My son just got a new chest of drawers, freeing up my childhood triple dresser. I couldn’t stand to part with a piece of my childhood, so I wondered how I could repurpose this large furniture piece. Knowing I didn’t need another dresser to store clothing, I decided to use it to store my collection of craft ribbon. I’m a big fan of keeping things under-wraps, out of sight, not cluttering up my space.
We moved the dresser into my spare room/craft storage space and cleaned the drawers. First, I just put the ribbon in the drawers. That didn’t work too well. I had an aha, lightbulb moment and realized that tension rods would be the perfect solution.
I measured the drawer’s width to see what size tension rod I needed and ordered them from my friends at Amazon. After they were delivered, I emptied the drawers, pulled out all of my spools of ribbon, and organized them.
- Empty a Drawer
- Organize Materials
The next steps were quick and easy, which is the way I like any organizational project.
Slide the ribbon spools onto the tension rods.
- Thread Ribbon on Spring Rod
Place the tension rods in the drawers, and simply twist to tighten them.
- Tighten to hold into place
Guess what?! The project is now complete!
- Voila! Organized Drawer
Don’t limit the uses to just ribbon! This works with anything on a spool! Tulle, crochet thread, twine, and more all work well!
- Different uses
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