5 Homemade Storage Ideas

Collect several toilet and kitchen roll tube (ensure they are clean of course!). Cut them down so that they are a range of heights. Taking some wrapping paper (a design of you choice, cover each tube. All tubes can be decorated the same of varied dependant on your taste. Next, using some strong glue, stick the tubes together so that the top of each tube is easily accessible. Fix a round base to the bottom of the tubes and voila! You have yourself a custom designed pen and pencil holder.

From time to time people quite off acquire drawer handles, whether this is because you have replaced your old ones or one becomes missing - Don't throw the odd spare away! These drawer handles can become effective scarf and tie handle. Simply attach the handle horizontally where you wish to hang your items. Drape them over and away you go.

When you scrap that last bit of jam out for your toast or spread that last bit of peanut butter.. Keep the jar! Give it a good clean out and decorate it to suit your taste using either coloured ribbon or even glass paint. The bog standard jam jar soon becomes a beautiful custom storage pot for all you small items.

So even the smallest of container can be turned into a helpful storage solution, you just need to think through what you are going to keep in it. When you eat your last sweet keep the tub and give it a good soak to get the label off. Ensure the container is completely dry and fill it with those flower seeds you have collected from the garden, or that packet of glitter you just don't want to use all of. Tah-da!

Keep your shoes boxes, take some high quality wrapping paper displaying a design of your choice and cover the shoe box. No longer does it look like that bog standard cardboard shoe box, instead you have created yourself a beautiful storage box.

So that's our top home-made storage ideas!