Organize all your craft tools with these brilliant DIY storage boxes
Anyone who loves to devote themselves to creative, DIY jobs and projects of any kind - from sewing to scrapbooking, from making repairs to recycling projects of all kinds - people like this will certainly have a whole arsenal of tools and various items to turn to whenever inspiration or necessity calls. Whether it is a room or just a corner of the house that is used infrequently from time to time, it is convenient to have storage boxes available where you can keep all the essentials for your activities ready to use.
Using your DIY skills, you can create various types of storage boxes - boxes that are both portable and those that can be mounted on the wall, depending on your needs. And to build these boxes you can creatively use items that are earmarked to be recycled. Check out the ideas below:
Set aside six tin cans (or any other similar metal container), all of which are the same size. Clean them thoroughly, strip them off and paint them any color you like. Then look for any wooden board whose dimensions are such that one side is as long as the diameter of a can multiplied by three, and add a couple of inches to it for good measure; on the other side, the board should be as long as the diameter of a can multiplied by two.
Shape the board in order to obtain a handle, and also eliminating two edges - as you can see in the photo. Sand and paint the board the same color as the cans. At this point, you just have to glue three cans on each side of the wood, and then tie them with a rope or a piece of string both at the top and at the bottom, and you will have an object holder to take wherever you need it.
If, on the other hand, you want to keep small tools tidy and ready to use - such as those used for shaping modeling pastes and clays - you can frame a perforated panel and equip it with hooks: it is a simple and cute object that will keep your tools tidy and alway ready on your workbench.
If you want to set up everything on a wall, once again the answer is the perforated panels to which jars and hooks can be fixed.
In this example, everything needed for creative work has been placed in an old baby's cradle end-frame, here used as a wall-mounted storage panel.
A multi-tiered cake stand is another idea that always comes in handy, even for organizing tools!
An iron pot holder with three pots ... only, in this case, you will not fill them with plants, but with everything you need to do your DIY projects!
When you use the perforated panels you can turn them into a decoration for the wall by painting them and arranging the objects on them in a aesthetically pleasing way.
And never forget how useful a wooden box can be for storing various tubes and rolls of paper (amongst many other objects)!
Great job!
