Home DIY ~ little storage unit

Today I'm feeling a bit restless. I finished up an earlier post, did a bit of homework.. I decided to clean up my apartment. There is this particular place in my room that has been bugging me for a while.. It is messy and I can't find my stuff when I want to go out. I decided to reorganize this area!

Since my apartment is soooo tiny and I have way too many things, it can become quite messy over time. When I'm not happy with the way my stuff is organized, I start looking for things around my apartment which I can use to create a new storage unit.

This is what I found:

Ok without the utility knife and the pen..
I found a box used for transporting some kind of fruit (from the grocery store) and two strips of mdf. I have a massive amount of scrap material from building models for school, so there is always something I can work with.

For some magical reason the strips would exactly fit through the little holes in the side! I cut four more holes, two on each side. This way I can form two shelves out of the two strips. I had exactly enough material!
When you cut the strips, make sure the strips are 1 cm too long on both sides. This way they will stay in place when they bent a little (too much).

Tada! In little than 15 minutes I had made myself a little shelf unit ^_^

Let's see the before and after of the space I was reorganizing:

Sorry for the bad quality! All of a sudden my camera was like this :( but I only noticed it on my laptop..

Anyway this was the before. This is where I putmy keys when I arrive home. So I also store here all kinds of things I might need when I go out, like bike lights, ear plugs etc. And a lot of ..crap
The little drawer on the right is actually a woven box thing without a lid. A while ago I turned it on it's side and made little drawers out of cardboard. It looks kinda clumsy, but the whole box wasn't even on both sides so it's not my fault =P

Yay so much better! There were a lot of things I threw away, that's why it looks so empty right now.. I also found some stuff I lost, so it was a good thing to do ;)

Here's a close up

The little glass containers used to contain crème brûlée. I ate a lot of it as you can see ;) haha They are just perfect to storage little things like cash or ear plugs. The holes in the corners of the box can be used to hold pens.

Now I have finally created a space I'm happy with and where I can actually find my stuff ^_^
You can make a storage unit like this yourself, just look around your apartment or local stores to find some materials to work with! I hope this inspired you to create some handy pieces out of scrap material ;)
And don't be afraid to fail! I've created storage units that all of a sudden would break down.. uhum but you learn from these things! Let's hope this one will do it's job for long time ;)

See you!
Anne Lien