If you're in New Year's organization mode, consider repurposing a few things from the kitchen to help you straighten up your sleeping space. Silverware and ice cube trays can be used to sort jewelry and dresser drawers, kitchen hooks can transform into closet hangers, and pantry organizers can be converted into shoe storage. Click below for ideas and links to projects...
These ideas come from Martha Stewart: A pull-out pantry transforms into a shoe closet, and kitchen towel holders become scarf racks in the bedroom.
IKEA's kitchen storage rails can be installed on the inside of a closet door to hang belts, ties, and other small items.
More ideas from Martha: Dishes double as jewelry storage, while soap sachets keep drawers smelling fresh.
In the closet, S-hooks from a pot rack can be repurposed to hang bags and other hard-to-store items.
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Comments (8)
I use vintage muffin tins to store jewelry. It really matches my aesthetic so I leave it out on display. You can see it here.
I am in love with the pull-out pantry idea! My biggest problem with shoe organizers is usually that they don't utilize the depth of a closet, but this one definitely does.
I have all of my earrings stored in 14 day pill organizers. Since I have so many pairs, it's an easy way to identify them and keep them from tangling up!
That last one was from Real Simple, I believe.
I use old wine glasses to store dangly earrings - you just hook them off the rim and they look fabulous!
Pill organizers and similar plastic boxes are great for storing earrings. Especially silver ones, which then don't oxidize!
I bought some cute melamine cafeteria trays from target and use those to organize all my jewelry on my shelf-like headboard and in the bathroom -- and have put my egg-cup collection to use for my dangly earrings!
love the pill box idea as well!
Usha - love the wine glass idea.
My closet/prep space doesn't have much surface area, so I do a lot of hanging. Rather, my jewelry does. :) I actually used a tie rack for necklaces...the long pegs allow more than one strand per hook, and it has something like 26 pegs on it. Very handy, and it just uses up a small (otherwise unused) space on the wall.
I have my thick/chunky necklaces in a wooden silverware tray that came with out flatware set. We already had a better expandable one and we didn't need the free one, so it fits my chunky necklaces really well!
My earrings go in a divider that I bought at Bed, Bath & Beyond. It's a little generic, but it had fabric-lined compartments, which I liked. No one really sees it anyways, and it works for me, and keeps the earrings from tangling/scratching each other.
My life could be described with all the different ideas I've come up with to organize/store my jewelry! :)