Creating a space to learn in your home can be easier than you think. You don’t need walls filled with primary colored ABC posters and multiplication facts. My homeschool space has changed over the years as I grew more and more comfortable with not having it look like your typical school classroom. I’ve paired down my school books considerably, only keeping those which are useful and donating the rest. Whether you have a whole room to dedicate to a homeschool space or just one cabinet close to the kitchen table, it is doable!
While we “do school” in multiple rooms of our house (living room couch, bedrooms, outside porch swing, kitchen table), it has been helpful to have a room dedicated to housing all our school supplies.
Photos of my own homeschool space
In this corner of the room, I took an Ikea Expedit (now they sell the Kallax) and built doors for the fronts of each section out of black foamboard. I attached them with packing tape and designed the fronts to resemble lockers by adding handles and mailbox sticker numbers. Behind these doors are all our children’s books! The two white storage bins are drawers from an old desk that we were getting rid of that I painted and stenciled “Storage” in black.
This is an old wooden bookcase that used to be in my room as a kid. It holds some of our chapter books and Nature-themed books and journals. To the left of the bookshelf are three clipboards. That’s where I post each child’s weekly schoolwork to-do list.
This corner shows my teacher manuals, special books we’ve used in past years that I’m not ready to get rid of yet and math supplies, as well as some decorative items. I covered white cardboard magazine bins from Ikea with wood-grain contact paper for a cohesive farmhouse look and added library tags with brads. I also spray painted the “1-2-3” plastic drawers, which hold math supplies, and the larger math manipulatives are housed in the wicker basket. Keeping everything labeled makes it easy to find anything quickly in our homeschool space!
This small bookcase was also a piece of furniture from my little girl days. It perfectly holds more of our chapter books. On top is where I house our school supplies that we use most often. This metal container is from Hobby Lobby and the short, wide glass jars are from Amazon.
Just like the storage bins shown in the first photo, these bookshelves are also desk drawers that I painted and screwed to the wall to hold (more!) chapter books. One old desk provided a lot of book storage for us!
