Day 27 - Shelves {31 Cheap & Easy DIY Organizers}

Day 27 – Shelves {31 Cheap & Easy DIY Organizers}

Hilda Rodgers
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Think you have to spend a lot of money on costly organizing tools to get your house in order?  Nope!  Getting organized doesn’t have to be expensive!

Shelves are a great organizing tool.  But they can be expensive to buy.  If you want to use shelves to help you organize, but don’t want to spend a lot, you can make your own shelves, often for a fraction of the cost of buying them.

Here are some ideas to get you thinking about how you can DIY shelves!

  • If you want to maximize the vertical space somewhere in your home, you can add your own “shelves” using baskets.  Check out this tutorial for a very cheap and easy solution!
Needing a shelf when there isn't one? www.organizingmadefun.com Floating bookshelf hung under television with two hanging hanging white plastic baskets. Two beige fabric baskets on shelf below holding Wii games and accessories.

Organizing Made Fun

  • Floating bookshelves are so pretty and incorporating them into a child’s room for their picture books is a great idea!  Here’s a tutorial to help you make your own.
Floating bookshelves tutorial. Askannamoseley.com Thin shelves attached to wall in children's room beside pink curtained window, holding picture books.

Simply Organized

  • Here’s another tutorial for how to make custom floating shelves.

Simply Organized

  • Another DIY shelves idea is to use simple crates.  Here’s a post showing you how to make these pretty shelves.
DIY book bins made with a rectangular wooden crate, painted white, cut in half lengthwise and stacked mounted on the wall. The bind hold multiple picture books.

I Heart Organizing

  • Here’s another tutorial for using a stack of crates for a full bookcase.

Calm Cradle

  • If you don’t want to attach shelves to a wall, you can use basic shelves and stacks of bricks. I’ve had these shelves for years. Here they are in our basement, but over the years they’ve been in my bedroom, my office, and my living room. I love the look of them! 
From Overwhelmed to Organized. Organized desktop with computer. Two levels of bookshelves sit on top of desk with labelled boxes on top.

Desk Shelves

The best thing about DIY’ing shelves is you can make them so that they suit your style and your space.  These ideas are all so different, but they all give you extra space to organize and store items in your home!

How do you use shelves to help you organize?  Have you DIY’d shelves in your home?

If you need help organizing, contact me for in-person organizing services in the Mississauga area, or virtual organizing services anywhere else.

Happy {Cheap & Easy DIY} organizing!


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