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DreamBox Craft Room Storage Cabinet Review – Is a DreamBox Right For You?

September 17, 2024

Close-up of DreamBox 2 Storage — (Create Room, n.d.)

“A DreamBox 2 is a craft storage cabinet from Create Room. It’s a tri-fold storage cabinet that is filled with shelves, totes and bins to organize craft supplies. This piece of craft storage furniture folds and unfolds to the size of an armoire or over 9 feet wide and standing almost 6 feet tall at 5’11.

The DreamBox 2 is completely customizable for your crafting and storage needs. The DreamBox 2 is the latest DreamBox from Create Room. It was also formerly called the Original ScrapBox.

The DreamBox 2 offers unparalleled organization and convenience. With its carefully designed compartments and modular features, the DreamBox 2 aims to streamline your crafting process and save you valuable time by helping you create efficiencies” (Beaton, 2023).

Ask a chronically online crafter, especially those who work with Cricut cutting machines, and they’ve probably stumbled upon the DreamBox before. This massive extendable cabinet houses and organization system made with crafters specifically in mind. The attention to detail and modularity of the cabinet is staggering, with hooks to hang scissors, shelves perfectly wide enough to keep paint bottles upright, and it’s own fold-out table. For an extra expense you can also add lighting, specially-designed totes, and have it delivered to your door assembled. However, these extra expenses will be tacked onto an already large base price of $2,599.

So what is it about this expensive cabinet that has crafters so excited to promote the DreamBox 2? I looked no further than a craft blog to find out, and the pro’s aren’t very surprising. “The DreamBox holds an unbelievable amount of craft supplies. … The large totes work perfectly for 12×12 cardstock along with rolls of vinyl, iron-on and infusible ink. I’ve also filled them with rhinestones, polymer clay and sublimation supplies. The medium totes I’ve filled with fabric, double sided tape, blank cards and cut away cards. And the small totes or notions have worked out perfectly for markers and paint brushes. I love that it fits multiple Cricut machines along with cubbies I used for spray paint. The metal rods on the door are perfect for hanging washi tape and ribbon” (Beaton, 2023). Honorable mentions go to the added workspace and customization that differentiates the DreamBox 2 from its predecessor. The con’s were also quite standard, discussing the cost and ease of setting up the DreamBox in the writer’s space.

What I found most interesting about this article, is the way it allowed me to draw parallels between the crafting community and problems that already exist in the trunk/frunk store market. People want storage specially catered to their needs, but cost and ease of use emerged as areas of concern in both cases. Ultimately the DreamBox is a perfect example of the specific needs and storage solutions that benefit crafters specifically, and my conjecture will incorporate some of these features.

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