Loft Art Room/Home Office for Creatives

Get Inspired with Lofty Ideas from this Combination Art Room and Home Office for Creatives!

Don't get bogged down by dark or cramped spaces. Free up your creative thinking process with a home office like this one designed to let the creative juices flow! Custom built-ins provide the best functionality for your art room while maximizing available space in the home's loft. These art room built-in storage units are the key that makes this home office perfect for any creative worker. Neutral white storage doesn't compete with mood boards and other color-intense projects. All storage units in this example are designed to take advantage of varying ceiling heights. They tuck neatly under the slanted ceiling of the loft without sacrificing space or appearance. The 14 to 24-inch depth was determined by the owner's projects and typical needs for each section of the storage.

Whether you need a place for paint and canvases, blueprints, photography equipment, crafting supplies, or computer accessories, this art room has it! Run your software on the comfortable built-in computer desk with overhead cabinets, LED lighting, and built-in charging station for USB devices. Keep your paints, pastels, and pencils in the cabinets and shelves on the opposing wall. Set up your easel in front of the even, north-facing light available at the window. Then find room for in-progress canvases and larger drawings in the vertical storage or pull-out drying racks behind you along the opposite wall. There's even a nook for a drafting table if you need to sketch it out by hand.

Construction, materials, and accessories used in this project:

• Floor-based construction.
• Color: Many colors options available — example shown in traditional white laminate.
• One-inch HPL self-edge countertop in matching white 3/4-inch laminate at 30-3/4-inch height.
• One Hide-a-Dock charging station in desk countertop.
• Grommeted cut-out in desk countertop allows easy wire feed to outlets.
• LED puck lights mounted under the desk's overhead cabinets provide task lighting for computer work.
• Two pull-out pantry shelves inside lower desk cabinet provide storage for smaller items.
• Bar style cabinet door handles in brushed chrome finish.
• Fourteen Shaker style cabinet doors.
• Tall 74-inch cabinet with four hidden interior adjustable shelves fits under angled ceiling.
• Four adjustable shelves at 40-inches to 68-inches height for display or open storage of Plein Air paint boxes and supplies.
• Two 2-inch-height pull-out shelves/velvet-lined drying racks for laying projects flat.
• Three 40-inch-high tall vertical storage units and four 20-inch half-height vertical storage cubbies for canvases and large rolled drawings.
• Flat crown and base moulding.