A peek into my space...

So, today is "insider tips" day and I thought it might be fun to take a peek inside my scrap room. :) We've been in our "new" house for over 3 years now and I started working on my scrap space probably about a year ago. I took forever for me to figure out how I wanted to lay the space out and there are still a lot of details I want to add, but it's finished for the most part. I love having a dedicated space for scrapping. Anyway, here's a main peek at the room from our family room...

The furniture came from IKEA...it's the Bonde system. I have an Efektiv desk in between 2 bookcase towers with drawers. Above the desk are 2 IKEA kitchen cabinets for more storage.

In the middle of the room, I have an OLD work desk that came from my Mom's old office. It's a BEAST, but it has lots of storage and a huge workspace. I store most of my tools in the drawers, plus just regular home office type stuff, so I'm not sure what I'd do without that monster of a desk. It was really important to me to have 2 desks...when we only had 1 desk in there, my hubby and I would fight for the space. Now, we can both be in there doing our own thing and nobody complains. :)
On the opposite wall from the computer desk is my IKEA Expedit bookcase. I had this one in our old house too...the storage is just invaluable....love it! I keep small embellies organized by color in those wooden drawers on top of the bookcase. Rubons and small stickers go in the 2 black boxes in the top right cubby. Of course, all of my paper is there...organized by manufacturer.
On the second row of cubbies, I use these IKEA baskets to store my AC Thickers. I have a TON (3 baskets full!)...most are from when I was on the AC design team and from SC kits, of course ;) The bottom 2 rows are full of albums and bigger baskets with miscellaneous stuff.

Those green magazine boxes on top of the Expedit are full of stickers, labels, borders, etc. I have them organized by type....labels/accents in one, letter stickers (organized by color) in another and finally borders in the 3rd one.

I keep packages of buttons, brads, Flair, etc. here in one of the cabinet drawers. I love having them all together like this....when I think, ooooh I could use a little something right here on this page, then I know which drawer to go to :)
All of my punches are in one of the desk drawers. I like to keep them handy...I find I use them more that way.
A small galvanized bucket holds my twine and jute...
Jars for buttons in the cabinet above my desk...you can also see a peek of my mists there on the other side. :)

Thanks for letting me share my space. Lisa will be here tomorrow to share some more summer inspiration. Happy almost weekend! :)