DIY storage basket

To store the necessary little things you need to organize your own, convenient for you, storage system. Purchased items are not only expensive, but often not suitable in size. Therefore, it is worth making baskets for storing things with your own hands. So you can save and create functional organizers in one style. You will find some interesting ideas for decorating such practical, convenient objects in this article in the form of detailed workshops.

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What to make a storage basket for?

For independent manufacturing of the storage system, only available materials are needed:

• cardboard;
• old shoe boxes;
• large plastic containers;
• textile.

Important! Using the simplest hand-made skills, convenient organizers for stationery, papers, toys, and clothes storage can be made from ordinary things.

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Master class: textile laundry basket

A simple DIY storage basket can be made in a couple of hours.

Dimensions of the finished basket:

• girth - 1 m;
• height - 55 cm;
• bottom diameter - 31 cm;
• cap diameter - 32 cm.

Prepare for work:

• metal mesh 110 cm;
• two pieces of linen fabric 136 cm;
• cardboard 32 * 32cm;
• wire cutters, sewing machine, threads, scissors.

Operating procedure:

1. Fold the mesh into the pipe, secure the edges with wire.
2. Sew an outer fabric cover measuring 62 * 102 cm.
3. Cut circles of 32 cm diameter from cardboard and fabric for the lid and bottom of the basket.
4. Sew the bottom and walls, put on the frame.
5. Similarly, make the inside of the basket.
6. Cover the cardboard with cloth, overcast.
7. From a rectangular flap, make a handle, sew to the basket lid.

It turns out a very light basket for the bathroom. Fabric covers can be removed and washed if necessary.

Important! Decorate the outside of the basket with a pattern printed through a stencil - it will be more original, more suitable for the style of your bathroom.

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Workshop: newspaper chest

Amazingly beautiful, openwork boxes, caskets are woven from rolled up paper strips. The paper vine is painted with color, paints, varnished, and it can not be distinguished from the traditional.

Try to make do-it-yourself clothing boxes in this technique:

1. Roll paper into strips and roll them into a 2 mm thick tube.
2. Cut out the bottom part from cardboard. Pierce the side edges with an awl, insert the vine into the holes.
3. Braid racks, bending and stretching one under the other.
4. Then weave the walls of the box staggered.
5. Having finished the edge, season, cut off the ends.
6. Similarly, weave the lid of the chest, increasing the size of the cardboard part.
7. Assemble the lid and basket.
8. Make loops from a rod or rope.

It turned out a woven chest in a rustic style.

Important! It is convenient to store jewelry, materials for creativity, paper, underwear.

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How to make cardboard boxes for a cabinet?

It is inconvenient to store things on the deep shelves of cabinets, so make boxes for the cabinet with your own hands:

1. Take the finished boxes of paper, diapers.
2. Cover them inside and out with cloth, paper or self-adhesive tape.
3. Make handles on the sides of the box so that it can be easily removed from the shelf.

To store socks and underwear should make a separate organizer:

1. Make a wide box of cardboard, the size of a box for linen.To do this, remove the dimensions and transfer to thick cardboard.
2. Glue all parts with strips of paper and PVA glue.
3. Cut small pieces of cardboard for the partitions inside the organizer. Secure them also with paper tape.
4. Dry and decorate the box with a cloth or paper.

Such a box of clothes can be sewn from fabric.

Important! Attach labels to the boxes with a description of what lies here, then the search for the right thing will not drag on for long.

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Textile box for clothes

For storing winter clothes, blankets and pillows, sew a box-case for clothes with your own hands in this master class.

Prepare:

• long zipper;
• fabric and slanting inlay;
• scissors, threads, sewing machine.

Important! The dimensions of a standard bag are 30 * 25 * 15 cm.

Operating procedure:

1. Make a pattern and transfer it to the fabric. Cut out details considering seam allowances.
2. Connect the walls and the bottom, sheathing the edge with an oblique collar.
3. Sew the zipper and pen.

Important! You can make transparent PVC inserts to see what is inside the box.

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Complicated Model

There is another way to make DIY storage boxes.

It differs from others in that it does not have to sew and cut much. A box is made of 2 pieces of fabric:

1. Mark 5 squares on a piece of fabric by connecting them to a cross.
2. Sew the sides without cutting. Get a textile bag.
3. Tighten the corners by hiding them inside.
4. Sew the inside and connect the parts in the same way.

Decorate the soft box with applique and rags, and you will get a stylish item in a rustic style. Choose different colors for the inner and outer walls of the box, for example, gray and red - so the box will attract more attention.

Important! Such a soft box is suitable for storing stationery, linen, remotes from equipment, magazines, and children's toys.

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Stock footage

Do-it-yourself storage basket made of cloth or cardboard is not inferior to the purchased one. A homemade organizer will not only carefully keep things from dust, it will decorate the room and give it a style.