Good-looking Ways to Organise and Store Craft Materials
Discover stylish ways to keep craft tools and materials for your own and your children’s projects neat and to hand
Paints, glitter, glue, wool, thread, buttons, fabric, paper, card, string… Most of our homes have a few boxes full of useful materials like these. If craft is your business, they could even be taking over a whole room. To get your craft space in order, check out these top tips, which will ensure all your equipment is easy to access and beautifully stored.
Install a plan chest
You might not have a whole room to give over to crafting, as these homeowners have, but if you can fit an architect’s plan chest into part of your living space, you’ll find it invaluable for storing large sheets of card and artwork.
Look out for a lovely vintage piece online or at a reclamation yard. Plan chests are full of character and will look great doubling up as a sideboard in your living room.
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You might not have a whole room to give over to crafting, as these homeowners have, but if you can fit an architect’s plan chest into part of your living space, you’ll find it invaluable for storing large sheets of card and artwork.
Look out for a lovely vintage piece online or at a reclamation yard. Plan chests are full of character and will look great doubling up as a sideboard in your living room.
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Craft your own storage
There maybe some equipment that isn’t attractive enough to be left on display. These pieces can be hidden away in storage containers you’ve made yourself.
Here, shoeboxes have been covered in pretty wallpaper or wrapping paper and punched with holes for ribbons, while smaller boxes have been recycled and labelled for other items.
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There maybe some equipment that isn’t attractive enough to be left on display. These pieces can be hidden away in storage containers you’ve made yourself.
Here, shoeboxes have been covered in pretty wallpaper or wrapping paper and punched with holes for ribbons, while smaller boxes have been recycled and labelled for other items.
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String it along
Instead of grouping all of your finished pieces together on one noticeboard, string a banner of craftwork across the walls, as seen here. Children’s artwork and other works in progress, such as knitting, découpage and tapestry, can all be tied or pegged to it.
Instead of grouping all of your finished pieces together on one noticeboard, string a banner of craftwork across the walls, as seen here. Children’s artwork and other works in progress, such as knitting, découpage and tapestry, can all be tied or pegged to it.
Be clear about everything
By keeping all your bits and bobs in transparent containers, you’ll always be able to see where everything is and when you are running low on anything. A selection of mini clear plastic drawers makes everything very easy to access in this craft space and, as all the materials are in such pretty colours, it looks lovely, too.
By keeping all your bits and bobs in transparent containers, you’ll always be able to see where everything is and when you are running low on anything. A selection of mini clear plastic drawers makes everything very easy to access in this craft space and, as all the materials are in such pretty colours, it looks lovely, too.
Contemplate a crate
Use old apple crates or wine boxes to store piles of paper, tubs of paint or tubes of wrapping paper or fabric. An umbrella stand will also hold rolls of paper or fabric beautifully.
Use old apple crates or wine boxes to store piles of paper, tubs of paint or tubes of wrapping paper or fabric. An umbrella stand will also hold rolls of paper or fabric beautifully.
Pack it in
Vintage suitcases are relatively easy to find at antiques markets, online auctions and car-boot sales, so start collecting. Smaller than today’s suitcases, they make ideal storage containers for wool, crochet tools, knitting needles, paints, canvases, jewellery-making equipment and more.
Discover the beauty and versatility of vintage suitcases
Vintage suitcases are relatively easy to find at antiques markets, online auctions and car-boot sales, so start collecting. Smaller than today’s suitcases, they make ideal storage containers for wool, crochet tools, knitting needles, paints, canvases, jewellery-making equipment and more.
Discover the beauty and versatility of vintage suitcases
Colour coordinate
People tend to choose to work with paints, fabrics and wool in colours they’re naturally attracted to, so you might find you have an abundance of two or three complementary hues in your craft compendium. Keep these items on display and hide anything away that doesn’t tone with them for a pleasingly coordinated look.
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Have you come up with an attractive way of storing craft materials and tools? Share your ideas and photos in the Comments below.
People tend to choose to work with paints, fabrics and wool in colours they’re naturally attracted to, so you might find you have an abundance of two or three complementary hues in your craft compendium. Keep these items on display and hide anything away that doesn’t tone with them for a pleasingly coordinated look.
TELL US…
Have you come up with an attractive way of storing craft materials and tools? Share your ideas and photos in the Comments below.
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Make sure those items you use most regularly are always within arm’s reach, rather than tucked inside a cupboard or drawer. Here, everything from scissors to pots of pens are attractively hung from a sheet of pegboard.