How to make an organizer with their own hands: step by step master classes of paper, cardboard, boxes, fabric

Properly organize the workplace or the space around is the key to good luck and a good mood. It is very important when all the necessary things are always at hand.

Spending precious time to find the right little thing that is missing is very miserable. Especially when you are in a hurry and have to tear through a lot of items to find the necessary missing thing. A convenient solution to the problem will be to create an organizer with your own hands.

Purpose of organizer

Organizers originally were supposed to be a notebook or notepad to properly organize their work time. Nowadays the term organizer means the organization of working space with the help of convenient compartments, pockets, boxes for small items.

Functional work surfaces can be made in the kitchen, bathroom, children's room, hallway, work, garage, garden. The main purpose of organizers is to create a convenient, comfortable opportunity to properly organize the workplace in the room.

For stationery

Organizers are used to store office supplies. Searching for a button, clip, eraser or even pencils and pens is quite a chore if the office supplies are in one drawer.

You spend a lot of time searching for the necessary small things, you get nervous, you start to take out your irritation on other people.

It is convenient to put little things, using small boxes, jars in the made organizer and easily find the necessary things.

It is easy to move the organizer to another place without losing or changing the convenient location of office supplies.

For storing sundries

It's good to store small items with an organizer. There are often little things in the house that you don't know where to put. Organizers can be made for needlework items, small household items, jewelry and costume jewelry, gardening and many other uses depending on hobbies and interests.

For laundry

Convenient to use in storing small items of constant use. Can be used to store hosiery, underwear, handkerchiefs, belts and other small items.

In conveniently organized spaces, you don't have to worry about things getting lost, crumpled, or messed up. You can easily and conveniently take it with you on the road or move it to another place. Organizers take up little space on the shelves of cabinets.

For cosmetics

It is not always convenient to use a cosmetic bag to store cosmetics. Looking for small items in the cosmetic bag is a big problem. Organizing a convenient place to create beauty, comfortable storage conditions, when everything you need is at your fingertips, will lift your spirits.

You can use different boxes, jars, drawers to create an optimal convenient place for beauty creation. All things will be neatly stacked, take up little space and the little things will be at hand.

For the kitchen

Any hostess in the kitchen likes order and the constant arrangement of things. A well-organized workplace is a guarantee of a delicious and healthy dinner.

Quite often small items in the kitchen tend to go missing. Conveniently store lids, openers, spoons, condiments, sacks, bags and more.

Organizers can be placed on a wall, panel, or in a drawer. Many people use fabric organizers in the kitchen to store bags.

In the trunk.

A soft organizer can be made for tools needed to repair the car. Wrenches, screwdrivers, small items conveniently put in the trunk of the car and all the necessary tools will always be on hand in case of a car breakdown or repair.

Materials and tools for work

To create an organizer with your own hands, decide what you want it to be. It can be a work surface made of fabric, cardboard, paper, magnet, containers, sleeves from toilet paper, bottles from shampoos or lotions and much more.

You will need PVA glue to work with paper objects, and Moment or Master glue to work with plastic. To work with the fabric, prepare thread and needles, if the fabric is dense, find a needle of appropriate thickness. To work with all the materials you will need scissors.

Step by step master classes to create an organizer

1. Before you begin, lay out in front of you the items you want to put in the organizer. If there are many things, it is wise to make two organizers for ease of use.
2. Calculate the size of each compartment and the number of cells you need. It is not necessary to make the compartments the same size, the main thing is to make it convenient to take things out of the compartments.
3. Determine the size of the future work so that the work is well and conveniently placed on the table, wall or other surface.
4. Choose a color scheme so that the organizer fits well into the interior of the room.

Made of cardboard

The most convenient material for work is cardboard. From it you can make any shape of organizer, paint it in the desired color, it is convenient to glue. We propose the option of making a handy organizer-book.

Workflow:

• Cut from heavy cardboard blanks of the right size for the covers and spines of the book and connect each other in the shape of a book.
• Wrapping each book with wrapping or other paper.
• Make a closed side for the book. From cardboard cut a strip equal to the width of the book binding and a length equal to the height and length of the book.
• Bend the strip to the height of the book, making a corner, insert it into the book.
• Make a stand for the book-folders. Glue the two sheets of cardboard, getting a corner stand. Glue it to the sides.
• Glue the entire stand with paper.
• Insert books into a stand.

The organizer is ready. You can safely put there sheets, notebooks, notepads, maps and other items.

From boxes.

For office supplies and small items it is convenient to use boxes. For this purpose, the boxes of the right size, cover them with paper. Boxes can be different heights, widths, so that there is a separate compartment for each little thing.

For longer items take boxes of greater height and place them near the far wall of the organizer: pens, scissors, brushes, rulers. Place the lower boxes closer to you, so that it is easy to take small things: erasers, paper clips, buttons, staples for the stapler.

Glue all the boxes together or make a base - a large shallow box in which all the cells will be located.

From paper

To create an organizer from paper for office supplies you will need:

• Colored paper,
• Cardboard,
• Scissors,
• Glue-pencil,
• A pencil.

Work steps:

1. From each sheet of colored paper roll up a square. Excess strips are removed.
2. Fold the square in half.
3. Bottom and top edges of the square of the bend to the center and unroll the square.
4. Similarly marked the line folds on the left and right sides of the workpiece.
5. Bend the corners on the edges of the workpiece, using the resulting folds.
6. Top and bottom of the square fold to the center.
7. Turn the workpiece and bend the right and left edges to the center.
8. It turns out the module tumbler.
9. In the center of the resulting diamond insert a different colored paper.
10. All six modules are glued together along the wall tumbler.

We got a beautiful and original organizer, made in the art of origami for pencils, pens, scissors and brushes.

Textile

From old jeans, terry robes and towels you can make a convenient soft organizer for the trunk, garden, bathroom.

To do this, cut a piece of fabric of the right length and sew pockets to it. Pockets can be made multi-colored or monochrome. You can make the sections closeable with buttons or buttons or open.

If you plan to hang it on the wall, sew loops for the organizer. The soft organizer can be glued to a sheet of cardboard or plywood, if you want to have a frame, you can put it in a frame.

In order to easily carry it, think about how you can fix the ends when winding the organizer on a roll.

From unnecessary things

If you have a lot of empty vials from shampoos and lotions, toilet paper tubes, containers, and metal coffee cans around the house, turn them into useful items for your organizer.

The sleeves from toilet paper, glue the paper and connect to each other and make a box-base for easy movement of the organizer.

You can make a sturdy organizer for change out of plastic cut-off bottles of different lengths or containers. Plastic is durable and easy to maintain.

If you plan to use in a wet room or put in the cells not always dry and clean little things: nails, paint brushes, such cells are easy to clean.

Can be used in the garage for small parts, or for needlework. You can glue the plastic with "Moment" glue, if necessary, cover the cells with fabric.

It is important when creating an organizer with your own hands, correctly decide which small items need to be put together, so that all the necessary small items are collected in one place.

If necessary, make them different, and you can give organizers to friends and family. Properly organized space will make it easier to work and free up quite a lot of free space.

Photo of a homemade organizer