Easy, No Cost Drawer Organization
by
Dysko7710
2 Materials
30 Minutes
Easy
This was a quick and small project, but a big deal! I have two drawers in my kitchen that were getting out of control. They gave new meaning to the name 'junk drawers'. I could not find anything in them, and it was getting frustrating.
This is one drawer. I did not get a picture of the other one, but I think the other one was actually worse. It had crumpled up recipe papers in it that kept jamming the drawer - and the recipes didn't even belong in the drawer! And forget finding pencils for homework. I would dig and dig as my kids sat waiting for a sharpened pencil. It was just sad.
I started by gathering and preparing my materials. I collected cereal and granola bar boxes and then cut them to a height that they would fit in the drawer (just cut the bottoms off). So, each box was about 2 to 3 inches in height. I already had shelf liner on hand and planned on using that to make them look better.
Next, I emptied out and cleaned out the drawer.
I covered the box 'bottoms' in the shelf liner. I covered my boxes on the outside and on the inside.
To cover the corners, you can see I cut the paper up to the corners and wrapped the sides over each other and brought the middle one up and over to make clean corners.
Lastly, I used them each for a specific purpose (writing utensils, rubber bands, etc.), filled them up and voila! My junk drawer is a clean junk drawer (at leas for now).
These boxes really are the perfect size for pens and pencils, and even things like white out, staplers, bags of twist ties and rubber bands. You could use larger boxes cut to this height depending on what you needed to organize in your drawer. You could use amazon boxes, etc. to do this as well. Hope you enjoyed!
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