Storage is often a challenge when you rent. You might be renting a place like ours which has no living room, bathroom or bedroom cupboards. There's often just not enough places to put things. And if you're like us non-drivers, furniture shopping can involve a maxi-cab, begging a lift off a friedn or delivery service, all adding to the cots.
Here's a few novel ideas you can made from things around the home:
1) Fabric storageAs a crafty chick who loves all things vintage, retro. pre-loved or recycled my biggest challenge is keeping things in order.
After seeing a post on Craftster last year about different ways to store fabric I bought some of these
from
Minotaur Comic book store
Basically they are firm cardboard rectangles a bit smaller than A4. Comic book collectors use them to sandwich comic books to protect them. I use them to store fabric by folding and wrapping the bits of fabric around them. This allows them to be stored standing up in a plastic box or book case so that all fabric is tidy and visable. Visable means I am more likely to make something with what I have rather than buy more.Makes such a difference!
Incidentally I appeciate this is not the tidiest picture, it was taken when I was storing the fabric in our bedroom before we got another book case (and the spare room back as a study/craft room!).
2) Storing pots and pansThis is great if you like the idea of hanging them, but can't exactly drill a hole in the ceiling:
You can get the instructions
here3)Storage bins
These are a definite on my list of things to make (I have plenty of fabric hehe). You can see the instructions by J Carolyn Creative
here4.
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