors on Jasco’s Enbrighten Color Changing Lights totally alter the mood but they’re still really subtle and sophisticated – not tacky in the least.

The lights also played on the slightly industrial feel I had going on – rough around the edges – and made it more intentional.

They are dimmable and allow you to change one light at a time or two colors at the same time.

But the biggest problem they solved by far:

They allowed me to fix the color balance to a more natural tone.

Typically, I like to photograph my crafts using natural light. But I was struggling with very yellow in-process photos on the crafts that I created in my glorious craft room in a closet.

Playing around a little with the Enbrighten Seasons Color Changing Café Lights resolved that. I found the perfect tone (in my case it was a light blue/aqua color) to make my photos less yellow. You can see the photo below with the lights on, vs. the inset with the lights off (these photos are unedited):

When I don’t need the color-balance adjustment, I just turn on whatever I’m in the mood of. I’m a HUGE believer in color psychology (that’s like the aromatherapy of designers…) and I use these lights to my advantage.

When I want to feel creative, I switch it to any of the 3 shades of purple.

When I’m showing on my craft room I turn ’em all on.

When I need to relax, I go for blue.

When I’m TOO relaxed and want to energize, I go for oranges, reds, and yellows. Notice how well it shows off the artwork I have hanging…

And when I just want to brighten up the work space a bit I turn on white.

How to install Jasco’s Enbrighten Color Changing Lights in your craft room in a closet:

Figure out your placement and make sure you get the correct size lights. I decided to go twice around my shelving.

Hold the lights against a solid fixture (I used the beams that were supporting the shelves, as well as the shelves themselves). Screw it in place.

If you’re turning corners like I did, you’ll want something to hold it in place. For me, this rubber putty was the perfect fix. Tape it using painter’s tape until the rubber sets.