11 amazing ideas to organize your craft materials and tools

by Mark Bennett

January 16, 2023

11 amazing ideas to organize your craft materials and tools
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Anyone who loves to engage in creative, craft projects certainly has at least one corner of the house, if not quite a room, dedicated to this: whether it's in a bedroom, or perhaps the garage, the attic and so on, there will be drawers and wardrobes full of all the tools of the trade. Yarns and needles for those dedicated to knitting and crochet or sewing, and then ribbons, colored paper, felt-tip pens, glue, scissors and everything that is most often used to create decorations and handmade objects of all kinds.

It takes very little time for all these materials to become a chaotic pile if they are not properly organized. To do this, check out the advice below:

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For a somewhat industrial style, any chest of drawers can be painted with blackboard paint. Then, the contents of each drawer can be clearly indicated using chalk.

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In order to reduce visual clutter, everything can be placed inside a cabinet with doors, ready to be used when necessary, but otherwise hidden from view.

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letsdiyitall.com

If, on the other hand, you like a look with a lot of shapes and colors, this is an idea worth copying.

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craftsbycourtney.com

Using colorful plastic trays as drawers will be an asset to any office. And when they are ver colorful and labelled clearly, it's so much more useful.

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decorbytheseashore.com

A dream for anyone who dabbles in sewing!

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Have you ever thought of treating your scraps of fabric as if they were folders for documents? This kind of office furniture comes in very handy, and you can use this arrangement for sheets of paper, cardstock and EVA foam sheets too!

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Are you skilled in carpentry work? Then you might like a cabinet like this, where every wooden box becomes a... drawer! Deep and capacious, everything will fit into it.

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Very little space for other cabinets? Time to take advantage of the walls. Hexagonal shelves are ideal for many small items, such as spray paint cans.

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But you could also use the narrow shelves for the same purpose.

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Never underestimate the convenience of pegboards, which you can also decorate with colored paint: not only does this make the board look more cheerful, but it will help you locate what you are looking for faster.

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An old child's bed frame is an ideal support for baskets and jars in which things can be stored. Yet another way to equip the a corner of a room creatively!

Which idea do you like best?

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