T2T in the office

This is a letter sorter made from an old spring.

In this pic you'll see my bulletin board that I dressed up with some old frames. Next to it is a wall pocket I made with an old drawer front.

This is an old doll crib, turned into a place for files.

This is an old bicycle basket that I use for files

Other uses for old bread boxes

this is my inspiration board, it's some sort of old drying rack, next to it you see the bicycle basket

Office organizer

For this project, I simply took some cistern buckets, and attached them to an old board. I added an old hinge on top as a hanger, but that is optional. It's great for holding markers, pens and scissors etc.

Catch all organizer

This organizer was made from some grain scoops that I picked up at a flea market. I spray painted them white an then rubbed them with fine sand paper to give them that aged look. Then I simply screwed them onto an old piece of wood and added hooks. This makes a great by-the-door catch all for keys, change, etc. And I'm sure you could think of many other uses for it.

Becky of beyond the picket fence

did this great project with an old shoe form. She Writes: "I found an old board that the shoe form fit on nicely. I used E6000 glue and glued it in place first. When that was dry, I screwed a screw from the bottom of the board up into the back part of the shoe form. I could not screw into the front part of the shoe form because it was so narrow or thin, but it was secure with the glue. I screwed the memo clip into the back part of the form. You need to use a washer because the clip handle hole is big. And then I coated the whole thing with some polyacrylic ( the picture I have was taken before I coated it, so it looked a little better afterwards). If the shoe from didn't have holes in the front for pens and pencils, I am sure you could drill holes for that purpose."

Here's an old bread box that I use to display my pretty folders that are for sale in my booth.

business card holder

I framed my calendar with a great old oval frame that was painted and then distressed

For this area of my office, I brought out some things that are usually stuffed in drawers to accessorize the shelves

This birdcage has been turned into a Craft organizing center. Simply spray paint a bird cage , make shelves out of left-over wood and accessorize with your favorite craft items or pretty papers. You can even slide envelopes and mail between the wires.

I found this idea in a local Antique/Junk store. It could easily be adapted for use in the home. They took a bunch of bakery bread baking trays, like these.

Mounted them on 2 boards at an angle, to make bins for display.

Just imagine the possibilities. Update: Here's the one I made
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Household Organization

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For this project, I simply had an old candlestick, and a spindle from a Chair. I glued the spindle to the top of the candlestick with liquid nails and let it dry for 24 hrs. Then to cover up the glue I added some ribbon and trim and there you have it. A Great storage and display for your bracelets. This project would look great painted and distressed too.

This will help the members of my family who can't tell if a dish is dirty or clean,LOL. It also helps me know when I can just load right into the dishwasher, or as a reminder when I should probably run a load.

I installed 2 shelves in the dead space above my Washing Machine. One holds a battery charger and the other has, what else, dryer sheets.

The other basket is a waste basket for all that lint. See those notes and arrows on the machines. Those are instructions for using the washer/dryer so my kids have no excuse for not knowing how to do their laundry.

Hi, I'm so glad I found you... I've been looking and praying for ways to become more organized w/o spending so much $. I love your lint basket idea- It cracked me up because this is a real source of pain in my hubby's life I'm forever leaving it out (not intentional-but He thinks I do it to pester him- um not a bad idea!) I loved all yr cute ideas- I'm more shabby chic so keep those ideas rolling! Love you from my rented cottage by the Lake in Wis.. Your new friend, karla

In a closet upstairs I have all our medicines. Everything is sorted by type into these baskets. I have a basket for First Aid, Stomach meds, Cold & Flu meds etc. On the shelf beneath I have cleaning products. The ones used most are in the handled basket, It's handy and all I have to do is grab the handle and go. The box holds stuff I don't need as often.

I have pictures (the ones not in books) sorted in these boxes by year. It makes it easy to find one when I need it. I also throw new pictures and momentos in the "current year" box for future scrapbooking.

In The bathroom, Left to Right (we sort small items like toothpaste, makeup, etc in these silverware sorters. I put this plastic drawer thing under the sink to put items I don't need often, but need often enough to have them handy, It's better than throwing it all in a box or a drawer. And this is not only pretty, but functional, We hang our towels here daily to dry out for a second use.

Scrapbook supplies have a home in this old wooden carrier, and Sewing items are sorted using plastic sorters in the top drawer of my sewing cabinet

I had a lot of vertical space in this TV Cabinet. I found this unattactive, but functional shelf unit and it fit right in. The doors are closed most of the time so it is not seen. The green and yellow pictures boxes you see, sort DVD's and electronic cords.

This little cabinet is cute and it holds table linens, special glasses, and candles in an open display.

Computer Armoir allows me to hide the mess in seconds

Garage and Garden Organization

My husband put up these 2 organizational items. The first one holds keys for each driver in our home, as well as door openers, glasses etc, that we would need when leaving the house. On the right is in our Garage. It holds our garage door openers so we can open the doors as easily as flipping the light switch. Other items are hand there on the hail hooks. Not pretty, but very practical

This is something you can pick up at any Hardware store, and is great to get those tools up off the floor.

This is just some peg board, mounted on the outside of the garage for those garden tools.

Roger built dog beds into the cabinets in our mud room. It's great because during the day the doors are closed and it all goes away.

And now for some controlled Chaos, my very unorganized pantry

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