Help. I can’t stand it anymore and now that I am starting a new full-time job, I will have even less time to sit around and brainstorm ideas on how to fit my creative world into a small second bedroom of our condo in Brooklyn.

We’ve lived in this space for almost 2 years now, and I would really like to get this fixed before our second anniversary of living here rolls around.

This where you, my friends and stalkers, come in. I need ideas. And most importantly, even though my husband doesn’t use the space very often, he needs to be on board as well. I fought so hard for a second bedroom whenever we were looking for houses 2 years ago, and I’m glad I did. I don’t know how we would fit all of my crap into a one bedroom flat considering my varied and shifting interests and his technical and architectural pursuits.

That being said, it’s a pretty small room, has a huge glass sliding door out into a balcony currently occupied with storage and our newly installed central air conditioning unit, and NO CLOSET space. The room is 8′x10’11″. What do I do?

What I am looking for:

  1. No knocking down walls (as much as the hubby would probably have fun doing that.)
  2. Separate “his” and “hers” working desk space.
  3. I do scrapbooking, various crafts, and of course the occasional programming (grin.)
  4. Adam likes to program and I’m trying to get him to do his photography again.
  5. We have various programming books and I need separate storage for my crafting projects from his photography needs.
  6. I’d also like a place to have a nice printer/scanner station.
  7. We probably have to fit a dog kennel in there somewhere.

And now I will hereby embarrass myself by posting some crappy pictures of the room: